Have you tried casting to MovieClip? regards, Muzak
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:45 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] How to call custom method on loaded AS3 swf?
This is my first post to the list in 2008 so hi and compliments of the season to y'all. So, here's the context... I have an application framework built in AS3 and based on the MVC pattern. One of my Views loads a compiled swf also built in AS3. When it is that View's turn to be displayed, it gets added to the display list and then needs to call a custom method on the loaded swf so that loaded swf does its thing (it's a game). Here's the problem... Although I can invoke the required method on the loaded swf, I couldn't get the compiler to stop complaining (it's compiling in Strict mode) so I had to do a bit of a kludge to trick the compiler. I am sure there is a better and proper way of doing this - can you tell me what it is? Here's the code that loads the game swf (for the sake of context)... gameLoader = new Loader(); // some listeners registered here var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( gameURL ); gameLoader.load(request); The Document Class of the swf at 'gameURL' contains a method call 'startup' and this is the one I want to invoke. So I tried this... gameLoader.content.startup(); Predictably, the compiler utters the following... "1061: Call to a possibly undefined method startup through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject." I tried a few things (including casting gameLoader.content to the Document Class) but the only thing I could get to work is this... gameLoader.content["startup"](); Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Adrian Park
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