Dynamic Event Handling

[thebeige]

I haven't been able to find a definitive, helpful answer about this...

I'm loading several MC's dynamically using attachMovie. Now, these things are dynamically named, but I want to get the onRelease event of them. Here's what I have so far.

function importClips(movieClipArray)
{
xPos = 400;

for (i = 0; i < movieClipArray.length; i++)
{
linkName = movieClipArray[ i ];
newName = linkName;
_root._level1.attachMovie(linkName, newName, i);

newMovie = eval(&quot;_root._level1.&quot; + newName);
newMovie._x = xPos;
newMovie._y = 155;

xPos += newMovie._width + 15;

newMovie.onRelease = function()
{
selectShell(newName); // Does a few other things with the clip.
}
}
}

Since I can't discretely reference the MC's, I have to put the onRelease inside of the function (and loop) that attaches them.
Invariably, when I click on any of the MC's, the last MC loaded gets the &quot;selectShell()&quot; function call.

Any ideas on how I can get around this?

 

[oldnewbie]

What's this _root._level1 business?
And you shouldn't be using eval but associative array syntax...

Regards,

 

[thebeige]

_root._level1 is a way that i'm able to attachMovie().
the movie clips are loaded from an external library - the .swf that's loaded is loaded onto _level1.

eval is used because movieClipArray merely contains an array of strings.

anyway, all of that works. the movies are attached and they are positioned properly - the problem comes in with the onRelease stuff.
i merely included the other code for contextual reference.

 

[oldnewbie]

...&quot;anyway, all of that works&quot;...

...If you say so! But I've never seen _root._level1 used! And I don't think you're attaching anything on level 1...

And this modified version does work...

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/attach.fla

Regards,