# AS3 is confusing me (function class confusion) **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [December 27, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-is-confusing-me-function-class-confusion/211126 "2006-12-27T18:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Z11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@Z11](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Z11)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-is-confusing-me-function-class-confusion/211126/1 "2006-12-27T18:09:27Z")
In the older AS’s you could call an array… bob = new Array(); And then inside some random function be like… bob[0] = “soldier”; bob[1] = “40”; etc… or at least \_root.bob[0] = “soldier”; How can you do that in the new AS3? Also I can’t seem to include anything… I thought include just stuck whatever I had into the middle of the page… like if i had bob.as and inside it had only one line with … trace(‘hi bob’); And i included that inside some random function, it would trace hi bob from that function… that just breaks my compiler when I try that… Why? Thridly… I finnaly found out that to call a function from another class which was imported, I had to first import… then do something like… public var game\_new:game; // to make it useable then inside the initial function i did a game\_new = new game(); //to me that seems very redundant, but ok i see how it doesn’t have to be… then type game\_new.functionname(); //just to run that function Is there an easier way? Can the function ‘functionname()’ which was in game\_new. call a function from the original package? like… initial2() or something like that?