Question

So I have a code, shown below:

import flash.events.MouseEvent; 

instance160.stop();

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void 

{ 
instance160.play();
} 
button160.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);

and I want to add multiple buttons, not just this one. I figured out by trial and error that I couldn’t just consecutively list the instances, I also found I couldn’t just replicate the code and change the instance names. I just need to know how to go about having multiple buttons/clips. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

The “Event” class (which MouseEvent extends) has a property called “currentTarget”, which passes a reference to whatever object dispatched that event. So you can do something like this:

myClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie, false, 0, true);
myClip2.addEVentListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie, false, 0, true);
...
myClip9999.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie, false, 0, true);

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void {
 event.currentTarget.play();
}

Is that more or less what you were looking for?