FLASH: TypeError: Error #1010 when calling a class (Flash 9 - AS3)

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First of all, hello all, this is my 1st post here, so I’d like to take the opportunity to greet you all.

Now,
I got this class desat.menus.HorizontalMenu
I want to make an instance of this class in a fla-file, but I get the following runtime error:


TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
    at desat.menus::HorizontalMenu$iinit()
    at fcms_fla::MainTimeline/fcms_fla::frame1()

The forum search nor google gave me a solution for this.

This is my code

FLA-file


import desat.menus.HorizontalMenu;
var arr:Array = new Array();
arr.push("home");
arr.push("news");
var $root:MovieClip = this;
var menu:HorizontalMenu = new HorizontalMenu($root, arr, 10, 10 ,120);

HorizontalMenu.as (inside /desat/menus/ )


//******************************************************************************************
//   HorizontalMenu class for FCMS.
//
//   @author:    Gerrit Bertier
//   @contact:   gerrit@tensixtytwo.com
//               http://desaturated.be
//
//   @properties:  parentMovie (MovieClip) = the parent movie for the menu item
//                 menuText    (Array)     = the array containing the text for the items
//                 xpos        (Number)    = the x-position for the 1st menu item
//                 ypos        (Number)    = the y-position for the 1st menu item
//                 itemWidth   (Number)    = the width of a menu item (default: 120)
//
//******************************************************************************************

package desat.menus {
    // Imports
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    //
    public class HorizontalMenu {
        // Properties
        var _parentMovie:MovieClip;
        var _menuText:Array = new Array();
        var _xpos:Number = 0;
        var _ypos:Number = 0;
        var _itemWidth:Number = 120;
        //
        // Getters & setters
        public function get parentMovie():MovieClip {
            return this._parentMovie;
        }
        public function set parentMovie(newValue:MovieClip):void {
            this._parentMovie = newValue;
        }
        public function get MenuText():Array {
            return this._menuText;
        }
        public function set MenuText(newValue:Array):void {
            this._menuText = newValue;
        }
        public function get xpos():Number {
            return this._xpos;
        }
        public function set xpos(newValue:Number):void {
            this._xpos = newValue;
        }
        public function get ypos():Number {
            return this._ypos;
        }
        public function set ypos(newValue:Number):void {
            this._ypos = newValue;
        }
        public function get itemWidth():Number {
            return this._itemWidth;
        }
        public function set itemWidth(newValue:Number):void {
            this._itemWidth = newValue;
        }
        // Methods
        function HorizontalMenu(parentMovie:MovieClip, menuText:Array, xpos:Number, ypos:Number, itemWidth:Number = 120):void {
            _parentMovie = parentMovie;
            _menuText = menuText;
            _xpos = xpos;
            _ypos = ypos;
            _itemWidth = itemWidth;
            // Text formats for the menu items
            var tfmt_normal:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
            tfmt_normal.align = "center";
            tfmt_normal.color = 0x333333;
            tfmt_normal.font = "Trebuchet MS";
            tfmt_normal.size = 11;
            var tfmt_hover:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
            tfmt_hover.align = "center";
            tfmt_hover.color = 0x666666;
            tfmt_hover.font = "Trebuchet MS";
            tfmt_hover.size = 11;
            // Creating a movie clip and the textfield withing that movieclip for each menu item
            for (var i = 0; i < _menuText.length; i++) {
                var my_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
                my_mc.name = "menuitem"+i+"_mc";
                var menu_txt:TextField = new TextField();
                menu_txt.name = "menuitem_txt";
                my_mc.addChild(menu_txt);
                _parentMovie.addChild(my_mc);
                my_mc.menuitem_txt.mouseEnabled = false;
                my_mc.menuitem_txt.setTextFormat(tfmt_normal);
                my_mc.menuitem_txt.text = _menuText*;
            }
        }
    }
}

Any experiences or help with this would be greatly appreciated, as I’m really stuck here.

Edit: I narrowed down the problem and found it is somewhere inside the for-block.