Passing a movieclip object as variable

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Hi!

This is my first post here so Hello! :mountie:

I’m relatively new to Flash and ActionScript and have a problem with the following code i’m putting together:



// creating a new testmclip object

var testmclip = new testmclip(); // creating a new testmclip object




/* create a new pop up menu
- sending the testmclip as var and "test" as label */

popupmenu = new Menu ([path: testmclip, label: "test"]);



//the menu class creates itself and adds itself to the stage

public function Menu (items:Array)
{
     _items = items;
     // does other stuff to add itself to stage
}



/*- it then takes the path and label and creates a new MenuItem as child of itself */

var itemone = new MenuItem(_items[0].path, _items[0].label);
addChild(itemone);




/* the MenuItem class takes the path and label and returns itself with the path and label as its children */

public function MenuItem(path,label:String)
{
     _path=path;
    field.text=label;


}


/* the following is the code where I need help.....
Once addedtostage --> MenuItem takes the path (which should be the testmclip object) and adds it as its child */

addChildat( _path, numChildren - 1);

The above doesn’t work.

I’m trying to send a movieclip object created in one class, to a different class - for the latter class to add as it’s child.

The code was originally Kevin Hoyts Android Component for Menu and MenuItem (http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/?p=548) … but in that the path for the menuitem was a path which loaded from url or relative path --> this I can’t do with flash…I think.

Any help appreciated!

Ray