Dynamically labeling a button ... some more

Question

Hello
I'm trying to make my button labeling code more efficient by re-using the same button over and over and having a "String" variable update with the appropriate button name.  The function uses "if" and "else if" to update the value of the "var txtVar:String" with the appropriate label depending on the instance name of the button just clicked.  Inside my button movieClip is actions that refer back to the txtVar variable to label the button. In this manner, when the movie is run, each button, though based on the same movieClip, should have a different label derived from the updating variable txtVar.
I'm pretty sure what I'm doing wrong is in the "if" statements.  I'm trying to use "this.currentTarget.name" to update the labels based on the instance name, yet when I trace "this.currentTarget.name" and then click a button, nothing displays.  I hope this makes sense.
Thanks for your help!
var txtVar:String = checkVar();
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.mouseChildren = false;
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.buttonMode = true;
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.mouseChildren = false;
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.buttonMode = true;
function checkVar ()
     if (this.currentTarget.name == "lgndOneBedroom_mc")
         txtVar = "One Bedroom";
     else if (this.currentTarget.name == "lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc")
         txtVar = "One Bedroom + Study";
function overFunc(e:MouseEvent):void
    e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("over");
function outFunc(e:MouseEvent):void
    e.currentTarget.gotoAndStop("off");

Answer 1

Yeah ... I blew it there. Sorry to have led you astray.  There is no clicking involved.  All I'm trying to come up with at this point is a dynamic way to label several buttons that are all instances of the same movieClip.  This will keep me from ultimately having to make about thirty different buttons.  I can reuse the same movieClip and just let the code provide the labeling across the face of the button.
Inside the button movieClip is this action:  "buttonTextField.text = MovieClip(root).txtVar;"  which refers back to the root timeline and looks for it's label in the form of a dynamic variable called "textVar".  Since all the buttons will ultimately call this same variable, I need a way to toggle the value of that variable depending on what button is calling it.  I thought maybe one way to do this was to set the textVar equal to a function that can switch out it's value and I tried to use the buttons instance name to indicate which value of txtVar was appropriate.  Hopefully that makes more sense.  For some reason these esoteric concepts are hard for me to put into words.
Like you said, I need to define what this.currentTarget is somehow.  Both "lgndOneBedroom_mc" and  "lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc" are the instance names of the only two buttons I have on the stage right now.  Here's the oringal idea I had that obviously didn't work:
var txtVar:String = checkVar();
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.mouseChildren = false;
this.lgndOneBedroom_mc.buttonMode = true;
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outFunc);
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.mouseChildren = false;
this.lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc.buttonMode = true;
function checkVar ()
    if (this.currentTarget.name == "lgndOneBedroom_mc")
        txtVar = "One Bedroom";
    else if (this.currentTarget.name == "lgndOneBedroomStudy_mc")
        txtVar = "One Bedroom + Study";