When starting in AS2, I found it difficult to make an array of objects after creating my own class. Hopefully, this little tutorial will make it easier for others.
I spent eight hours trying to figure this out initially. To me, actionscript handles this a little differently from other programming languages.
Basically, we will create a small class, then create an object with that class, and load that object into an array.
First, we create our class. Remember, to create a class, you have to do it from a separate actionscript file.
//in testclass.as
class testClass
{
//Establishes the first variable in your testClass
public var first: String;
}
Now, here is the heavily commented code that should be in your main actionscript file.
//Import your unique class--testClass
import testClass;
//create tC object from your test class
//create an array to hold the objects
var theArray:Array = new Array();
//create loop with i as the counter
for (var i=0; i<4; i++)
{
//create tC object from your test class
var tC:testClass = new testClass();
//assign text to the first variable.
//i included to prove that we are assigning different data
//to each object in the array
tC.first = "asdf" + i; //asdf0, asdf1, etc.
//push the object into the array
theArray.push(tC);
}
//Another loop with ii as counter
for (var ii=0; ii<4; ii++)
{
//shows that the array contains an array of objects
//and demostrates how to extract the values from them
trace (theArray[ii].first);
//asdf0,asdf1, etc.
}
This rather simple tutorial should prove helpful.
