Do you want the height of the entire stage, i.e. of the whole Flex app?
I believe you can get to that through Application.application.height.
Have you tried that?
Hope that helps,
Michael
patricklemiuex wrote:
>
> I have a sprite, it's added to the display...
>
> I understand that any display object has access to the stage Object.
> Can someone clear the confusion for me, what's the deal here, I get a
> null error trying to access the stage height... I've even tried to
> call another method after addChild to make sure that it's already in
> the display. My preloader extends sprite (of course).
>
> This is baffling.
>
> var _preloader = new _preloader();
> addChild(_preloader);
>
> _preloader.getHeight();
>
> inside my preloader...
>
> public function getHeight(){
> trace (this.stage.stageHeight); //returns null object reference???
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
