AS3 Array Buttons Nested

Question

I have a list of buttons:

agreeButton disagreeButton container.clickButton1 container.clickButton2

Container is another movieclip and inside of it are the last 2 buttons.

How can I put it in array and have all the same listeners applied to each of them?

var buttonArray:Array = new Array("agreeButton", "disagreeButton", "container.clickButton1", "container.clickButton2");
for (var i:int=0; i<buttonArray.length; i++) {
    this[buttonArray[i]].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, mouseRollOver);
    this[buttonArray[i]].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, mouseRollOut);
    this[buttonArray[i]].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);
}

Jude Cooray · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 15:58:05Z

2

Keep a reference to the buttons and add them to an array.

var agreeButton:Button = new Button();
var disagreeButton:Button = new Button();

//... Code that will add the above instantiated buttons to the canvas

var buttonArray:Array = new Array(agreeButton, disagreeButton);

for (var i:int = 0; i < buttonArray.length; i++) {    
buttonArray[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);
}


private function mouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
    Alert.show("Boom!");
}

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 15:58

Jude Cooray

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Anderson Over a year ago

Just a quick question, what about the "container.clickButton1", "container.clickButton2" buttons? They are in a movieclip named "container". How do you declare the variable in a movieclip?

Anderson Over a year ago

Also I used SimpleButton instead.

Jude Cooray Over a year ago

It doesn't matter where the buttons are as long as you have a reference to them from the code. Declare the buttons, add the event listeners and then add them to the container. Got it? :)

brenjt · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 16:41:28Z

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I would make a button class that is extended by each of these buttons. In the button class you add eventListeners.

Example:

forgive me if there are things wrong with this, I haven't coded in AS3 for a while.

class MyButton extends Button
{
    public function MyButton()
    {
        this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, mouseRollOver);
        this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, mouseRollOut);
        this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);
    }
    //... Add mouseRollOver, mouseRollOut, mouseClick methods
}

Your Individual Buttons

class DisagreeButton extends MyButton
{
    public function DisagreeButton()
    {

    } 
}

class AgreeButton extends MyButton
{
    public function AgreeButton()
    {

    } 
}

Once you instantiate the buttons all the event listeners will be applied to each.

edited Apr 11, 2012 at 16:41

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 15:54

brenjt

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2 Comments

Anderson Over a year ago

Can you give an example please?

brenjt Over a year ago

@Anderson I added a rough example of what I was referring to

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