By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:46:53 +0000

Try creating the “buttonclicked” as a method where you pass the MC that clicked it into the method. In Pseudo Code:

btn_01_mc.onRelease = buttonclicked(this);

function buttonclicked(theCallingMC:MovieClip)
{
this._name will= “the name of the MC that fired the method”;
}

Would that work for you?

By: Doug Maynard

Doug Maynard — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:38:10 +0000

This is a great little routine, but the related problem that’s killing me is:

I have a dozen or so movieclips that are all instances of a symbol.

An event occurs – like onRelease and and I’m now in the handler and I have no clue how to tell which movieclip instance got me there.

for example:

btn_01_mc.onRelease = buttonclicked;
btn_02_mc.onRelease = buttonclicked;
btn_03_mc.onRelease = buttonclicked;

All these buttons btn_XX__mc are instances of a movieclip symbol. How do I tell, in my buttonclicked function, which button did the clicking?

In my “really happy world” I would like to pass a parameter to my buttonclicked function from each button, but I can’t see how to do that either.

Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks
Doug