I ♥ caller

Since I posted about the wonderfulness of the Delegate class for AS2 I've learned a little bit more useful info I'd like to pass on. As you may remember, the Delegate class is very useful for managing the scope of your code. The biggest problem I still ran into though was passing and accessing variables from my the custom handlers I made with the Delegate class. Thankfully , there is an easy way to pass variables. Simply add it as an attribute to the event handler.
E.G.

//import the Delegate class
import mx.utils.Delegate;

//add a variable to pass to your handler
something.onPress = Delegate.create(this, someHandler);
something.onPress.myVariable = "pass me";

//now to access that variable use caller
function someHandler(){
var passedVar= arguments.caller.myVariable;
trace(passedVar);
}

Voila! Now you can enjoy the satisfaction of passing variables to your custom handlers.