Could an array or two, solve this? - arrays

Question

I took over a project and I'm really new to as3! I need to fix an unresolved problem hopefully without starting over from scratch.
I have a contaner_mc, holding four puppet_mc's (puppet_mc1, puppet_mc2, puppet_mc3, puppet_mc4) and each puppet_mc holds four buttons (buddy_bnt_1, buddy_bnt_2, buddy_bnt_3, buddy_bnt_4).
I need the listener to know what button was clicked and from what puppet that button was clicked?
Object(this).contaner_mc.puppet_mc?.buddy_bnt_?.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_Click);
function fl_Click(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay(15);
}
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Event bubbling should to the magic:
container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, click_handler);
function click_handler(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (event.currentTarget == event.target) {
return; // the container is the dispatcher
}
const sprite:Sprite = event.target as Sprite; // just for a typing
if (!sprite) {
trace("event.target is no sprite, set break point here for debugging.");
return;
}
if (sprite.name == 'buddy_bnt_1' || sprite.name == 'puppet_mc1') {
// do something
} else if (sprite.name == 'buddy_bnt_2' || sprite.name == 'puppet_mc2') {
// do something different
} else if (sprite.name == 'buddy_bnt_3' || sprite.name == 'puppet_mc3') {
// do something different
} else if (sprite.name == 'buddy_bnt_4' || sprite.name == 'puppet_mc4') {
// do something different
}
}

Answer 2

container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var clickedObject:DisplayObject = event.target as DisplayObject;
trace (clickedObject.name); // name of button clicked
trace (clickedObject.parent.name); // name of the parent
}
I used DisplayObject so that the code would work with a sprite , movieclip, or any DisplayObject. So make sure you import if you haven't already :
import flash.display.DisplayObject;