Flash AS3 Creating components on stage via Button - actionscript-3

Question

Sorry for my complicated questioning ;)
I've created several components on my stage (Slider, TextLabel, CheckBox, ...) with the addChild(...) method. Now, if the user needs one Slider component more (for another input), I want to give him a button "addButton" (already on stage) with an CLICK addEventListener. The function which is fired in the addEventListener should create a new Slider component on stage, e.g.
addButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,addSlider("slid1",20,160,250,0,250,30));
The problem is to pass the parameters to the function, i need to set the new Slider to several basic values, like position, width, minimum, maximum and so on....
Can this be achieved in this way?
thx,
edwin

Answer 1

There are several ways you can do this. The simplest way is to call your function inside a mouse event handler:
addButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addSliderHandler);
function addSliderHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
{
addSlider("slid1",20,160,250,0,250,30);
}
EDIT (to answer your comment question):
To position your new component according to existing components, you can keep a variable reference to the position in the script and pass this as a parameter. For instance, suppose you want the first generated slider to be at y:160, and every slider to be 40px more than this, change the script to this:
var sliderY:int = 160;
addButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addSliderHandler);
function addSliderHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
{
addSlider("slid1",20,sliderY,250,0,250,30);//Pass sliderY instead of literal number
sliderY += 40;//Add 40 to sliderY
}
Now, every time you use this function to create a button it will be positioned at y = sliderY, then it will add 40 to sliderY....so the first one generated will be at 160, the next at 200, the next at 240 etc.
Hope this helps!