Using an array to add an element

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Using an array to add an element

Poster: cubefree
Dated: Wednesday July 21 2004 - 22:33:37 BST

I'm trying to use an array to generate a series:

Code:

var attnEG = new Array();
attnEG[0] = "Text ONE";
attnEG[1] = "Text TWO";

// then .... later ...

for (i=0;i++;i<attnEG.length) {
   aI("text="+attnEG[i]+";showmenu=blank;");
}

But I don't get two separate elements. I get "Text ONEText TWO" positioned together on the same line, nor does the subimage appear at all.

Anyone ever tried to build menus this way before?

Another possibility is also... which does work.

Code:

aI("text="+attnEG[0]+";showmenu=blank;");
if (attnEG[1]) aI("text="+attnEG[1]+";showmenu=blank;");
if (attnEG[2]) aI("text="+attnEG[2]+";showmenu=blank;");

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday July 22 2004 - 0:01:39 BST

Hi cubefree,

If the for statement posted in your example is how you're actually doing it, then it may just be a slight syntax error. In your example, you have the increment expression before the condition, but it should be the reverse: condition before increment. In other words this:

Code:

for (i=0;i++;i<attnEG.length) {

should be this:

Code:

for (i=0;i<attnEG.length;i++) {

Other than that, it seems to me that the approach should work just fine.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

Poster: cubefree
Dated: Thursday July 22 2004 - 17:14:48 BST

I gotta stop giving you these easy ones! Thx

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday July 22 2004 - 23:36:34 BST

cubefree wrote:

I gotta stop giving you these easy ones! Thx

<grin> The only reason I caught it was that I do the same thing myself. Don't tell anyone!

Cheers,

Kevin

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Using an array to add an element