Syntax for calling on variable movie slip within its parent

Question

I know my syntax is wrong based on the error I am getting, but I can't figure out any other way to do this:
Code:
var menuButtons:Array=["home","liveIntense","liveAblaze","liveBright","liveClean","about","co ntact","shirts","soaps","stickers","blog"];
for (var i:uint=0; i<menuButtons.length; i++) {
          addButtonListeners(menuButtons[i],menuButtons_mc,clickF);
function addButtonListeners(buttonName:String,buttonParent:MovieClip,clickFunction:Function):void {
          var button= new buttonParent_mc();
          buttonParent.addChild(button);
          button.x=buttonParent.this[buttonName+"_btn"].x;
          button.y=buttonParent.this[buttonName+"_btn"].y;
          buttonParent.this[buttonName+"_btn"].visible=false;
Output:
1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before this.
I know the issue is here: buttonParent.this[buttonName+"_btn"].x
how can I call on moveiclips with different names that are within anothe movie clip?
Thanks!

Answer 1

use:
var menuButtons:Array=["home","liveIntense","liveAblaze","liveBright","li veClean","about","contact","shirts","soaps","stickers","blog"];
for (var i:uint=0; i<menuButtons.length; i++) {
          addButtonListeners(menuButtons[i],menuButtons_mc,clickF);
function addButtonListeners(buttonName:String,buttonParent:MovieClip,clickFunc tion:Function):void {
          var button= new buttonParent_mc();
          buttonParent.addChild(button);
          button.x=buttonParent[buttonName+"_btn"].x;
          button.y=buttonParent[buttonName+"_btn"].y;
          buttonParent[buttonName+"_btn"].visible=false;