Class Question Redux

programming flash
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Hi all,

I’ve taken the Hello class “back to formula”, as my first go ran away from me. I’m unable to call displayMessage(), as a method of Hello, nothing is rendered to screen. What don’t I get?



/**
A Simple hello class
that assigns a custom
message to a text field
based upon time of day.
**/
class com.bushidodeep.Hello {
        private var width:Number;
        private var height:Number;
        private static var textFieldDepth:Number = 0;
        public static var message:String = "Hello It's Me";
        // Movie clip that will contain visual
        // elements of the hello.
        private var container_mc:MovieClip;
        //
        public function Hello() {
                container_mc = target.createEmptyMovieClip("messageDisplay", 1);
                container_mc.displayGreeting();
        }
        function placeGreeting() {
        }
        function displayGreeting() {
                container_mc.createTextField("messageText", textFieldDepth, 200, 100, 250, 125);
                container_mc.messageText.text = "test";
                container_mc.messageText.border = true;
        }
}