for command and variable variable names

[JonnyPT]

i have a small 5x6 matrix of textboxes with var names in this scheme
11 means first row first column
12 means first row second column
34 means third row fourth column...

i wanted to create a reset function to set them equal to 100 times the row number

i am not very fluent in actionscript, but i know a little, i tried to fill in with psudeo-PHP style coding, and came up with this.

//create a var "hundred"
var hundred = 0;
//define function
function reset(){
//for each column
	for(y=1;y<=5;y++){
//set hundred equal to 100 times the column number
		hundred = 100*y;
//for each row
		for(x=1;x<=6;x++){
//set the variable that has var x as the first digit and var y 
//as the second digit equal to the current value of the var hundred... 
//in php ${$x.$y} = $hundred
			{x+y} = hundred;
		}
	}
}
//apply the function
reset();

needless to say...it doesn't work

 

[billwatson]

what exactly are you trying to do ???

have the values displayed in the text boxes changed or their x,y co-ordinates

or as monty python would say 'something completely different'

just cant tell from the question

 

[JonnyPT]

basically {[red]x[/red]+[blue]y[/blue]} is supposed to be the variable name
when [red]x[/red]=[red]1[/red] and [blue]y[/blue]=[blue]3[/blue] then {[red]x[/red]+[blue]y[/blue]} should equal [red]1[/red][blue]3[/blue]
then i want the value of the text box with that variable name ([red]1[/red][blue]3[/blue] in this case) to be set to [blue]3[/blue]00 (which is 100 times [blue]3[/blue] (the value of var [blue]y[/blue])

 

[JonnyPT]

it might be easier to understand this way,
the value of every text box in row 1 will be set to 100
the value of every text box in row 2 will be set to 200
the value of every text box in row 3 will be set to 300..
there are 6 rows total and 5 columns in each row

i could just put in code like this

function reset() {
     [red][b]1[/b][/red]1 = [red][b]1[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]1[/b][/red]2 = [red][b]1[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]1[/b][/red]3 = [red][b]1[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]1[/b][/red]4 = [red][b]1[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]1[/b][/red]5 = [red][b]1[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]2[/b][/red]1 = [red][b]2[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]2[/b][/red]2 = [red][b]2[/b][/red]00;
     [red][b]2[/b][/red]3 = [red][b]2[/b][/red]00;
     .....you should get the point
     [red][b]6[/b][/red]5 = [red][b]6[/b][/red]00;.....this would be the last one

}

but i want to replace that with 2 for() loops

 

[billwatson]

something like this then

function reset(mult){
	for(i=1;i<7;i++){
		for(j=1;j<6;j++){
			this["i"+"j"] = i*mult;
		}
	}
}
reset(100);

 

[JonnyPT]

didn't work,
posted my fla here

http://www.penguinpage.com/board/board.fla