What I am trying to do is capture the name of the button which is clicked and add "hl" to it, which is the name of another movieclip already on stage. This works. Then with that modified name I want to set the visibility of that movieclip, ie popUp0hl, to true. This is not working. None of these MCs are created dynamically by the way.

I hope this makes sense. Here is some code. Line 2 is the problem

var highLight:String = evt.currentTarget.name + "hl";
this[highlight].visible = true;

Thanks in advance

MH

[JimTester]

m2244

Could that lowercase/uppercase "L" in highLight / highlight be your problem?

[m2244]

Quote: Originally Posted by JimTester

m2244

Could that lowercase/uppercase "L" in highLight / highlight be your problem?

No. I tried to edit that after I posted it but the change does not show up for some reason. Good eye though. I do not understand why this is not working. Damn it!

[JimTester]

Ok - let's take a small step back so that I (being a thicko) can get a definite understanding of your setup.

Am I right in thinking that you have 2 MCs on stage? One called "popUp0" and one called "hl"?
Is there an MC on stage anywhere called "popUp0hl"?

[m2244]

I appologize for the confusion here. I have a botton named popUp0 and a MC named popUp0hl. When the user clicks on the button popUp0 I want to take that name and and "hl" so that I then have the name of the MC I want to control. By the way I have multiple instances ie, popUp0, popUp1, popUp2, etc. So what I did was to create 2 arrays, one with the names of the buttons and the other with the names of the MCs and use the index of one to referrence the other giving me the corresponding MC for that button. But what I wanted to do was take the evt.target.name and add "hl" on to it. This worked but the this[highlight].visible = true; does not. Thanks man.

[JimTester]

Ok cool - I think I understand. I think you need to use getChildByName to get hold of the MovieClip and also cast it as a MovieClip. Try this:

popUp1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDownBtn);
popUp2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDownBtn);
popUp3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDownBtn);


function onMouseDownBtn(me:MouseEvent):void{
	//trace(me.target.name);	
	
	var btnName:String = me.target.name;
	var mcName:String = btnName + "_mc";
	var mc:MovieClip = getChildByName(mcName) as MovieClip;
	
	mc.visible = false;
}