Loading and Referencing Issues

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Hey, it’s been a while since posting here, but I’ve learned a lot from these forums. I’ve been switching over to AS3 on all of my Flash projects but I have some problems regarding loading and accessing loaded movieclips.

I have this in a class, outside of my Document class. My document class is called Main.as and there is a public static var called ‘displayRoot’ that is ‘this.stage’ in the Document class.

So loading in a swf in my LoaderClass.as I’ll do this:

private var kioskMenu:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
private var urlMenu:URLRequest = new URLRequest("menu.swf");

private function loadAssetMenu():void
{
	var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
	ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, menuLoadingListener);
	ldr.load(urlMenu);
}

private function menuLoadingListener(evt:Event):void
{
	kioskMenu = evt.target.content;
	Main.displayRoot.addChild(kioskMenu);
	
	// There is a mc inside menu.swf called mcBackground and I reference it like this, which works and I don't know another way to do so.
	kioskMenu["mcBackground"].alpha = 0;
}

Now this all works, it loads what I need and makes that background movieclip invisible. But I have a DisplayManager that extends a movieclip and has imported the Main Document class so it can access my ‘displayRoot’ var with this method:

public static function showMenu():void
{
	trace("Showing Menu");
	
	trace(Main.displayRoot.getChildByName("kioskmenu"));
}

This method returns a ‘null’. How do I, from a different class then what added a movieclip to the stage, access that movieclip that now resides on the stage. It’s on the stage, I can see it’s content. I am using TweenMax and my DisplayManager class needs to make this exact call to fade up my menu:

TweeMax.to(Path to movieclip, 1, {alpha: 1});

But I have no clue how to access that movie clip from the DisplayManager class nor do I know how to access movieclips nested inside this one. Since this particular project is coming down to the wire, I’m going to rewrite it in AS2 in 1/4th of the time. I am a decent programmer, I have an understanding of OOP - just some light shed here would be most helpful.

Thanks. :afro: