Object data member not changing when assigned value

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Hi,

So I’ve run into a problem with assigning a value to some of my object’s data members.
Here’s what’s going on:

I have a class called Tile. Here is the code for the class (just the part that you need to see):

public class Tile extends MovieClip {

private var testVar:String;

public function Tile() {
    testVar = "initialized testVar";
    this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClickHandler);
}

private function mouseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
    trace(testVar);
}

public function setTest(s:String):void {
    testVar = s;
}

}

Out side of this class I make two simple calls. One to initialize the object and the other to call the function (the object is already present on the stage btw so I CAN click it). The call is:

var myObject:Tile = new Tile();
myObject.setTest(“cool”);

Now when I run the program and I click on myObject, it spits out:

initialized testVar

click it again… and again… and again lol. Same thing over and over. So I thought maybe my call outside the class was somehow incorrect. I made a trace within the setTest function so that it looked like this:

public function setTest(s:String):void {
testVar = s;
trace (testVar);
}

This time it spits out:

cool

Then when I click it always gives me:

initialized testVar

Why won’t my data member change?

icekube12jr