Button: Will this ever work in AS3.0

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Hi there

I’m new to AS3.0. I know Java and some C++ so I think I can handle OOP good enough. But Flash is just something different.

Some years ago, in AS2.0, I created a simple button (think of that as a SimpleButton as in AS3.0). There is a dynamic textfield with instance name “displayText” in it. The idea is that I can reuse the button by just changing the action and text of the button.

In AS3.0, I’m trying to do something the same.

I have a FLA file created. The document class is called Main. Here is Main.as.


package {
    import flash.display.*;
    import MenuButton;
    public class Main extends MovieClip {
        public var bg:MainBg = new MainBg();
        public static var btn1:MenuButton = new MenuButton(500,500);
        public function Main() {
            addChild(bg);
            addChild(btn1);
        }
        
    }
}

Here is MenuButton.as.

package {
    import flash.display.SimpleButton;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    public class MenuButton extends SimpleButton {
        public var masterMenu:MovieClip;
        public var menuToOpen:MovieClip;
        public function MenuButton(xPos:Number, yPos:Number):void {
            x = xPos;
            y = yPos;
            this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, actionOnClick);
        }
        public function actionOnClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
            //do something
        }
    }
}

Well, I tried this.displayText.text = “Something”, but of course it doesn’t work. I tried accessing from the document class, i.e. btn1.displayText.text = “Something”, and it doesn’t work either.

Er… Hungry, thirsty and frustrated… How to make it work???

Thanks in advance.
Felastine.