Learning to prototype in Flash 10

[Alexander Maw]

I've been away from Flash for a while, think the last one I used was MX 2004 or something. Anyway, I want to do some prototyping in Flash 10 for my portfolio. It doesn't help that I've been away from it so long, but it seems very different, and a lot of my old stuff no longer works. I was wondering if anyone could point me to good books or websites for this sort of thing. Doesn't really need to be game tutorials, though obviously I want to do some heavy scripting rather than just animating.

It would be good if I could just decide I needed to learn how to do For Loops and be able to look it up. Right now I can't figure how to call the iteration number within the loop properly.

[Protector one]

I haven't ever dabbled in AS3 myself but I highly (HIGHLY) doubt they changed the syntax of for-loops going from AS2 to AS3. So,
for (var i=0; i<someNumber; ++i){
should work.

[Alexander Maw]

Originally Posted by Protector one

I haven't ever dabbled in AS3 myself but I highly (HIGHLY) doubt they changed the syntax of for-loops going from AS2 to AS3. So,
for (var i=0; i<someNumber; ++i){
should work.

Sorry, I was perhaps unclear. I wanted to call new entities for each iteration through the loop, so make a tile1 for example the first time through, then tile2 and so on (actually it would start at zero now I think of it) but I can't figure how to add the current value of i to the entity name.

[Protector one]

It's not pretty, but you can use an eval. Something like:

for (var i=0; i<someNumber; ++i){
  var obj = eval('tile'+i);
  obj.doSomething();
  //etc.
}

Is that what you want?