Table of Contents

mc._name

Description

The _name property specifies the instance name of a movie clip instance as a string. Because it initially reflects the instance name set in the Property inspector during authoring, the _name property doesn't apply to main movies (the main movie is most easily referred to by the global property _root).

Example

We can use _name to determine whether or not to perform some manipulation of a given clip, as shown in the Example for MovieClip.onLoad( ). The _name property can also be used to reassign the identifier of a clip. For example:

// Change ball to circle
ball._name = "circle";
   
// Now control the former ball as circle
circle._x = 500;

See Also

MovieClip._target, targetPath( ); "Movie Clip Instance Names" in Chapter 13

Table of Contents