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[tziviak]

I have many movieclips -I have 10 movieclips for each type-and i have around 7 types of movie clips (ex. 10 red squares, 10 green triangles, 10 blue circles movieclips) now I want a different action to occur if any of the movieclips get clicked-but the same action should occur if the same type gets clicked (ex. if the user clicks on any of the blue circle-it should get dragged, if they click on any of the green triagles-it should get deleted and so on)

what's an efficient way of doing it except for
if square1.onclick=square2.onlick=function()...

if triangle1.onclick=triangle2.onlick=function()...


there's a prototype-but that affects all the movieclips-is there a way for me to make each of the movie clips-sort of a different category (object) so that way I can use prototype keyword-or anything else-to have the same affect? and not have to write repetitious code? (maybe some sort of inheritence to movieclip)

thank you

if you need any additional info-let me know

 

[wangbar]

A) Very keen to see the 'onlick' event that you propose become a reality - maybe version 8 will be 'Porn MX for touch screens' [LOL] (only kidding: my typing sucks too)

B) How about using prototype like you say but having a condition in the method that reads the clip's name and substrings it - if the substring is 'circle' it fires one action, if it's 'square' another etc...

Here's the idea working on the first letter of each clip:

MovieClip.prototype.onRelease = function() {
	type = this._name.substring(0, 1);
	switch (type) {
	case 'c' :
		//doStuff
		break;
	case 't' :
		//doStuff
		break;
	default :
		//doStuff
	}
};

 

[tziviak]

thanks i'll try it-but what is the substring function return the first character -and what 2 numbers do you pass to it?
thank you

 

[wangbar]

With 'substring' you pass it the character where you want the cut to start and the length of string you want to return - so (0,1) means start at the first character and cut exactly one character out (strings are zero indexed so the first char is char '0' etc...)

You could also use 'charAt' for a similar effect but 'substring' allows you to check for whole words if you want.