ActionScript 3.0 :: Buttons In An Array?
Feb 16, 2011
If I have a bunch of buttons in an array, each with an event listener, and a user clicks on one, how do I find out which the user clicked on?
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The buttons appear on the stage, and I can click them. In buttonHandler, variable i always contains array size + 1 (in this case, 10). Since this is out of bounds, this doesn't work. I'm guessing it goes through the whole for loop first, and then starts adding event listeners with the newest i value, so this method doesn't work.
As for the function inside a function for the event listener, it's the only way i know how to pass parameters into functions from event listeners. I really don't want to not use an array because there are going to be a ton of buttons (well over 500).
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