for loop help

[ralphnumbers]

I have nine movie clips (out1_mc,out2_mc...) that need to be invisible when loading the swf....
So, instead of listing off ._visible = false for all of them I decided to make a loop. Unfortunately I am having issues...

Here is what I have, which doesn't return an error. Any help with this would be much appreciated. Thanks!

x=0;
for(y=0;y<9;y++) {
x+=1;
var holder = "out"+x+"_mc";
holder+"._visible = false";
}

[krityx]

first of all you dont need x.
you can also use eval(holder).

for(y=1;y<=9;y++) {
    var holder = "out"+y+"_mc";
    this[holder]._visible = false;
}

[ralphnumbers]

krityx,
Thanks a lot. I'll give it a whirl this morning...

Why is the this[...] necessary?

[Ize]

krityx,
Thanks a lot. I'll give it a whirl this morning...

Why is the this[...] necessary?

Movieclips are properties of their parent (which in this case is this).
You can access properties of an object using that syntax.

_root.foo_mc['_visible'] === _root.foo_mc._visible