Question

I have 180 buttons in one Flash file and for all buttons I need a roll over and a click event, so the code I`m using is:

button1.onRollOver = function() { //on roll over change button color as white
  var color = new Color(button1); 
  color.setRGB("0xFFFFFF"); 
};
button1.onRollOut = function() { //on roll out reset button color to it`s default
  resetColorFunction(); 
};
button1.onPress = function() { //on click/press runs javascript function in page
  getURL("javascript:ButtonPress('button1');"); 
};

The problem is that I have 180 buttons, so I`m copying this code to each button, button1, button2, button3, button4 …etc until button180.

Is there any way to loop through all buttons with one simple code, function.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use eval in Actionscript 2 to get all your buttons tagged with minimal effort.

buttonRollOver = function() { ... };
buttonRollOut = function() { ... };
buttonPressed = function() { ... };

for (var i=1; i<181; i++)
{
   eval("button"+i).onRollOver = buttonRollOver;
   eval("button"+i).onRollOut = buttonRollOut;
   eval("button"+i).onPress = buttonPressed;
}

And there you have it all nice and fast.