class members not available fast enough!

[kamcknig]

Hello everyone!

I have a class, ClassA which is a MovieClip. Inside of that I have about 20 other MovieClips that are associated with ClassB.

In my main timeline I have something like this, instantiating ClassA and then calling a setup function in it.

var obA:ClassA = ClassA(attachMovie("ClassA", "classA", getNextHighestDepth()));
obA.setup();

Then in ClassA I have this, the ClassB type variables are declared at the top because they are on the stage inside of ClassA.

public class ClassA extends MovieClip {
  public var obB1:ClassB;
  public var obB2:ClassB;
  ...
  public var obB20:ClassB;

  public function ClassA() {
  }

  public function setup():Void {
    obB1.owner = 0;
    obB2.owner = 1;
    obB3.owner = 2;
    ...
    obB20.owner = 19;
  }
}

This is all very boiled down compared to what I have. But the problem is that the constructors of all the ClassB instances inside of ClassA are being called AFTER the setup() function is being called, and therefore I can't access any properties inside of those ClassB variables!!

The only solution I've come up with is to instantiate ClassA and then use a timeout to call the setup function in the class after a delay so that everything gets initialized before I try to access them!! And I don't like that solution at all!

Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this??

Thanks!
Kyle

[TheCanadian]

Try obA.onLoad = function():Void {this.setup();}

[kamcknig]

Thanks!

That worked