Help with getDefinitionByName

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Hey, Im having some trouble with getDefinitionByName. Basically I have a class called “tower_arrow”. I can create this tower and it works fine like this:

var pr = new tower_arrow();

However, I need a system that loads different towers based upon string input, so I tried replacing this with:


var C2:Class = getDefinitionByName( "tower_arrow" ) as Class;
var pr = new C2();

However, I get an error when running this second code:

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable tower_arrow is not defined.
	at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
	at code.world::world/newTower()
	at code.world::placer/tryCreate()
	at code.world::placer/go()

I can’t see why this wouldn’t work, the class works fine, I have imported it into the document I am using it in.

Thanks.