Question

So, I made a for loop to get several buttons in my project. It’s a questionary, and I need to have a button to quickly select and navigate to any question there. I could do them all manually, but not only would my code be long and confusing, but also there are problems since there isn’t always the same number of questions.

So right now I have:

function SetQuestionSquares():void{
    for(var i:Number = 1; i <= TestProperties.QuestionLimit;i++){
        var QuestionSquare:questionsquare = new questionsquare;
        QuestionSquare.buttonMode = true;
        QuestionSquare.mouseChildren = false;
        QuestionSquare.x = NavLeft.x + (20 * i);
        QuestionSquare.y = NavLeft.y;
        QuestionSquare.questionsquaretext.text = i.toString();
        addChild(QuestionSquare);
        QuestionSquare.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GoToQuestionNumber);
    }
    addChild(NavLeft);
    addChild(NavRight);
}

function GoToQuestionNumber(e:MouseEvent):void{
    WhichQuestion = ???; //I don't know what goes here. 
    UpdateQuestions();
    trace("testing"); //Gets called correctly, so its working.
}

My problem is identifying which square was clicked. I need to have some way to grab the “e” (clicked) event, so I know which button the user clicked on.

Answer 1

You need .target property of the Event object:

WhichQuestion = e.target as questionsquare;