# Script for creating dynamic buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-creating-dynamic-buttons/6774>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 16, 2002, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-creating-dynamic-buttons/6774 "2002-10-16T08:55:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![kamelus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@kamelus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kamelus)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-creating-dynamic-buttons/6774/1 "2002-10-16T08:55:28Z")

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here is my contribution with this script you can create buttons dynamically and remove them  
(howmany) is the variable of the number of the buttons to create.

function makebuttons(){  
// if we have buttons created at first time we remove them to recreate others ones

```
if(_global.createdClips.length&gt;0){	
	clearbuttons();	
	}
	addbuttons(homany);

```

}

function addbuttons() {  
// we create an array to save the buttons references  
\_global.createdClips = new Array();

for(i=1;i\<=howmany;i++){  
\_root.count++;  
myButton = this.createEmptyMovieClip(“but”+i,i+\_global.maxSeed)  
myButton.lineStyle(1)  
myButton.beginFill(0x336699)  
myButton.lineTo(22,0)  
myButton.lineTo(22,20)  
myButton.lineTo(0,20)  
myButton.lineTo(0,0)  
this[“but”+i].\_x = i_myButton.\_width_1  
myButton.createTextField(“txt”+i,i+10);  
myButton[“but”+i].text=i;

// when the movieclip is created we save the reference in the array using this syntax

\_global.createdClips.push(myButton);

//=====================we create another movie to make a 3Doutline to the buttonD========================

myButton = this.createEmptyMovieClip(“contour”+i,i+\_global.maxSeed+20)  
myButton.lineStyle(1.75,0x999999)  
myButton.lineTo(22,0)  
myButton.lineTo(22,20)  
myButton.lineStyle(1.75,0xffffff)  
myButton.lineTo(0,20)  
myButton.lineTo(0,0)  
this[“contour”+i].\_x = i_myButton.\_width_1

```
	_global.createdClips.push(myButton); 

```

//=============we create a textfield to store the caption ====================================  
myButton.createTextField(“text”+i, 0, 3, 1, 18, 20);  
myButton[“text”+i].multiline = false;  
myButton[“text”+i].wordWrap = false;  
myButton[“text”+i].border = false;  
myButton[“text”+i].background = false;  
myButton[“text”+i].variable = “”;  
myformat = new TextFormat();  
myformat.font=“verdana”;  
myformat.size=“9”;  
myformat.color = 0xffffff;  
myformat.bullet = false;  
myformat.underline = false;  
myButton[“text”+i].text = i;  
myButton[“text”+i].setTextFormat(myformat);  
\_global.createdClips.push(myButton);

// we attach event to the button  
myButton.onPress = function(){

```
      //you place the code you want 
			
    }

```

myButton.onRelease = function(){

// you place the code you want

}  
myButton.onRollOver = function(){

// you place the code you want  
}

myButton.onRollOut = function(){

// you place the code you want  
}

}

}

function clearbuttons() {   
for(var myButton in \_global.createdClips){   
\_global.createdClips[myButton].removeMovieClip();

// we delete the reference of the movieclip removed from the array

\_global.createdClips.pop();

}  
}

that’s all  
i will try to ameliorate this code

enjoy it  
if you have any question post your comment