Re: Beginner Question

I don't have access to their source, so no.  As an experiment I also tried defining the function at runtime in my fla version and that worked fine.

I'm not sure this would help, but there's no way for me to define the method on the movie clip at compile time using MTASC?

-t

 

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Ralf Bokelberg <ralf.bokelberg@...> wrote:

Sounds like a timing problem to me.
Couldn't you let the loaded movie call a method on its parent first,
to make sure it is completely loaded?

Cheers
Ralf.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Trevor Rundell <kneebraces22@...> wrote:
> I'm a beginner to MTASC, but I've been programming Flash and Actionscript
> for many years years now.  I've been trying to convert a few projects to
> MTASC as of late, but have encountered a few road blocks.  Here's the gist
> of what I'm try to do.
>
> We have a swf that gets loaded into a client's application at runtime.  When
> our swf finishes loading the client calls a certain method in it that allows
> us to access some of their apis.  When I build this using the Flash IDE it's
> really easy.  We have a movie with a single frame.  The action on the frame
> is something like this...
>
> function setInterface(o:Object):Void {
>      // do some stuff in here
> }
>
> My problem is that using MTASC I can't replicate this functionalty.  I wrote
> a Utility class which should boil down to the same thing as my fla when it's
> compiled.  I'll outline the basic shell of my as file below...
>
> class Utility {
>
>      private static var app:Utility;
>
>      function Utility(mc:MovieClip) {
>           mc.setInterface = Delegate.create(this, setInterface);
>           // constructor stuff
>      }
>
>      public static function main(mc:MovieClip):Void {
>           app = new Utility(mc);
>      }
>
>      public function setInterface(o:Object):Void {
>           trace("THIS METHOD IS NEVER CALLED");
>           // do some other stuff here
>      }
>
> }
>
> No matter where I put the setInterface method it never seems to get called.
> I also tried defining it like mc.setInterface = function(o:Object) {
> trace("THIS DOESN'T GET CALLED EITHER") }; and there was no difference.
>
> I've confirmed that our contructor does run prior to when their call would
> be expected using traces, but I'm stumped as to why this wouldn't work.
> Debugging with trace(mc); confirms that mc is the correct movie clip in the
> clients application (loaded at _level0.utilities.u0 in both cases).  Does
> anyone else have any suggestions as to why this might not work?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -t
>

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