Closing Popup through another class

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Actionscript newb here.

Learning as I go but basically what I have are two windows. The “background window” displays content to the player and a “popup” window shows in front of it to explain the window currently displayed. I have close functions assigned to both windows to close their respective display objects, but what I really need is for the popup window to close when the background window closes.

I’ve been trying to figure this out for a few days now and I’m completely stumped. Any help would be tremendously appreciated!

Here’s the relevant code for the popup window that displays info on the background window:

package com.view.windows


    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import org.greensock.*;
    import flash.display.DisplayObject;
    import com.view.holders.WindowHolder;
     
    
    public class Popup extends Sprite
    {
        private var _index:int = 0;
        private var _msg:Array = [];
        public static var close;
        
        
        
        public function Popup()
        {
            
            this.x = 350;
            this.y = 400;
            this.visible = false;
            TweenLite.to(this, 0, {alpha: 0});
            close_btn.buttonMode = true;
            close_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, close, false, 0, true);    
            
        
     
        private function showPopup():void
        {
            this.visible = true;
            TweenLite.to(this, 1, {alpha: 1});
        }
        
        
        
        public function close(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            var close = this;
            TweenLite.to(this, 0, {alpha: 0});
            this.visible = false;
        }
    }
}

And here’s the code for the background window:

package com.view.holders
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.utils.Dictionary;
    import org.greensock.*;
    import com.view.windows.*;
    public class WindowHolder extends Sprite 
    {        
        private var _windowOpen:Boolean = false;
        private var _windows:Dictionary = new Dictionary(true);
        private var _current:Sprite;
        
    
        public function WindowHolder()
        {
            this.x = 490;
            this.y = 304;
            this.visible = false;
            TweenLite.to(this, 0, {alpha: 0});
            this.kill_mc.visible = false;
            var n:int = this.numChildren;            
            for (var i:int = 2; i < n; i++)
            
        }
        
        private function showWindow():void
        {
            _current.visible = true;
            this.visible = true;
            TweenLite.to(this, .6, {alpha: 1});
        }
        
        private function closeWindow(e:MouseEvent = null):void
        {
            TweenLite.to(this, .6, {alpha: 0, onComplete:visToggle});
            _current.visible = false;
            _windowOpen = false;
            close_mc.visible = false;
            this.inventory_mc.visible = false;
            
        }
        
        
        private function visToggle():void
        {
            this.visible = false;
        }
    }
}

Important thing I forgot to mention is that I removed some of the code from the above files to hopefully cut back on reading. Only the relevant stuff (or what I believe to be) is posted.

I think what I need to do is include something within the “closeWindow” function within the WindowHolder class that relates to the popup class. I just don’t know how to do this.

Thank you!