User Guide

54 ActionScript language elements

Parameters

expression:Object - The name of a variable, property, object, or movie clip to retrieve. This

parameter can be either a String or a direct reference to the object instance (i.e use of

quotation marks (" ") is optional.)

Returns

Object - A value, reference to an object or movie clip, or undefined .

Example

The following example uses

eval() to set properties for dynamically named movie clips. This

ActionScript sets the

_rotation property for three movie clips, called square1_mc,

square2_mc, and square3_mc.

for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {

setProperty(eval("square"+i+"_mc"), _rotation, 5);

}

You can also use the following ActionScript:

for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {

this["square"+i+"_mc"]._rotation = -5;

}