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Marcelo Noronha
Marcelo Noronha

Reputation: 815

Naming buttons components AS3

How to name through AS3 buttons components?

I have 3 buttons components: a BackButton, a ForwardButton and a PlayButton.

I have named them through the properties panel, (where it says 'Instance Name').

But once I click on them and check for event.target.name I receive, always 'button_mc'.

How could I name the buttons?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 344

Answers (1)

Jason Sturges
Jason Sturges

Reputation: 15955

If you set the property id from the properties panel, you should see it via the name property:

Property Id

Here the switch block shows which button was clicked.

Button Switch

For 3 buttons named: backButton, playButton, and forwardButton the following code will determine which was clicked.

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

backButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
playButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
forwardButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);

function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    switch(event.target.name)
    {
        case "backButton":
            trace("back button clicked");
            break;
        case "playButton":
            trace("play button clicked");
            break;
        case "forwardButton":
            trace("forward button clicked");
            break;
    }
}

Upvotes: 5

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