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Question

I am making a dart board game.  I have a target that moves around the board to each of the 82 positions a dart can land and a button stops the target.  Each of those positions is its own MC and is named as such. I also have 82 MCs of a dart animation that travels to all of the possible destinations on the dart board.  I need help with the scripting that will tell a specific dart MC to play when the target is stopped on a particular point. Thank you for your help in advance! I am using cs5.5.

Answer 1

There's not enough info to offer a solution, but here's some things to consider.  When the target stops, you should have some way of determining where it is, by a position number.    Figuring that out would require knowing more about how you move the target and how the button manages stopping it.
Since there are 82 possible positions for it, then your mcs that make up the dartboard could be named/numbered in such a manner (I'd recommend 0 thru 81 since an array might come in handy at some point in the design) and they could be assigned a number property equal to that.  Supposed your board mc's were named as such ... brdmc_0, brdmc_1, brdmc_2, etc... Then you could assign a number to them in a loop using bracket notation to target them...
for(var i:uint=0; i<82; i++){
    this["brdmc"+String(i)].num = i;
Likewise, each of your 82 dart animations could be named/numbered to match.. dartmc0, dartmc1,etc... 
So when you have determined which mc the target has stopped on, you can use that mc's number to tell the associated dart animation to play, again using bracket notation... in the line below, the "boardmc" represents the brdmc# that the target landed on, and you dart
this["dartmc_"+String(boardmc.num)].play();