flash actionscript: I'm building an alphabet game for my daughter. Instead of building 26+ (for
the different phonics) symbols of the letters, I started by creating ONE
instance of a movie with a dynamic text field in it and I'm using code to
assign the value of the text field. Like:

LetterB1.LetterInside.LetterText.text = "B";
LetterC1.LetterInside.LetterText.text = "C";
LetterD1.LetterInside.LetterText.text = "D";

etc...

It just occured to me, after I broke up all the different recordings of the
letters, that I have no way of assigning the Buh sound to the instance
"LetterB1" and the Duh sound to the instance "LetterD1" etc.

I'm betting it can be done, I just don't know how. The alternative, of
course, is to start over and indeed make every letter its own symbol and simply
attach the proper sound to it manually.

I'd rather not start over. Help, please?

You can use the Sound class. I'm thinking something like this:

mySound = new Sound();
//
addSound(LetterB1,"B");
addSound(LetterC1,"C");
addSound(LetterD1,"D");
//
function addSound(clip,linkage){
clip.onPress = function(){
mySound.attachSound(linkage);
mySound.start(0);
};
}

Also, open up the library. For each sound, right click, and select Linkage.
Check off the box, Export for ActionScript. Then type in the name you want the
sound to have. In the line of code: addSound(LetterB1,"B"); LetterB1 will play
the clip with linkage id, "B".

If you are more specific on the names of the instances you want to make, and
the names of the sounds, etc. there may be a way to accomplish what you need
entirely programmatically with just one clip.