My main question is about paths - from the menu.as through the main stage to running a function on the other as file.
I have a dynamic xml menu. The menu is in a class file. Great menu but I’m trying to add functionality.
Right now, if I press any button or sub button, it takes me to another URL. Problem is that, instead of going to another address, I want that button press to run a particular function on the main stage. In an ideal world I would put all of these particular functions on a separate class file with each function making the stage do various things - i.e. add/remove particular children, move MC’s around, add swfs, etc.
Can this be done? Should this be done?
something like
//function on menu.as
function makeSomethingHappen(event.MouseEvent):void
{
//find the particular clicked button
var buttonClicked = _xml.item[e.target.parent.id]//this works - gives me something like //"about"
//I know this is a reach.
this.parent.buttonClicked+"()"; //????
}
What I’m trying to do is get the menu item id and use that item id to dynamically run a specific function with the same name sitting on another separate .as file.
Is this crazy complicated when there is an easier something to do instead?