Trying to call a parent function

[richwilliamsuk]

Hi there,

I'm a bit new with AS3, at the moment i'm struggling to call a parent function. I'm trying to use this.parent.parent.functionhere() and it keeps telling me it's not a function. If i do a trace(parent.parent...etc) it first comes up with the class i'm in, then the container within the parent class, then it misses the parent class and goes straight to the stage.

I'm horribly confused with this display object list malarkey at the moment. Any help is very much appreciated.

Cheers

Rich

[restlessdesign]

Dispatch an event from the child and have the parent object listen for that event. This way, your application will be more loosely-coupled.

[richwilliamsuk]

Dispatch an event from the child and have the parent object listen for that event. This way, your application will be more loosely-coupled.

Thanks very much for the help, I stuck a REMOVE event in and it's working now :)

[J_S]

Can anyone please describe how you can 'Dispatch an event from the child and have the parent object listen for that event.'. I have a movieclip on my stage, and in this movieclip I have this code:


this.addEventListener("mouseOver",DoMouseOver);
function DoMouseOver(evt:MouseEvent){
parent.parent.test();
}

I want to call a function called 'test' which I have made on the stage

[ThePuzzleMaster]

Is there a way to do this and also send variables, either from parent to child, or child to parent? In a way that would be legal in strict debug mode?

[Undernet]

Is there a way to do this and also send variables, either from parent to child, or child to parent? In a way that would be legal in strict debug mode?

Yes, Create a custom event class that takes extra parameters and pass the parameters in to the new myEvent object when you dispatch the event.

[ThePuzzleMaster]

Oh yeah! That should work. Thanks!

[libra0]

i dont understand... :(

can u guys give me a link ou some code to explain.

Regards

[libra0]

got it.. ;)

MovieClip(this.parent.parent).function();