Telling dynamic text to update

[katiekatie]

From my main timeline actions, how can I tell a dynamic text box inside a movieclip to update?

I have a movie clip with the dynamic text box called catalog. The instance name for the text box is catalogtext. On the main time line, I am using a loop to repeatedly attach the catalog movie clip. I want the dynamic text to show the value of i, and each time the movie clip is reproduced, increase by 1 each time.

Here is my current attempt:

for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {
container.attachMovie("catalog","catalog"+i+"_mc", i+200);
mycatalog_mc = container["catalog"+i+"_mc"];
mycatalog_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
mycatalog._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2;
this["catalog"+i+"_mc"].catalogtext.text = i;



Everything works fine, but the text box won't show the value of i. I must not be calling it correctly?

[flyingchalupa]

try:

for (i=1; i<=9; i++) 
{
     var mycatalog_mc = container.attachMovie("catalog","catalog"+i+"_mc", i+200);
     mycatalog_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
     mycatalog_mc._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2;
     mycatalog_mc.catalogtext.text = i;
}

Might as well keep the same reference to the movieclip throughout, no sense changing it to target the textfield... If you can position the x and y coordinates, you should be able to target the textfield with the same var.


Or just change the *this* to be *container*... As that is where the movieclip is...

[loadlearn]

Attach your .fla.