Is this possible? For example, if I had 100 items named item1.....item100, could I add them all to an array using a loop? Something along these lines....but this doesn't work obviously:
for (var i:int = 1; i <= 100; i++)
{
myArray.push("label" + 1);
}
Luckily I only have 10 items, so I can do it manually, but I'm just curious for future reference...
Thanks!
The array access operator will let you reference properties and objects by name like that, so if you have:
myArray.push(label1);
You can use this instead:
myArray.push(this["label" + 1]);
Depends on on you mean by "items".
If they are properties of the current class use:
for (var i:int = 1; i <= 100; i++)
{
myArray.push(this["label" + i]);
}
You can do this even if the names of the objects do not follow any particular pattern but they have to be inside a 'container' (you will add all objects from the container to the array):
for (var i:int = 0; i < containerName.numChildren; i++)
{
myArray.push(containerName.getChildAt(i);
}
You have to get the link to the object instance to push it into the array, for example if the names of your text fields are label1, label2, etc. you can use the following code:
for (var i:int = 1; i <= 100; i++)
{
myArray.push(labelsContainer.getChildByName("label" + i));
}
