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    copied!<p>Hi again fellow Flashers :)</p> <p>My first question poised here at StackOverFlow dealt with this issue, I had an array which created a few different buttons. However I didn't know how to assign actions to them: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381178/how-to-give-dynamically-created-buttons-actions-for-each-one"><strong>How to give dynamically created buttons actions for each one - part 1</strong></a></p> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/87002/joel-hooks">Joel Hooks</a>, I was able to get my code working. However this time around instead of using an imported graphic as a Class from my library, I'm instead creating a movieClip by drawing a gradient*(didn't need to import a jpg)*. Now I'm getting another dreaded <strong>"not compile time constant"</strong> error again. I believe it has something to do with how I'm trying to determine the button instance that is clicked or rolledOver.</p> <p><strong>The Previous button creation <em>(working)</em> code:</strong></p> <p>for (var i:Number=0; i &lt; myXMLArray.length; i++) { navButton=new NavButton ; navButton.name="button" + i; navButton.x=i * navSIZE; navButton.y=navBtnY; navButton.buttonMode=true; thumbsMov.addChild(navButton);</p> <p>buttons.push(navButton); buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,handleButtonClick); buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,handleButtonOver); buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,handleButtonOff); }</p> <p><strong>The Previous listener <em>(working)</em> code:</strong></p> <pre><code>function handleButtonOver(event:MouseEvent):void { </code></pre> <p>var button:NavButton = event.target as NavButton; var id:Number = Number(button.name.split("button")<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381178/how-to-give-dynamically-created-buttons-actions-for-each-one">1</a>); if(button) TweenLite.to(buttonRolls[id], .4, {alpha:1, ease:Strong.easeOut}); cataText[id].defaultTextFormat = a12Green; cataText[id].text = myXMLArray[id].id; }</p> <p><strong>Current button creation code:</strong></p> <pre><code>for (var i:Number = 0; i &lt; num; i++) { trace("loop number = "+i); var blueGradient:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); blueGradient.name = "button" +i; blueGradient.graphics.beginGradientFill(bGrad, bColors, bAlphas, bRatios ,bMatrix) blueGradient.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 266, 40); blueGradient.x = i * navSIZE; blueGradient.y = navBtnY; blueGradient.buttonMode = true; addChild(blueGradient); buttons.push(blueGradient) buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleButtonClick); buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, handleButtonOver); buttons[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, handleButtonOff); </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p><strong>Current button listener code:</strong></p> <pre><code>function handleButtonOver(event:MouseEvent):void { var button:blueGradient = event.target as blueGradient; var id:Number = Number(blueGradient.name.split("button")[1]); if(blueGradient) cataText[id].defaultTextFormat = navFontRoll; cataText[id].text = myArray[id].id; </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>The current movie will only run without an error if the following line is commented out:</p> <pre><code>var button:blueGradient = event.target as blueGradient; </code></pre> <p>Because that is what is causing the not compile time constant error to come up. <strong>However by removing that line, all buttons are button1 instead of 2 buttons dynamically created named button0 and button1.</strong></p> <p>Any help or pointers here would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for taking a look at my code.</p>
 

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