Arrays are my friends, right?

Question

Okay, I've used arrays in the past, but I'm still very leery
of screwing things up. The code below is my usual long-way-around
the barn approach. I know that putting the buttons in an array is a
first step, but then how to get it to advance to the next numeric
frame is where I get nervous (every button points to a frame
starting on two, so button two points to frame 3, and so on). I
know I can use keyframes/labels but I don't want to have to repeat
the AS for each new keyframe on my AS layer. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

hey Mr.A! :) ok let see what we have here ... you just want
the button to advance one frame from it's 'number'. Guess I'm
wondering why you don't have them numbered in relation to the
frame, that would make it a little easier, ... but anywho lol!!
doesn't matter :) yes, put them in an array, then use a loop to
assign the handlers and the frame number using the loop index, but
we have to something a little 'tricky' here, because of the nature
of the incremented var in the loop, we need to store a reference of
the number at that point in the iteration. so to do so, I've
assigned a new property to the 'button' instance called 'frame'
then you'd use that property value as the correct frame number, I
also add 2 to the number of the increment to find the correct frame
number, because the array index begins at zero and the button's
number sequence begins at 1. that should do it!