For the life of me… I can’t get listeners to work, what is going wrong here? I get this error…
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at player$iinit()
at game$iinit()
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
public class player extends Sprite {
private var speed = Math.random() *2+2;
private var timer:Timer = new Timer(30);
public function player() {
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);
}
private function reportKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
trace("Key Pressed: " + String.fromCharCode(event.charCode) +
" (character code: " + event.charCode + ")");
}
private function onTimer(event:TimerEvent):void {
}
}
}