multiple instances of a movieclip flash 5 1

[irate]

i have a one frame with the following actionscript to add movies to the stage

countMovOnStage = countMovOnStage + 1;
_root.attachMovie("astermov", "astermov"+countMovOnStage, countMovOnStage);

so when i test this movie it just adds a load of move clips to the stage over and over.

But lets say i wanted to randomly chage the movieclips attributes like so:


sessionNumber = Math.round(Math.random()*5+1);
this._x += sessionNumber;
this._y += sessionNumber;
this._xscale += sessionNumber;
this._yscale += sessionNumber;
this._rotation += sessionNumber;


how do i reference all the created movie clips?

something like this maybe?

"astermov"+countMovOnStage._x += sessionNumber;

can anyone help?
Or if you have a better way of doing what i want?
I just want movie clips to be created at different sives and colours and to fly off the screen in random directions...

thanks in advance

 

[wangbar]

You're pretty much there already...

Here are two ways to do what you want:

_root["astermov"+countMovOnStage]._x=sessionNumber

or

eval("astermov"+countMovOnStage)._x=sessionNumber

Paths to the clips you create are the major problem with using them, therefore you might find yourself doing things like...

eval("_root.astermov etc

or

_parent["asterMov etc

Both methods work well, apparently "eval" is very slightly quicker but I think the other, array-type, method is easier to read and use (and it's less typing!) so I tend to go with it.