A for loop to run the same piece of code for lots of movieClips

[Lizzie.Fellows]

I'm using AS3 on Flash CS4.

Instead of having this:

DS1.stop();
DS2.stop();
DS3.stop();
DS4.stop();
DS5.stop();
DS6.stop();
DS7.stop();
DS8.stop();

I wanted to use a for loop to do it for me as I have about 100 movieClips like this that I want to stop. So I thought it I put them all into an array I could use the for loop to go through and stop them all. The code below is trying to do this but bringing up an error:

TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
at railMap_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

in the output window when I test it. But when I ran the trace it traced out each of the movieClips.

var DepotsArray:Array = new Array (DS1,DS2,DS3,DS4,DS5,DS6,DS7,DS8);

for (var i:int=0;i<DepotsArray.length;i++){
    //trace(DepotsArray[i].name);
    DepotsArray[i].name.stop();
}

please any help would be appreciated.

[Rob.Shelley]

var DepotsArray:Array = new Array (DS1,DS2,DS3,DS4,DS5,DS6,DS7,DS8);

for (var i:int=0;i<DepotsArray.length;i++){
    //trace(DepotsArray[i].name);
    DepotsArray[i].stop();
}

please any help would be appreciated.

Lose the .name bit, the values in your arrays are direct references to the movieclips.

Cheers,
Rob

[Lizzie.Fellows]

thats great worked like a charm

cheers mate!