Dynamically created Text field inside of empty Movieclip

Question

Hi there.
My goal is to have a button that, when clicked, an empty
movieclip is created and a text field is attached to it.
I could write it easily if the newly created instance names
where hard coded, the problem comes with the syntax to generate
them dynamically.
Here's the code i have so far:
ActionScript Code:
button.onRelease = function() {
createText();
var count:Number = 1;
createText = function () {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("placeholder"+count,this.getNextHighestDepth());
this["placeholder"+count].createTextField("my_txt"+count,
this.getNextHighestDepth(), 100, 100, 100, 100); count++;
After that's done i still need to assign a text value to the
text field, which i have no clue on how to do it...
In other words I want to accomplish something like:
placeholder[count].my_txt[count].text = "my text";
I hope it's not confusing... Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

if your createText() function isn't working the way you want
check your use of "this" and "_root". if they're not the same,
you're not referencing your newly created movieclip correctly. and
your textfield depth isn't what you really want, but it should work
ok.