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brybam
brybam

Reputation: 5029

Call to a possibly undefined method as im trying to instantiate the Movie Clip

Okay, so i have a bunch of simple shapes in movie clips...

THen, i have "levels" that are each in their own movie clip...

Sometimes in the levels i have to instantiate these random movie clips on the fly and create multiple instances, so ill just do something like 

//this up top
var hexagonOne:hexagonOne;


//then this when i need a new one, i need to do it like this so i can make multiple instances...
hexagonOne = new hexagonOne();

This works great..but...

in another movie clip now on my "level 2" movie clip

I literally take the same exact code, that worked in level one...But now it will not work in this other movie clip....

I get this error whenever i try hexagonOne = new hexagonOne(); or ANY other shape movie clip i try to instantiate.

Symbol 'lvl1-2', Layer 'Layer 2', Frame 1, Line 99  1180: Call to a possibly undefined method hexagonOne.

I don't understand because it worked fine inside the other movie clip, which is just like this one...It makes no sense.

EDIT: figured it out, dumb typo on my end.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 841

Answers (1)

Jason Sturges
Jason Sturges

Reputation: 15955

If you had a symbol in your library with AS Linkage named "hexagonOne", this makes sense:

var hexagonOne:hexagonOne;
hexagonOne = new hexagonOne();

From the timeline, you define a local variable hexagonOne and instantiate that instance with a type hexagonOne.

If you have not defined the variable var hexagonOne in a different scope, it's unknown.

For starters, it'd probably help to follow a naming convention for your symbol to be defined as HexagonOne then camel case your variable as you have.

var hexagonOne:HexagonOne;
hexagonOne = new HexagonOne();

If each level MovieClip needs to add a hexagonOne object, each should define var hexagonOne:hexagonOne and instantiate it with the new keyword.

If that doesn't help, perhaps you should cite more of what your trying to accomplish with specifics of your libary / class / code implementation.

Upvotes: 1

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