Flash help

[hxbro]

I've never written flash before but I'm trying to work through something and I'm stuck, it's either possible or not possible.

I want to create buttons on the fly, which are created from an xml file on the server (actually a php script which generates the xml).

The following code is running, but I need to put the button onto the scene which is where I'm stumped.

// create the buttons in the panel
for (loop = 0; loop < ids.length; loop++)
{
	buttons[loop] = new Button();
	buttons[loop]._x = loop * (170 + 10);
	buttons[loop]._y = 0;
	buttons[loop]._name = "DSymbol " + loop;
	buttons[loop]._url = "screenshots.php?id=" + ids[loop];
	panel.addButton(buttons[loop]);
}

Does the code look like it should work, panel is the scene as far as I can tell - is there anything else I might need to do.

Another way I thought was is it possible to copy a button in the script, so if I defined a default button then replicated it for each new button, then set the _x value which would be the same thing as far as I can tell.

Any ideas, I can't create the buttons before hand and just set them as I need them as it's unknown how many screenshots I'll have

[hxbro]

ignoring the bit above (I've still not fully sorted it but getting there), the code was never called as the xml file wasn't loading properly which populated the ids array, I missed off xml.ignoreWhite = true which meant the ids array was never populated.

I've found the trace command now which helps debug this sort of thing.

[ParkerDigital]

only just come across this post. So did the whitespace thing fix it? Yes, the trace command is invaluable for debugging things like this.