Event Handlers for Dynamic Buttons

Question

Hi, I hope someone can help. I just can't figure out how to
solve this problem:
I am creating an number of buttons dynamically that
correspond each to a filename read from a directory. The problem is
I don't know ahead of time how many buttons (files) I will have so
I create them dynamically in action script. -- this much I can do.
What I can't figure out is how do I assign each of these
dynamically created buttons individually specific event handlers?
ie. I need to know which file icon you clicked on and then take
action based on that info.
for example: "folder" is a button icon I have linked from my
library - i name each instance "folder"+i -- what I need to do is
do something for folder1, folder2 etc.
for (i=1;i<numdirs;i++) {
graphics.attachMovie("folder","folder"+i,depth);
graphics["folder"+i]._y= coordy2;
// want to put an event handler here for each
graphics["folder"+i] button
I wanted to do something like:
graphics["folder"+i].onRelease = function() {
test_txt.text = i;
but each button I click on gives me i= numdirs (ie the max
number -- for example 6 if there are 6 files, I can't identify
which button you actually clicked on -- button1 through 6 all
deliver the number 6 to test_txt.text)
I hope that makes sense - if someone can take a swag at this
and point me in the right direction I will be very appreciative.
Best Regards,
Tom

Answer 1

There is other way to do that.. whenever you call a
attachMovie or loadMovie
function there is a return value that corresponds to the
actual movieclip
created on the flash movie. ie
for (i=1;i<numdirs;i++) {
var temp_mc:MovieClip =
graphics.attachMovie("folder","folder"+i,depth);
that new reference temp_mc is the newly created movieclip and
you can do
whatever you want with it, ie:
for (i=1;i<numdirs;i++) {
var temp_mc:MovieClip =
graphics.attachMovie("folder","folder"+i,depth);
temp_mc._y = 30
temp_mc.id = I
//even assign new funtions to events
temp_mc.onRelease = releaseFunction
function releaseFunction(){
trace("do something on the release event")
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> Tom