Mental Block this Sunday Afternoon

Question

Dear Members of this group,
If I am creating multiple instances of a button called buy on
a movie (e.g.
buy1 and buy2) and giving each one a different name. How do I
get the name
of the instance clicked? If I use the code below I get the
name of the
original button not the instance name. So easy I presume that
I am
embarrassed asking the group.
Buy.onPress = function() {
trace(this._name);
Thanks.
Gerry.

Answer 1

Rothrock,
Thanks for the clarification. I am now much clearer. You have
enlightened me
this Sunday. Thanks again.
Gerry
"Rothrock" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Well what you are saying isn't making any sense. So yeah
that is probably
> it.
>
> If you have:
>
> Buy.onPress=function....
>
> Then that means you have some object with the instance
name of "Buy" and
> you
> are telling it to give you the name of itself when you
press it. That is
> why it
> is telling you its instance name. I think you might be
confusing library
> name
> with instance name a little bit here?
>
> There is no way that with that code you are doing
anything with something
> called Buy1 and/or Buy2. If you want to work with Buy1
and Buy2 then you
> need
> to define event handlers for the events on those
buttons.
>
> There are several ways to do what you are asking. I
would probably do
> something like this:
>
> Buy1.onPress=sayMyName;
> Buy2.onPress=sayMyName;
>
> function sayMyName(){
> trace("Pressed: "+this._name);
> switch(this._name){
> case "Buy1":
> // do stuff for Buy1 press
> break;
> case "Buy2":
> // do stuff for Buy2 press;
> break;
> default:
> trace("I don't know what you pressed.")
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
>