AS3 Listener Help

If I understand correctly then to call a function when an object is clicked i would use the following code.

myObject.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,myFunction);

However what i actually have is an array of objects and i want to call a function with the index of that array passed in as a parameter so that i know which of the objects was clicked, what I would like to do is something like this.

for(a=0;a<100;a++){
myObject[a].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,myFunction(a));
}

But that doesn’t work, so if someone could suggest a way to achieve what I am trying to do that would be greatly appreciated.

Do you know about the currentTarget property of Events? It gives you a reference to the object that dispatched the event.

For example,

function myFunction(event:Event) {

   var myObject:MovieClip = event.currentTarget as MovieClip;

   // do stuff with myObject

}

If you really need an index as opposed to a direct reference, you’d probably have to store it within the object itself and retrieve it that way.

Thanks Moonkey, based on what you said I gave each object a private index attribute, a public index getter funtion and then used currentTarget.getterFunction to retrieve the index.