[F8] Quicker way to write these button actions

Hi there,

I have 30 buttons, that i need to code all the same, except for changing the number.

I'm sure you can do this by using arrays or something.

so my array would look like:

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var buttons = "1","2","3"...."29","30"; 


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And the buttons i'm trying to create would look like:

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button1.onRelease = function (){
        button1.gotoAndStop("selected");
}
button2.onRelease = function (){
        button2.gotoAndStop("selected");
}
button3.onRelease = function (){
        button3.gotoAndStop("selected");
} 


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But i want to achieve this in 2 lines, something like this

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['button' + [buttonVariable]].onRelease = function(){
       ['button' + [buttonVariable]].gotoAndStop("selected");
} 


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Can anyone help?

How can you associate a gotoAndStop action to button... I suppose these would be movie clips... Can you please verfiy and clarify to us...

As ever,
Vinayak

Hi all,

Except of the issue noted by vinayak.kadam, a general code to achieve this would be for example:

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for (i=1;i<=30;i++){
    //Assume all buttons are in the  _root (main stage) otherwise you have to provide
    // the correct target path eg. _root.Container["button"+i] (if they are inside a "Container" clip for example)
    var myButton=_root["button"+i] 

    myButton.onRelease=function(){
        trace(this)
        this.gotoAndStop("selected"); 
        // Your rest actions here..
    }
} 


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Best!

Kostas

yes, that's exactly it.

Sorry, yeah i'm using movie clips, not buttons. (my bad).

Thats ok! It happens.... anyways Kostas has mentioned the correct method above to achieve this....

As ever,
Vinayak Kadam