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user3577445
user3577445

Reputation: 1

How to check which Button is pressed/unpressed with IF - Action Script 3.0

I want to check if four on-screen buttons are being pressed/released using 2 eventListeners and 2 functions, I know I can make each button press/unpress point to a different function but that leaves me 8 eventListeners and 8 functions in total, the CODE shown here I could make it work using keyboard keys instead of buttons (changing mouseEvent to keyboardEvent etc) but I need it to be buttons

All my buttons have different instances for each one, they are all inside another big instance.

Using keyboard I filled the (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE) with (event.keycode == EXAMPLE.KEY) so it worked perfectly.

but I need to know how to change (KEYBOARD_KEY_BEING_PRESSED) to (INSTANCE_OF_BUTTON_BEING_PRESSED)

Is there any way to achieve this? or I have to make the whole thing in other way?

CODE:

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mousePressed);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseReleased);

function mousePressed(event:MouseEvent):void
{

    if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonOnePressed = true;
    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonTwoPressed = true;

    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonThreePressed = true;

    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonFourPressed = true;
    }

}

function mouseReleased(event:MouseEvent):void
{

    if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonOnePressed = false;
    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonTwoPressed = false;

    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonThreePressed = false;

    }
    else if (I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT_GOES_HERE)
    {
        buttonFourPressed = false;
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1019

Answers (1)

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 8149

You're looking for Event.currentTarget, which is the object which most recently dispatched the event (Event.target is the original dispatcher of the event). So you check if Event.currentTarget is equal to each button.

Example (not a working set of code, but it will give you an idea of how to do this)

var btn1:Sprite, btn2:Sprite, btn3:Sprite, btn4:Sprite;
function mouseDownHandler(e:Event):void {
    if (e.currentTarget == btn1) {

    }
    else if (e.currentTarget == btn2) {

    }
    else if (e.currentTarget == btn3) {

    }
    else if (e.currentTarget == btn4) {

    }
}

Event.currentTarget documentation

Upvotes: 1

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