FLEX Button event handling - flex3

Question

I have a scenario where i have 5 buttons which call the same method when clicked. These buttons are clicked in various conditions, but now i want to know how we determine that which particular button has been clicked, from the called method.
For example, i have been calling chocolate() method when i click the buttons, eclairs, dailrymilk, cadbury, snickers and kitkat. Now i will click anyof these buttons from the UI and i want to know which one is clicked. this event has to be handled in the chocolate() method only.
Please suggest me how can i implement this. I am using Adobe Flex 3

Answer 1

If you are not using the addEventListeners but are setting the click property in your buttons you could do something like that:
<s:Button id="snickers"
click="{chocolate('snickers')}"
label="snickers"/>
<s:Button id="kitkat"
click="{chocolate('kitkat')}"
label="kitkat"/>
private function chocolate(type:String):void
{
trace("button", type, "was clicked");
if(type == "snickers")
{
// do stuff
}
else if(type == "kitkat")
{
// do something else
}
}
if you are working with event listeners you could determine the buttons from their ids, for example:
<s:Button id="snickers"
label="snickers"/>
<s:Button id="kitkat"
label="kitkat"/>
// add your event listeners somewhere like in onCreationComplete
snickers.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, chocolate);
kitkat.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, chocolate);
private function chocolate(e:MouseEvent):void
{
// e.target is the component that has dispatched the event (a button in this case)
var type:String = e.target.id;
trace("button", type, "was clicked");
if(type == "snickers")
{
// do stuff
}
else if(type == "kitkat")
{
// do something else
}
}