So basically the only way to make this work is to declare the myMovieClip as a global variable??
-----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Gerry Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:28 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to access MovieClip declared in one function in an event listener Steve, You have some things confused. Like Ross said, read up on event.target. Your code should look something like this... Var myMovieClip:MovieClip; Var myButton:SimpleButton; DrawMyStuffOnScreen(); Function DrawMyStuffOnScreen():void{ myMovieClip = new DefinedMovieClip(); myButton = new DefinedButton(); myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,DoSomething); //Defined Movie clip has several input fields in it myMovieClip.TextField.text = "SomeText"; addChild(myMovieClip); addChild(myButton); } Function DoSomething(e:MouseEvent):void{ //What goes in this function to be able to do something like Trace(myMovieClip.TextField.text); // This show a complier error of basically I don't know what myMovieClip is; } On Apr 21, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Steve Abaffy wrote: > Hello, > > > > I basically have the follow: > > > > Function DrawMyStuffOnScreen():void{ > > Var myMovieClip:MovieClip = new DefinedMovieClip(); > > Var myButton:SimpleButton = new DefinedButton(); > > myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,DoSomething); > > //Defined Movie clip has several input fields in it > > myMovieClip.TextField.text = "SomeText"; > > addChild(myMovieClip); > > } > > Function DoSomething(MouseEvent.CLICK):void{ > > What goes in this function to be able to do something like > > Trace(myMovieClip.TextField.text); // This show a complier > error of basically I don't know what myMovieClip is; > > > > Then tried: > > Var myMC = new DefinedMovieClip(); > > Trace(myMC.TextField.text) // this works but is always empty > since it initializes empty. > > So how do you access the textfield that is sitting on the > stage??? > > } > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
