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My mind is blanking on how to do this right. It's been a while since I have done much AS3.

I have a movieclip that contains 4 different states. Each on an individual keyframe. Content needs to be added to each of these states, however you can't do that because the state doesn't exist on the frame where you're adding content. A loop runs through multiple instances of this movieclip to add content to.

Simplified and shortened version (gets error because target "textFillArea1" doesn't exist when this runs):

function contentMedia ()
{
var textFillArray:Array = new Array(Lots of things in here);
var contentSelector:MovieClip;
for (var i:int; i<textFillArray.length; i++)
{
var textFillBox1:TextField = new TextField();
textFillBox1.htmlText = textFillArray[i];
contentSelector = MovieClip(contentPanel.getChildByName("contentArea" + i));
contentSelector.textArea.textFillArea1.addChild(textFillBox1);
}
}

Any ideas?

Well nevermind. I figured out what to do.

For a second I thought this was another bot thread.

snipelfritz wrote:For a second I thought this was another bot thread.

Nah. I just didn't want to work late again today. Figured I'd go out on a limb and see if anyone here knew about AS3 coding. Ended up figuring out a workaround though.