Comments on: Passing Variables to A Function in ActionScript 3

By: xirclebox

xirclebox — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:23 +0000

@kcreation … Seeing as how this was written to help people who may run into this problem, I added your solution to the original post. Thanks for your input.

By: PupilsWithScruples

PupilsWithScruples — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:09:25 +0000

Hell yes. I’m just learning AS3, and so far all of the AS3 tutorials on button behavior I’ve come across tell you to write an event handler for every single state of every button instance, and then write a corresponding function for each event handler. Nice if you have wussy buttons that all do the same thing, but absurdly inefficient otherwise. Your post is the most graceful code I’ve found on the topic. Thanks!

By: xirclebox

xirclebox — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:47:26 +0000

@Steve, what this piece of the code is doing is checking to see if the index of the “b” array is equal to the index of “a” array. That way the button name (e.currentTarget.name) will call the corresponding value from the “a” array.

var b:Array = [home_btn, about_btn, contact_btn];
var a:Array = ["index.html","about.html","contact.html"];

If the target (e.currentTarget.name) is “home_btn” from the “b” array, the index is 0. When the button is clicked, it will correctly call the link “index.html” from the “a” array whose index is also 0

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:57:55 +0000

What is the conditional here doing:

if (e.currentTarget.name == b[j].name) {
…
}

I assume something to keep the value from always being the last in the loop? But I’m not sure what.

By: xirclebox

xirclebox — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:19:48 +0000

LOL!! AS3 requires a bit more coding than AS2. But to answer your question. When using “addEventListener”, you can’t pass variables to the function.

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By: Mihai

Mihai — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:47:16 +0000

This is soo complicated … couldn’t you just send A variable to A function???