Several buttons and dynamic(?) EventListener

[chasbln]

Hi everyone,

I place 10 buttons on my stage, name it "b1", "b2", "b3",.. , "b10".

All these buttons should use the same function.

Is it possible to do it dynamically?

var a: Array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];

for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

button = "b" + a;

  this[button].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_b);

  function onClick_b(pEvt: Event): void {

  my_mc.play();

  }

}

Only the button "b10" plays the function.

Anyone an idea how to let all the other buttons play this function?

Thank you! C.

[Amy Blankenship]

Assuming all your buttons are Button symbols, and hence are SimpleButtons and they all exist at the point you run this code:

var loops:numChildren;

for (var i:int=0; i<loops; i++) {

     var btn:SimpleButton = getChildAt(i) as SimpleButton;

     if (btn) {

          btn.buttonMode = true;

          btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onButtonClick);

     }

}

//note the function is defined outside the for loop

function onButtonClick(e:Event):void {

     if (my_mc) {

          my_mc.play();

     }

}

[chasbln]

Thank you for your answers, this solution works, but I need an array in my project...

Now my buttons are called "bone", "btwo", "three".

var button: String;

button = "b";

var a: Array = ["one","two","three"];

for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

    button = "b" + a;

     button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_b);

     }

function onClick_b(pEvt: Event): void {

    my_mc.play();

    }

But it doesn't work...

[moccamaximum]

var button: String;

...

button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_b);

You can`t add en eventlistener to a string

[chasbln]

Hi mm, I tried this:

this[button].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_b);

and it works for the button "bthree".

But the other buttons won't work.

[moccamaximum · Accepted solution]

what you want is this:

for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

    getChildByName("b" + a).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick_b);

     }