Using date to swap movie clip or images...

[thevezs]

I've looked through to see if I could find the answer to this and couldn't...please forgive me if it's already been addressed but how could I use the date to swap out a movie clip or image stored in the library?

Thanks in advance,

[5TonsOfFlax]

What does your question mean?

Do you mean use today's date to determine which library item to instantiate?

If so, and you have two library items exported for actionscript with class names "ThingyA" and "ThingyB", you could do something like this:

var now:Date = new Date();
var dayOfMonth:int = now.getDate();
var thingy:DisplayObject;
if (dayOfMonth % 2 == 0){
  thingy = new ThingyA();
}else{
  thingy = new ThingyB();
}
addChild(thingy);

This will put a ThingyA up on days of the month that are even, and a ThingyB up on days of the month which are odd.

[thevezs]

5Tons, thanks for the quick response....sorry I was a bit vague.

I have a file with a mc that shows a date and time of a program(e.g: "Starting Monday, Oct 24, 9/8c"). Once that date hits, I want it to change to another mc in my library that says "Sundays, 9/8c"....

[5TonsOfFlax]

You can easily compare dates.

var deadline:Date = new Date(Date.parse("10/24/2010 20:00:00 GMT-0500"));
var now:Date = new Date();

if (now < deadline){
  //deadline not passed.
}else{
  //deadline passed.
}

Ideally though, you'd pull the deadline from your object instead of hardcoding it.

Edit: whoops. Parse apparently returns a Number. Gotta make that a Date.