I looked at the files, you could remove them if you like.
There are a few complications caused by the fact that you're using classes to control movieclips and you also have the timeline removing those movieclips. Now and then there will be an instant where the class code is running, but the timeline has removed the movieclip from the stage. That means it no longer has a parent.
I tried adding some tests to see if 'parent' was not null, but still there were cases when it would go wrong.
The sending events I talked about might be the easiest solution. In places where you are saying either enableLeft() or MovieClip(parent).enableLeft(), you would do:
stage.dispatchEvent(new Event("enableleft"));
and in the jim playable code you would have:
stage.addEventListener("enableleft",enableLeft);
The start of the enableLeft function would change from:
public function enableLeft(): void
to:
public function enableLeft(e:Event): void
Something else to be aware of is that at the start of the class code the item in question is not on the stage. You work around that by listening for when it does get added to the stage. In your case:
public function JimPlayable()
{
gotoAndStop('Turn Right');
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, everyFrame);
}
could become:
public function JimPlayable()
{
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,added);
}
private function added(e:Event){
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,added);
gotoAndStop('Turn Right');
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, everyFrame);
}
That might be safer. There is also something to listen for when the item is removed from the stage. If you don't do that you will get cases where the everyFrame function is still running after the movieclip is no longer there. That's most likely what's leading to most of your problems. Here's the above code modified to take care of the item being removed from the stage:
public function JimPlayable()
{
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,added);
}
private function added(e:Event){
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,added);
addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE,destroy);
gotoAndStop('Turn Right');
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, everyFrame);
}
public function destroy(e:Event){
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, everyFrame);
removeEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE,destroy);
}
You can see that this all can get a little tricky. Do you know anyone who has done more AS3 than you, who could help you in person while you're figuring all of this out?
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