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TreeHugger98
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February 27, 2008
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Best way to target a loader swf?

  • February 27, 2008
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In AS2 I created tons of projects where I used _level0 as my main menu and loaded other swfs (e.g. tutorial chapters) into and out of _level1. My swfs in _level1 would access variables such as dates, user name, and such residing in _level0. I am recreating all of this in AS3 using the loader class which works great until I try to access variables in my main swf. For example, menu.swf has a button that loads chapter_1.swf. This chapter_1.swf needs to access a string variable called userName in menu.swf and display it in a text field. In AS2 I would simply write user_txt.text = _level0.userName. How do I do that in AS3? I know it is probably very easy but I have not been able to target menu.swf. I have searched high and low for this answer but I must not be searching correctly.

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
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Rob,

You were very close to the solution in your first response. I added an additional parent to your code and it worked. I think that's what kglad was trying to tell me. The single parent was pointing to the loader itself versus the main timeline. So the correct code is:

MovieClip(parent.parent).userName

Thanks to both of you for your help.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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February 29, 2008
you're welcome.
robdillon
robdillon
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February 28, 2008
Show us the code that you are using that is causing this error.
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TreeHugger98AuthorCorrect answer
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February 29, 2008
Rob,

You were very close to the solution in your first response. I added an additional parent to your code and it worked. I think that's what kglad was trying to tell me. The single parent was pointing to the loader itself versus the main timeline. So the correct code is:

MovieClip(parent.parent).userName

Thanks to both of you for your help.
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TreeHugger98Author
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February 28, 2008
parent.parent also gives an error: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property userName through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.
kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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February 28, 2008
use parent.parent.
robdillon
robdillon
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February 28, 2008
Try MovieClip(parent).userName
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TreeHugger98Author
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February 28, 2008
That throws the following error: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::Loader@34cb061 to flash.display.MovieClip.

Is there a way I can cast the parent as a movie clip?
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