Possible:Booleans in Arrays?

[witherton]

I would like to use an array to A)define the Boolean state of a group of variables and B) check those variables. I have tried a bunch of different methods of doing this but get a bunch of different errors. Is this actually something that's possible? What would sample code look like?

[_spoboyle]

definately possible, several different ways of doing no different to anything else really

post code and errors for specific help

var i:int = -1

var boolArray:Array = [true, false, 3>2, true, false, false, i == -2, true];

trace("4th bool: " + boolArray[3])

if (boolArray[2])

{

          trace("3rd bool is true");

}

else

{

          trace("3rd bool is false");

}

[witherton]

Let's say I have this array:

var buttons:Array=[button1, button2,button3]

Instead of doing this for each index:

var button1:Boolean=false

I would like to do something like this:

buttons:Boolean=false

Then I would like to be able to do something like this for conditional:

if (buttons=true){trace ("true")}

[_spoboyle]

then you can just use buttons = false;

and

if (buttons == true) {trace("true")}

(note using single = is an assigment not an equality)

here is another demo that might help

package

{

          import flash.display.Sprite;

          public class Main extends Sprite

          {

                    private var buttons:Array;

                    public function Main()

                    {

                              buttons = new Array();

                              setUpButtons(6);

                              testButtons();

                    }

                    private function testButtons():void

                    {

                              for (var i:int = 0; i < buttons.length; i++)

                              {

                                        if (buttons)

                                        {

                                                  trace("button " + i + " is true");

                                        }

                                        else

                                        {

                                                  trace("button " + i + " is false");

                                        }

                              }

                    }

                    private function setUpButtons(len:int):void

                    {

                              for (var i:int = 0; i < len; i++)

                              {

                                        buttons = false;

                              }

                    }

          }

}

[witherton]

Ok, I've been playing around with this and it looks like you have to define the contents of the array as a variable first, then define the contents as a variable.

[_spoboyle]

that will work but is not the case if you want to paste your code here I can get it to work without the variables first

[witherton]

Thanks. This is the code:

var button1, button2,button3;

var buttons:Array=[button1, button2,button3];

for (var i:uint=0;i<buttons.length; i++)

buttons=false;

for (var j:uint=0;j<buttons.length; j++)

if (buttons!=true){trace()}