Creating Your Own Property for a MovieClip in AS3

[ropeGun]

Hello Community!

Starting to get my AS3 feet wet and have not been able to figure out a tried and true method I usually use for handling a series of similarly named buttons.

Scenario: I have a series of, say, 10 buttons (actually MovieClips that behave as buttons) that are named [selector0, selector1, ..., selector9] which all call the same function but pass a different variable "ivar" that is the same value of the number part of the name of that button. For example, if I click on the "selector3" button the "ivar = 3" is passed to the function, etc..

This is the AS2 code that I have used faithfully in this scenario which enable me to write a few line of codes to control all 10 of the buttons at the same time instead of having to write 10 seperate ".onRelease = function..." is as follows (under //OLD SCHOOL):

Now, I have tried to make this scenario work in AS3 with the following (under //NEWSCHOOL): but it does not work. I think that the problem is centered on the fact that I only pass the MouseEvent to the function but not the ivar variable. I have tried to pass two arguments to the function, but with strange error messages.

I suspect that since AS3 is more robust that there is a super elegant way to solve the problem that I am having: controlling a large series of similarly named, indexed buttons with one loop instead of needing to write out separate code for each button.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

-john

[Ned Murphy]

In the new selector function:

imgIndex = e.target.ivar;

[ropeGun]

Brilliant -- works as desired! Thanks NedWebs!

[ropeGun]

If I wanted to use buttons (flash.display.SimpleButton) instead of using MovieClips as buttons in the previous example, is there some property of a SimpleButton that I could place that "ivar" value into?

If I apply the technique above on a series of simple buttons, instead of MovieClips, I get the error: "Cannot create property ivar on flash.display.SimpleButton."

-john