Tuesday, September 11, 2007

In my main AS3 document class, I am loading a SWF into a MovieClip, and then later would like to access vars, methods, etc. within it from my main class. As a test in my SWF that gets loaded in I have a simple variable: var foo:String = "iam"; -- now to access that I found this out (works):

private function loadViewElements():void
{
  var module1Loader:Loader = new Loader();
  module1Loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( 
     Event.COMPLETE, completeEvent );
  module1Loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( 
     IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioError );
   
  // Create and load the Views
  NUMBERPAD = new MovieClip();
  addChild( NUMBERPAD );
  NUMBERPAD.addChild( module1Loader );
  var moduleURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "views/view.swf" );
  module1Loader.load( moduleURL );
}

private function completeEvent( event:Event ):void
{
  var foo:Object = NUMBERPAD.getChildAt(0);
  trace( foo.numChildren ); // 1
  trace( foo.getChildAt(0).iam ); // iam
}

This works just fine, but wondering if I should set up private variables to hold those objects for easy access later on in my document class above the constructor and in the complete event, like so:

private var NUMBERPAD_CONTENTS:Object;
// within compete event below:
NUMBERPAD_CONTENTS = foo.getChildAt(0);
trace( NUMBERPAD_CONTENTS.iam ); // iam

Just to make things clearer and much easier to access. Or is there a much more simple way of approaching this?

Update:

trace( event.target.content.iam );

Well, that out to do it ;) BUT, how can I get the name of the mc that the loader is inside... so I can use a generic loader and assign vars to certain things?

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