onMouseUp returning name?

Sure glad to help you out. This really will serve you well.

Here is a little exercise for you. Get it to trace the number. So for example button0 will trace "0" and button7 will trace "7".

Really. This is worth learning. Even if you just have your buttons put on the stage manually during author time. In that case give each one an instance name like, button0, button1, etc. (Dont' start with the numbers, end the names with them.) And let's say you have 12 of them. Then use this:

numButtons=12;

for(i=0;i<numButtons;i++){
var curButton:MovieClip=this["button"+i]
curButton.onRelease=function(){
trace("Pressed "+this._name);
}
}

That says numButtons equals 12.

For all the values of i starting at zero adding one to i each time until it is no longer less than numButtons do the following. (Remember that we started with zero so if there are 12 buttons the biggest number will be button11! Why is it so hard to start counting at zero?)

Make a variable called curButton that will look inside this object (the current scope) and look for something that has the name of "button" plus whatever value i currently has. PS: This is expecting that your buttons are acutally MovieClips with button like behaviours, not actual buttons.

Take that curButton and apply an onRelease event handler to it.

Inside that even handler notice that instead of saying trace(curButton) we say trace(this). That is because we have changed the scope by applying the onRelease to a specific instance.

This is a technique you will use over and over and over again. If you plan to do much with AS it will be a very useful thing to learn NOW, not LATER! :)

PS: You might want to look at this thread:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=288&threadid=1267209&highlight_key=y&keyword1=under

I don't know any way. If anybody else has suggestions…

However, a ton of onRelease functions isn't generally a problem – if you name or attach your buttons sensibly.

var home:MovieClip=this;
for(var i=0;i<100,i++){
var curClip:MovieClip=home.attachMovie("someLinkage","button"+i,1000+i);
curClip.onRelease=function(){
trace(this._name);
}

That attaches 100 buttons to the stage (or where ever this is) and will have them trace their name.