Using input text to alter movieclip

Question

I have a number of movieclips which I would like to move when a particular value is entered into an input text box. The movieclips simply need to grow longer when a value is added to the input text. eg '10' would cause 'this.movieclip1._xscale += 20;'
The closest to an explanation of how to achieve this that I could find was here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/140884#140884, but I dont understand what an 'associative array' is!?
Any ideas anyone? Thanks, R.

Answer 1

Ok, well I sorted out that bit of script to make it work with my files and it worked, but I think flash is having trouble handling my script.. I am trying to produce a 'clock' where numbers typed into the text box play a single movieclip (as above), the problem being that I am using 60 individual movieclips, and therefore 60xthe 'if ' function code above, and I think it's having a problem as flash seems to get confused with a (seemingly random) part of my code way before I have added all the needed sections of code.
This is the code I am using (It's a very clumsy way of solving the problem but I am a basic as2 user!):
time.onChanged = function()
if(time.text >= 1201 && time.text < 1213) {
          line1._xscale += 20;
  line1._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 1213 && time.text < 1225) {
          line2._xscale += 20;
  line2._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 1225 && time.text < 1237) {
          line3._xscale += 20;
  line3._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 1237 && time.text < 1249) {
          line4._xscale += 20;
  line4._yscale += 20;
  if((time.text >= 1249 && time.text < 1300)or(time.text >=0101 && time.text < 0102)) {
          line5._xscale += 20;
  line5._yscale += 20;
   if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
   if(time.text >= 0113 && time.text < 0125) {
          line7._xscale += 20;
  line7._yscale += 20;
   if(time.text >= 0125 && time.text < 0137) {
          line8._xscale += 20;
  line8._yscale += 20;
    if(time.text >= 0137 && time.text < 0147) {
          line9._xscale += 20;
  line9._yscale += 20;
    if((time.text >= 0147 && time.text < 0160)or(time.text >=0200 && time.text < 0202)) {
          line10._xscale += 20;
  line10._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
  if(time.text >= 0102 && time.text < 0113) {
          line6._xscale += 20;
  line6._yscale += 20;
Where time.text is the input text box, line1, line2 etc are my movieclips (there are 60, but only the code for 6 here), and the number ranges are basically incriments of 12 as I am trying to use the time(12hr clock) digits as a number that I can then [ut into a number range that would play the appropriate movieclip.
Complicated I know but I have attached the file, which works if you enter 1234/1256/1250 etc, and it's a firly basic idea, but I think I am approaching it in the wrong way and am not sure how to work around it!