Why am I getting error 1118 here?

[innerUFOmaker]

In the code below I have several MovieClips that are all TheBeetle(). They are in another MovieClip called gamelevel and also pushed in an array called bArray. previously I have indexed them in the gamelevel but after the event listener is called I cannot index them anymore and receive the error "1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type flash.display:DisplayObject.". As the user clicks them, they die (and change the frame) and the dead body goes under other alive bodies, thats the reason I need to index them to 1 as they die. I understand what the error says but how can i do what i need to do?

The code works just fine but it wouldn't in the two lines i've mentioned in it, so take a look please:

    public function clicked (event:MouseEvent)

        {

            if (event.target is TheBeetle && event.target.currentFrame <= 2)

            {

                var mc:Object = event.target

                // TheBeetle is actually a MovieClip but i cannot write: var mc:MovieClip = event.target, if i do i receive 1118

                    if (mc.currentFrame == 1)

                    {

                        mc.gotoAndStop (Math.floor(Math.random() * 3 + 4));

                    }

                    else

                    {

                        mc.gotoAndStop (3);

                    }

                    mc.filters = null;

                    // Here i need to index the TheBeetle as i did before like gamelevel.setChildIndex(mc,1) but i'd receive 1118!

                    bArray.splice (bArray.indexOf(mc),1);

                    if (bArray.length == 0)

                    {

                        removeEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,frameHandler);

                        waveTimer.removeEventListener (TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, changeLocation);

                    }

            }

        }

[kglad · Accepted solution]

cast it:

var mc:MovieClip=MovieClip(event.target);

[innerUFOmaker]

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[innerUFOmaker]

and can u explain why should i define it as a movieclip while it already is? thx

[kglad]

you're welcome.

and you're correct.  it's not clear why flash should have to be told your event.target is a movieclip, but it does.

flash easily loses track of object types.  the simplest example is using 'root'.  under no circumstance (that i've found) can flash remember that 'root' is a movieclip.  (it can be a sprite if you create a document class that extends sprite, but otherwise it's a movieclip.)

anyway, i assume it would make flash slower and use more memory if it were to keep track of object types so that might be a reason why flash frequently needs help remembering.  but i don't really know if that's true.