loadmovie on variable targets?

[podenphant]

Hi Guys,

I'm using the following code to load a variable target into a variable movieclip.

targetClip = "center"
targetSWF = "myimage.jpg"
_root[targetClip].loadMovie(targetSWF);

This works fine but I want to be able to load into childs of
movieClips like this

targetClip = "center.image"
targetSWF = "myimage.jpg"
_root[targetClip].loadMovie(targetSWF);

however that doesn't work!
Any good ideas for a solution?
//poden

[Mitya]

This might work- I think it's just a question of collective synatx when all the expressions are put together:

path = eval("_root." + targetClip + "." + image);
//I assume 'image' is another var?
loadMovie(targetSWF, path);

..the point being that evaluating all the expressions into one, compact var, might help the targeting. Just a thought.

[podenphant]

... that doesn't do the trick.

As far as I known the [] i used for concatenating strings/variables instead of using eval.

'Image' is a child clip to 'center'.

The problem is that I can't refer to child clips based on a variable.

targetClip = "center" // this works
targetClip = "center.image" // this doesn't work

//poden

[gparis]

targetClip = "center"
childClip = "image"
targetSWF = "myimage.jpg"
_root[targetClip][childClip].loadMovie(targetSWF);

have you tried that?

gparis

[podenphant]

Hi G,

well ... that should work!

The path to differnet clips is called defined from a VB application. So for architectural reasons I'd prefer if the path could be defined as 'simple' as absolutely possible.

I imagine that I perhaps could split the targetpath with "." as delimiter and then concatenate the path ... hmmm might work

thanks for the input
//poden