Why can't I call play(); in another class?

[Jejkobb]

So I have made a game, with a dinosaur, and when you bite into something I want there to be bloodsplatter. I've animated the bloodsplatter and the first image is the Class for it. But when I press space It wont change, I can only trace words in the splash function. The other images are snippets from the dinosaur class. Help is very much appreciated, because I am quite new to AS3.

[kglad]

that will cause the your blood instance to play.  if that's what you want, use the trace function to confirm that if-branch is executing and splash() is executing.

p.s. your not following naming convention which will cause more and more problems if you ever work with anyone else or continue to seek help from others.

your class name should be BloodClass and your instance blood.  you have just the opposite.

[Jejkobb]

when I put a trace in splash() it works, but it wont play when I put play(); there

why is that?

[kglad]

you may have lost scope.  use the trace function, eg

trace(this)

[Jejkobb]

still won't play, I've tried so many things but I can only play it from inside the class.

[kglad]

what's the trace show?

[Jejkobb]

[object blood]

[kglad]

again, use the trace to continue debugging.

eg, start an enterframe loop that checks your instances currentFrame property.