Dynamically Duplicating Movie Clips

[Stinger]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Working with Flash MX, I have a movie clip (instance of btn_mc) that serves as a button. It reads from a text file (names.txt) for the values to display on the MC button. I'm trying to make the movie clip duplicate by the button height for each value in the text file. It seems to duplicate but it looks like they stack on top of each other and no values display from the text file. The following is the code I've written:
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btn_mc._visible=false;
nameData = new LoadVars();
nameData.load("names.txt");
nameData.onLoad = function()
{
nameArray = this.names.split(",");
numItems = nameArray.length
for(var i=0;i<numItems;i++);
{
btn_mc.duplicateMovieClip("button"+i,i+1);
thisClip = _root["button"+i];
if(i>0)
{
lastClip=_root["button"+(i-1)];
thisClip._y = lastClip._y + lastClip.height;
thisClip.name_text.textnameArray[i];
}
}
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Thanks for any help,

Scott

[Stinger]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Working with Flash MX, I have a movie clip (instance of btn_mc) that serves as a button. It reads from a text file (names.txt) for the values to display on the MC button. I'm trying to make the movie clip duplicate by the button height for each value in the text file. It seems to duplicate but it looks like they stack on top of each other and no values display from the text file. The following is the code I've written:
--------------------------------------------------
btn_mc._visible=false;
nameData = new LoadVars();
nameData.load("names.txt");
nameData.onLoad = function()
{
nameArray = this.names.split(",");
numItems = nameArray.length
for(var i=0;i<numItems;i++);
{
btn_mc.duplicateMovieClip("button"+i,i+1);
thisClip = _root["button"+i];
if(i>0)
{
lastClip=_root["button"+(i-1)];
thisClip._y = lastClip._y + lastClip.height;
thisClip.name_text.textnameArray[i];
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
Thanks for any help,

Scott

[pknair]

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">thisClip.name_text.textnameArray[i];</pre>

um, shouldn't that be:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">thisClip.name_text.text = nameArray[i];</pre>

also, do you have a dynamic text field named "name_text" inside btn_mc?

you may want to trace the value of nameArray just to see that it is actually reading the array okay. other than that, the code looks okay to me. what do you see when you try to load the variables?


hth,
Deep (just a guy)
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[Stinger]

You know, sometimes the most obvious things can get you. I looked over that a million times and that never jumped out at me. I guess that's where it pays off to have a second set of eyes look at the problem.

Thanks a million Deep!

Scott