Parent problems

[invisibleBlade]

Hi all,
I have a custom class called ToolBar which is attached to a library item. The library item has other clips within it and each is an instance of ToolBarButtonA, B, C etc and these all extend the generic class ToolBarButton.
If I set an event handler for CLICK within each ToolBarButton to trace 'parent' it comes back [Object ToolBar] which is what I expected but if I try to then call a method through 'parent.methodName()' it fails saying 'call to possibly undefined method'

Can anyone give any advice?
Cheers

[kglad]

methodName() is a public method?

[Peter Lorent]

You should be using just methodName() instead of parent.methodName()

[invisibleBlade]

methodName() is public and I am using parent because the buttons are children of the ToolBar movie clip rather than extensions of the attached class.
I have worked round this problem now but would still be interested to find an answer. I found that I could access parent.x, .y etc but not my custom methods which made me wonder, could it be something to with parent returning a reference to the class object rather than to a specific instance of it?

[Peter Lorent]

Ah, I misread the inheritance.

parent is a property of DisplayObject and gives you access to the hierarchy of the display list. It returns a DisplayObjectContainer and that gives you access to its public properties and methods, like x and y. It doesn't return the specialized datatype ToolBar. Doing a trace on parent accesses the Object.toString method and returns the string representation of object ToolBar.

[invisibleBlade]

Ok, that makes sense (I think). I am loving AS3 but every time I think I have a handle on it something like this comes up and I have to go back and research something else.
Oh well, cheers for the help.

[kglad]

as long as that method is public you can access it. you probably just needed to cast the parent as a ToolBar instance:

ToolBar(this.parent).methodName();

[Peter Lorent]

Yes, that cast will work.
I would declare public properties in ToolBar.as and register an event listener on the toolbar buttons instead.

[Nikalo]

Hi Every Body
I a new to AS3. i am facing problem in accessing Children of a Movie Clip.
p1, p2 p3 are childern of movieclip Chracter and character is child of cSelection that is child of CMotion
i want to access p1,p2,p3 dynamically using a loop like
for(var i:int=1; i<4;i++)
{
MovieClip(Cmotion).cSelection.["p"+i].alpha =0;
}

Please tell me how i can do it. Thanks in advance

[Nikalo]

Hi Every Body
I am new to AS3. i am facing problem in accessing Children of a Movie Clip.
p1, p2 p3 are childern of movieclip Chracter and character is child of cSelection that is child of CMotion
i want to access p1,p2,p3 dynamically using a loop like
for(var i:int=1; i<4;i++)
{
MovieClip(Cmotion).cSelection.p .alpha =0;
}

Please tell me how i can do it. Thanks in advance