Dynamic menu

hi,

i am trying to build a dynamic menu. i want to asign a unique id for each button, btn1 = 1 btn2 = 2 etc… but my trace in the onRelease event returns undefined.

heres my code, i have ommited some so it is easy to read:



 linkcounter = 0 
function loadXML(loaded) { 
    if (loaded) { 
        id = []; 
        for (i=0; i<total; i++) { 
             
        // build menu 
        id* = linkcounter++; 
        item = _root.attachMovie("itemClip", "itemClip"+i, i); 
        item.onRelease = function() { 
        trace(id*); 
                 
            };