Arrays best practise

programming flash
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Hi

I’ve been using the code listed below for a few projects now. I got the code from the help of this forum but I remember at the time the guy who helped me said it was more of a hack.

Because its worked for me I’ve just continued to use it but on a recent project when I’m using it to provide the paths to a URLRequest it seems not quite 100% solid.

What is the best way of doing this? Am I right in using arrays and for loops to provide items with event listeners? Its seems efficient to me.

Using my simple code as an example if you had ten buttons on the stage that you wanted to do something individual to that particular button how would you do it without using OOP. (not that advanced yet)

Any help / advise will be very much appreciated.


title.text = "Which button are you going to press?";

var buttonArray:Array = new Array();
buttonArray =
[
btn1,
btn2,
btn3,
btn4   
];

var textTitles:Array =  new Array();
textTitles = 
[
"You pressed button one",
"You pressed button two",
"You pressed button three",
"You pressed button four"
 ];

for (var i:int = 0; i<buttonArray.length; i++)
{
	buttonArray*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);
}

function buttonClicked (event:MouseEvent):void
{
	title.text = textTitles[buttonArray.indexOf(event.target)];
}