Question

Say I have an object

var my_obj = new Object();
my_obj['key'] = value;

Is there a way to add an event listener to the value, like

my_obj['key'].addEventListener(Blah Blah);

I have a long(ish) list of buttons on the timeline (the layout is so different from section to section that just makes more sense to do on the timeline rather than trying to build the layouts via actionscript).

button1 = plays "frame label 1"
button2 = plays "frame label 2"

and so on….so I was just thinking of storing everything in an array

obj["button1"] = "framelabel1"
arr.push(obj);

Then I could just have one event handler for all of the buttons and use target to get the frame label value…

Answer 1

Yes, you can do exactly what you’re asking in the exact way you’ve mentioned, here’s an example:

var value:Sprite = new Sprite();

var my_obj = new Object();
my_obj['key'] = value;

So calling:

my_obj['key'].addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, _onEnterFrameHandler);

is exactly the same as calling:

value.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, _onEnterFrameHandler);