Button roll-over animation with dynamic text

Question

So I have a button I want to be able to use over and over. When you roll over the button, it does an animation and has a dynamic text box in it. Ovbiously im trying to make each text different for each button. What would be the smartest way to go about this? Thanks,
Dan

Answer 1

create a movieclip, put a stop() in frame one and add your "up" graphics, textfield etc put everything in its own layer.  create another keyframe on that timeline and label the frame "over" and add new keyframes only on the layers that will change.  ie, if the textfield doesn't change, don't put a keyframe on its layer.  likewise, for a "down" frame, if you want one.
use instance names for everything in the movieclip that you want to control with actionscript.  ie, your textfield(s) will need instance name(s).  i usually use one textfield named tf.
then use:
btn1.tf.text = "test"
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,overF);
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,outF);
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,downF);
function overF(e:Event){
// if you have another textfield here assign its text
// likewise for other objects you want to change
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("over");
function outF(e:Event){
// if you changed textfields in the other frames, reassign tf.text here
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop(1);
function downF(e:Event){
// if you have another textfield here assign its text
e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("down");