# Dynamic menu

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-menu/175887>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 18, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-menu/175887 "2006-01-18T16:12:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![g5604](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@g5604](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/g5604)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-menu/175887/1 "2006-01-18T16:12:47Z")

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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:

```php

 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*); 
                 
            };  

```