Question about stage.addchild from within a class.

**Matery** · May 2nd, 2012, 05:00 PM

Hi, i'm trying to teach me some flash i've done some .net programming mostly data Analysis and control program for lab equipment, well now to the point.

I'm trying to make a little strategy game. And i've made a class that displays a menu when you click on a city it also controls what's shown in that menu basically display data that's in the "city" class. I haven't used classes before for anything except storing data so i had problems adding the menu to the stage but fixed it by adding everything that was null as an argument.

Code:

public function build_menu(e:MouseEvent,info_format:TextFormat,c_menu:MovieClip,STAGE:Stage):void {here is code}

It's works now but i'm wondering if there are better ways to do this.
I tried parent.stage but that didn't work.
Thnx in advance.

**TheCanadian** · May 2nd, 2012, 07:23 PM

I don't know if I'd call it a better way, but I'd try and remove dependency on the stage from within the class. I also wouldn't add any children directly to the stage.

**LOLFlash** · May 5th, 2012, 06:38 PM

I wouldn't use Stage ether. I have my Registry class to hold display Containers references there. you function will be

Code:

public function build_menu(e:MouseEvent,info_format:TextFormat,c_menu:MovieClip,container:DisplayObjectContainer):void {here is code}

**TheCanadian** · May 5th, 2012, 08:28 PM

Well I was trying to say that I'd remove dependency from as many objects as possible.

**LOLFlash** · May 5th, 2012, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by TheCanadian

Well I was trying to say that I'd remove dependency from as many objects as possible.

What is dependency means?

**TheCanadian** · May 6th, 2012, 02:27 AM

I doubt I'd explain it better than a dictionary

**Matery** · May 6th, 2012, 05:26 AM

Hey thanks for all the replies. Yeah i will try to remove most dependency. Half of the stuff i could just put into the class itself.
I have one layer that's a map that serves as the container for units ,cities and info that appears on mouse over.
I was adding menus to the stage so they would stay on top in the same position without having to do much coding.