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FoxLift
FoxLift

Reputation: 433

AS3 Getting which movieclip clicked on

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.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 854

Answers (2)

eleven
eleven

Reputation: 6857

function GoToQuestionNumber(e:MouseEvent):void{
    var WhichQuestion:DisplayObject = e.currentTarget as DisplayObject;
    UpdateQuestions();
    trace("testing");
}

Upvotes: 0

Engineer
Engineer

Reputation: 48813

You need .target property of the Event object:

WhichQuestion = e.target as questionsquare;

Upvotes: 1

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