Passing parameters to a function

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Hi,

I’m new to AS3, but have written a piece of code in AS2 which I’m now trying to convert.

Basically I’ve got a movieclip (“grid1”) and in that there are a number of instances of the same movieclip (“g1”, “g2” etc) and in that is a textbox (“ans.text”). The code I worte passes the name of the movieclip click and takes the content of that textbox and passes it to a function which checks it.

on the button:


on (press){
    checkAns1p(this.ans.text, this);
}

the function:


function checkAns1p(myAns, referer) {
    if (myAns == sub_answer) {
        //do something
}

This works fine, the problem I am finding is now that AS3 does not use “on (press)” I don’t see how it’s possible to pass this information.


function checkAns(event:MouseEvent):void {
    selectedAns = grid1.g1.ans.text;
    if (selectedAns == subAns){
        trace("Correct!");
    }
}

If I hard code it as above then it works, but I don’t want to have to do this 32 times. Is there anyway to pass “this” across as I did in AS2?