ActionScript 3.0 :: Referring To An Object Outside Of The Function In A Listener?

May 31, 2011

I have four buttons named button1, button2, button3 and button4.  I want the code to trace the name of the button when the button is clicked.  This is just an eample of what I'm doing in my project.  The project itself is too convoluted to put up and explain.  My problem that needs to be solved is, how do I refer to the button in the Function?
 
var c:int;
var buttonName:String;
for (c = 1;c < 5;c++) {
buttonNum = "button"+c;

[Code]....
 
When I say "trace(this)", the code doesn't know what "this" is because I've taken this[buttonNum] out of the loop by having to put it in a Function.  How do I call to the object that is in the listener that called the Function?

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