Michael, (It slipped my mind, this)
OR - you could use ADDED_TO_STAGE EventListener in that frame, and have a function wrap around your button listener code. Should do the trick. - Daniel - On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Boey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Fix 1 (more like Issue 1) is probably the issue you're facing: > > http://curtismorley.com/2007/08/15/flash-cs3-flex-error-1009-cannot-access-a-property-or-method-of-a-null-object-reference/ > > I've made similar tests that scripts just don't work because the objects > are not there yet even though you're supposed to be on that frame already. > There might be better fixes, but you could "try" a gotoAndPlay instead to > "mainoffice" and add a stop() to the next frame and have your EventListener > code there. > > - Daniel - > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Michael Knauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> First time posting on this list, hope y'all can help with this one, it >> should be easy, but having gone through what seems to be every possible >> permutation, I can't get it right. >> >> in the main movie, there's a button named "upperoffice", and the event >> listner correctly triggers the displayinfobox function to send the movieclip >> infoboxmc to a named frame... the code in frame 1 of the main movie: >> >> upperoffice.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, displayinfobox); >> function displayinfobox(event:MouseEvent):void >> { >> infoboxmc.gotoAndStop("mainoffice"); >> } >> >> That works as expected. Now, there's a button in the infoboxmc movieclip >> that I'd like to have send the movieclip to another named frame, I expect >> that I need to have the event listener point to the button in the movieclip, >> some thing like >> >> infoboxmc.closethat.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, >> closeinfobox); >> function closeinfobox(event:MouseEvent):void >> { >> infoboxmc.gotoAndStop("blank"); >> } >> >> but that does not work.... >> >> I get something like: "TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or >> method of a null object reference. >> at interactivecampmap1_fla::MainTimeline/frame1() " >> >> this should be pretty simple, but I can't come up with a path that >> correctly targets the button inside the movieclip, can anyone point me in >> the correct direction? >> >> Michael >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> > > > > -- > Thanks & Best regards, > Daniel Boey > -- Thanks & Best regards, Daniel Boey _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
