2d arrays(?)

var itemsInInventory:Array = new Array;
var inventorySprite:Sprite = new Sprite;
var currentInvItem:Object = new Object;

addChild(inventorySprite);

var itemsArray:Array;
var numRows:Number = 5;
var numCols:Number = 5;

for(var m:Number = 0; m<numRows; m++){
    var invSpot:skSpot = new skSpot;

    invSpot.mouseChildren = false;
    inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);

    invSpot.x = 55.5*m;
    //invSpot.sk_name.text = itemsArray[m];
    itemsInInventory.push(invSpot);
    inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);
    //invSpot.name = String(m);
    for(var n:Number = 0; n<numCols; n++){
        invSpot.mouseChildren = false;
        inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);
        invSpot.y = invSpot.height;
        invSpot.x = 55.5*m;
        //invSpot.sk_name.text = itemsArray[m];
        itemsInInventory.push(invSpot);
        inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);
        //invSpot.name = String(m);
    }

}

your code is a little complicated but the nested “for loop” is a start. from what I understand from your code, the problem is that you create this “invSpot” in the first “for loop” then you define a position for it and then in the second “for loop” you give it another position.

the for loop should work like this: for x rows -> for each column(add a invSpot, give position and push it into an array to be referenced later)

for(var m:Number = 0; m<numRows; m++)
{
     for(var n:Number = 0; n<numCols; n++)
     {
         //create the object
         //add to your array
         //calculate x position = object width * n
         //calculate y position = object height * m
         //add to display
     }
}

hope I got this right I didn’t touch code for some time now

for(var m:Number = 0; m<numRows; m++)//first for
{
     for(var n:Number = 0; n<numCols; n++)//second for
     {
         var invSpot:skSpot = new skSpot;//create the object
         inventorySprite.x = 50; //container for the invSpot's x position
         invSpot.mouseChildren = false; //dont want to interact with children.
         itemsInInventory.push(invSpot);//add to your array
         invSpot.Y = invSpot.height*m;//calculate y position = object height * m
         invSpot.x = invSpot.width*n;//calculate x position = object width * n
         inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);//add to display
         invSpot.sk_name.text = itemsArray[m]; //text to be on the boxes. they all say empty.
         //invSpot.name = String(m);
     }
}

boberic said
It would seem like it should work, unless I’m goofing something up…

 invSpot.Y = invSpot.height*m;//calculate y position = object height * m

 invSpot.y = invSpot.height*m;//calculate y position = object height * m

just a minor typo.

var itemsInInventory:Array = new Array();
var rowOne:Array = [];
var rowTwo:Array = [];
var rowThree:Array = [];
var rowFour:Array = [];
var rowFive:Array = [];//THESE ARE PRETTY SELF EXPLANITORY
var inventorySprite:Sprite = new Sprite;//SKILL INVENTORY SPRITE
var currentInvItem:Object = new Object;//USELSESS..I SHOULD DELETE IT.
var skHeadSprite:Sprite = new Sprite;//SKILL WINDOW HEADER SPRITE
var fireTxtFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();//TEXT FORMAT VAR
/////TEXT FORMAT
fireTxtFormat.font = "DejaVu Sans";
fireTxtFormat.size = 16;
fireTxtFormat.color = 0xFF6600;

//var itemList:Array = new Array([sk1]);
//ALL ITEMS LISTED HERE!! THIS ARRAY WILL BE HUGE/////////////////////
var arrayOfItems:Array = new Array(sk1,sk2,sk3,sk4,sk5,sk6,sk7,sk8,sk9,sk10,sk11,sk12,sk13,sk14,sk15,sk16,sk17,sk18,sk19,sk20,sk21,sk22,sk23,sk24,sk25);
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//LISTENERS
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, makeInventoryItems);

//HEADER AND ITS CHILDREN/////
addChild(skHeadSprite);//ADD SKILL WINDOW HEADER
var skHead:skHeader = new skHeader; //HEADER CLASS
skHeadSprite.addChild(skHead); //ADD CHILD TO SPRITE
skHead.skTitle.text = "Fire Spells"; // TEXT FOR THE HEADER

/////FUNCTIONS!!!!!!///////////
function makeInventoryItems(e:Event) { //FUNCTION TO ADD ITEMS FROM ARRAYOFITEMS TO ITEMS LIST.
    skHead.x = inventorySprite.x;
    skHead.y = inventorySprite.y-skHead.height;
    skHead.width = inventorySprite.width;
    for(var r:int =0;r<arrayOfItems.length;r++) {
        arrayOfItems[r].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getItem);
        arrayOfItems[r].buttonMode = true;

    }
}

function getItem(e:Event) { //GETS ITEM FROM STAGE AND MOVES IT TO INVENTORY
//SHIT GETS KIND OF CONFUSING FROM HERE
    var item:MovieClip = MovieClip(e.currentTarget); //WHAT I JUST CLICKED ON IS THE TARGET.
    trace("array size before="+itemsInInventory.length);
//////            BREAK DOWN FOR FUTURE REFERENCE:
//////    SO I CALCULATED THE POSITIONS OF TEH OBJECTS BASED ON THE LENGTH OF THE ARRAYS THEY WERE IN.
//////    SINCE THE itemsInInventory array is a single array and 2d arrays aren't possible...
//////    I decided to nest arrays into it equal to the number of rows I needed(5). First i calculated
//////    the length of row 1 which should be 5(0-4). Row 2 should be 6-10. Why 6 and not 5? because
//////    when we add rowTwo to the array it adds another value to the parent array of itemsInInventory!
//////    So we have to skip numbers to keep up. so from there its on to row three where things got
//////    tricky. After row 3 The code doesn't behave the same way. The way we were determining that we
//////    should go to the next row is by the length of the previous row's array. If the array was above
//////    4 then add the next array to the parent array. The only problem is for row one...we calculated
//////    using row ones array length since there was no preceeding array. On row 2 we used row ones length.
//////    This was a mistake! But I will leave it as is...because it works. I should've, instead, used row
//////    two's array length to calculate itself. like this:
//////        if(rowTwo.length<5){
//////            stuff...();
//////        }
//////    then I use a secondary if statement like in rows 3-5 to determine if we need to add another array 
//////    to the parent...

    if(itemsInInventory.length <=5){
        itemsInInventory.push(rowOne);
        trace("array size after="+itemsInInventory.length);
        if(rowOne.length <5){
            rowOne.push(item);
            inventorySprite.addChild(item);
            item.x = rowOne.length*item.width*1.02 - item.width-1;
            item.y = rowOne.height*item.height;

        }
    }
    if(itemsInInventory.length >=6){
        if(rowOne.length >4){
            itemsInInventory.push(rowTwo);
            trace("array size after="+itemsInInventory.length);
            rowTwo.push(item);
            inventorySprite.addChild(item);
            item.x = rowTwo.length*item.width*1.02 - item.width-1;
            item.y = item.height;
        }
    }
    if(itemsInInventory.length >=12){

        if(rowTwo.length >4){
            if(itemsInInventory.length <14){
                itemsInInventory.push(rowThree);
                trace("array size after="+itemsInInventory.length);
            }
            rowThree.push(item);
            inventorySprite.addChild(item);
            item.x = rowThree.length*item.width*1.02 - item.width-1;
            item.y = item.height+item.height;
        }

    }
    if(itemsInInventory.length >=18){

        if(rowThree.length >4){
            if(itemsInInventory.length <19){
                itemsInInventory.push(rowFour);
                trace("array size after="+itemsInInventory.length);
            }
            rowFour.push(item);
            inventorySprite.addChild(item);
            item.x = rowFour.length*item.width*1.02 - item.width-1;
            item.y = item.height+item.height+item.height;
        }

    }    
    if(itemsInInventory.length >=24){

        if(rowFour.length >4){
            if(itemsInInventory.length <24){
                itemsInInventory.push(rowFive);
                trace("array size after="+itemsInInventory.length);
            }
            rowFive.push(item);
            inventorySprite.addChild(item);
            item.x = rowFive.length*item.width*1.02 - item.width-1;
            item.y = item.height+item.height+item.height+item.height;
        }

    }    

}

addChild(inventorySprite);

inventorySprite.x = -400;
inventorySprite.y = stage.stageHeight -stage.stageHeight +40;
var itemsArray:Array = ["empty","empty","empty","empty","empty"]; //just somethings to print on the boxes.
var numRows:Number = 5; //5 rows
var numCols:Number = 5; //5 collumns
trace(itemsArray);
for(var m:Number = 0; m<numRows; m++)//first for
{
     for(var n:Number = 0; n<numCols; n++)//second for
     {

         var invSpot:skSpot = new skSpot;

         inventorySprite.addChild(invSpot);

         invSpot.y = invSpot.height*m;
         invSpot.x = invSpot.width*n-1;
         invSpot.sk_name.text = itemsArray[m];

     }
}

well I’m glad is working

yeah. Me too. Now the only thing left to do is to remove the event listener that calls getItem(); function and add a new one to use the item…but where to put the removeEventListener…hmmm

oh Cool! got that working. Only problem is it does things in the order that the objects are stored in the array. Is there a way to address specific objects in an array dynamically? Lets say I have 5 objects in an array and they are all on the screen. If I click on object 3 and add it to the inventory I want to remove the listeners from that object, but how do I know what object I’ve clicked? I guess what I’m asking is…is there a way to dynamically trace what objects are being pushed? tracing by the objects name, i would assume..

My AS3 got rusty

so I will write it like this:

click object with event listener (getItem() function is fired)
access object with the currentTarget
do my stuff
remove listeners on that object

so I think you can put the remove listeners inside the getitem function, but it depends on what you need to do.