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Trying to pass movieclip name to function

I can't seem to get my script to recognize a value of a movieclip I"m passing to a function.

I'm using Actionscript 2.0.

See code snippet for the function.

This doesn't work. However, if I hardcode the actual values and just do:

_level1.flyouts.TheNameOfMyMovieClip.TheNameOfMyTextField = "foobar";

then the textfield will correctly read, "foobar."

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

import com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath.*;
var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.scope = this;
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
       
XMLPathFile = "text.xml";
 
parseData("mySectionName");
 
function parseData(thesection) {
	
	var myXMLNode = XPath.selectNodes(my_xml, "//menuitem[@id='" + thesection + "']");
 
	//get text from XML file, line by line
	for (var i = 0; i<myXMLNode.length; i++) {
		var tempMovie:MovieClip;
		var tempText:TextField;
 
	                     mySubNode = myXMLNode[i];		
                                          this["menuName"] = mySubNode.attributes.id;
		tempMovie = this["menuName"];
 
		// assign node data
		this["menuHeader"] = mySubNode.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
		tempText = this["menuHeader"];
 
		_level0.flyouts.tempMovie.menuHeader = tempText;
}
 
//**** SAMPLE XML FILE ****//
<xml>
  <root>
	<menuitem id="mySectionName">
		<menuHeader>Testing</menuHeader>
	</menuitem>
	
   </root>
</xml>

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blue-genie

hi, i'm not familiar with XPath that you're using, but i don't think thats your problem.
var myXMLNode traces undefined.
so you need to fix that first.

cacklebunny

ASKER

myXMLNode traces fine for me. In fact, if I trace tempMovie, it returns what I'd want, but I'm not sure if it's tracing the value as a string or a movieclip.

I think the crux of my problem is that I'm trying to pass a string name to the function and I want it to reference a movieclip of the same name. For some reason it won't recognize it as a movieclip type event though I've declared it as such.

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