# Setting a fixed variable for a dynamic button?

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**Created:** [February 16, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-fixed-variable-for-a-dynamic-button/216448 "2007-02-16T16:13:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-fixed-variable-for-a-dynamic-button/216448/1 "2007-02-16T16:13:20Z")

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Ok, i’m a little lost, so i’m reaching out to others for some help with this.

So i’m making a drag and drop audio mixer. there are some dynamic clips that are dragged into a “track timeline”. when the item is dropped on the timeline, i am placing two duplicate clips on the “track timeline”. one’s width is sized to the length of the song attached to that draggable clip that was dropped, and the other is a text field, printing the number of seconds with a “close” button to remove both duplicate clips from the “track timeline” if it’s pressed.

my problem is this:

i have the duplicate movie part within a “for each” loop for the draggable sounds. for each of the close buttons, i am trying to attach code that will close just the button it is placed on. but since the button’s path is in a dynamically created movie clip, i’ve used a variable to tell which clip it will close.

however it always closes the last clip placed cause that’s the current value of the variable. is it possible to set a fixed variable value for when the button onPress code is written? i’ve highlighted the troublesome part is red below.

any help or anyone else’s ideas on how i can do this would be greatly appreciated.

```
		if (this.onTarg == track1_mc) {
			if (_root.track1.length&gt;0) {
				_root.songNumber1++;
				track1[_root.songNumber1] = this+".mp3";
				trackAudio1.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
					var totalSeconds:Number = this.duration/1000;
					var seconds = Math.floor(totalSeconds)%60;
					if (seconds&lt;10) {
						seconds = "0"+seconds;
					}
					trace(seconds+" seconds");
					ph = _root.empty_track_mc.duplicateMovieClip("track1Holder"+songNumber1+"_mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
					ch = _root.emptyTop_mc.duplicateMovieClip("track1Top_mc"+songNumber1, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
					newNum = songNumber1-1;
					if (newNum == 0) {
						oldNum = "trackHolder_mc1";
					} else {
						oldNum = "track1Holder"+newNum+"_mc";
					}
					endNum = getProperty(oldNum, _width);
					nextNum = getProperty(oldNum, _x);
					_root["track1Top_mc"+songNumber1].clipTest_txt = seconds+" sec.";
					ph._x = endNum+nextNum;
					ph._y = _root.track1_mc._y;
					ph._width = seconds*8;
					ch._x = endNum+nextNum;
					ch._y = _root.track1_mc._y;

```

[COLOR=“Red”] ch.close\_mc.onPress = function() {  
track1.deleteAt(\_root.songNumber1);  
unloadMovie(ph);  
unloadMovie(ch);  
}[/COLOR]  
};  
trackAudio1.loadSound(track1[\_root.songNumber1], false);