Can't reference a child with a variable instance name [syntax]

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I want to generate villagers for my game and then organize them into a list but I'm having a bit of difficulty, here is what it's supposed to look like and here is what it actually looks like. The code for generating kinsmen is:

var k = new kinsmen  ;
menuArea.kinsmenDivider.addChild(k);
totalKinsmen++;
totalKinsmenAlive++;
k.name = "kinsmen" + totalKinsmen;

The code used for sorting them is:

for (var i:int = 1; i < (totalKinsmen+1); i++) {
if (menuArea.kinsmenDivider.getChildByName("kinsmen"+i) !=null) {
    menuArea.kinsmenDivider["kinsmen" + i].y = menuItemCount * 107.5;
    menuItemCount++;}}

That should look through the ID's of every kinsmen that's ever existed and when it finds the ID of one that's alive it should give it a place in the menu and continue going through the other IDs.

trace ("kinsmen" + totalKinsmen);
trace (menuArea.kinsmenDivider.getChildByName("kinsmen"+i));

Both always have the same values in my tests. The debugger posts the following error during runtime:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.

When I remove ["kinsmen" + i] it stops giving errors and the entire menu moves down each time a new kinsmen is generated so I know that's the part causing the issue but I don't know why or how to fix it and would appreciate help, all the above code is in my document class. I only started coding AS3 a few days ago so I'm still a bit shaky. Cheers for reading.

loxxy · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-26 06:00:09Z

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You access the clip correctly everywhere except

menuArea.kinsmenDivider["kinsmen" + i].y

shouldn't it be :

menuArea.kinsmenDivider.getChildByName("kinsmen" + i).y

answered Jan 26, 2013 at 6:00

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Ashton Over a year ago

Works perfectly, thank you ever so much. I didn't think of that one.

loxxy Over a year ago

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