Losing Focus

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hi.

in one function i’ve created almost 30 movie clips with a text field inside them:


// Create the Empty Movie Clip
_dateClipHolder:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("_dateClip"+j,_root.getNextHighestDepth());
			
// Create a Text Field Inside them
_dateClipHolder.createTextField("_thisDate"+j,j,0,0,30,30);

and in a totally separate function (called later) i want to access these clips and do things to them:


_dateClipHolder["_thisDate" + _today].border = true;
_dateClipHolder["_thisDate" + _today].borderColor = 0xFFFFFF;
_dateClipHolder["_thisDate" + _today].background = true;
_dateClipHolder["_thisDate" + _today].backgroundColor = 0xCCCCCC;

obviously it’s a scope issue but i don’t know how to get scope back. any ideas?

i can trace out:


trace(typeof _dateClipHolder);

in the second function and it returns “movie clip”. but all those textfield properties, i.e. border, borderColor, background, etc…aren’t being executed. i can’t even trace out:


_dateClipHolder["_thisDate" + _today]

it returns undefined.

and while on this note, is there any place i can read about scope and focus issues in flash? this is my one constant problem from project to project and i need to figure it out once and for all.

thanks. - fumeng.