ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing Class Instances From Another Movie Clip?
Jun 2, 2009
I have a movie clip on the root which contains my menu. And another movie clip which plays my video. Basically when i click a menu item it calls a function which i want to able to send a command to my video player to play another video.
This is code inside my video player movie clip (i've missed out the including of the class and various config stuff - below is just so you see the name of the class instance)
var MDVideo:MD_VideoPlayer;
var videoPath:String = "assets/ski_video.flv";
MDVideo = new MD_VideoPlayer(videoPath, local_config_obj);
[Code]....
How do i access the MDVideo instance from my menu movie clip?
i know its probably been answered here before but I havent been able to find exactly what i need to make it work. Plus this is my first time doing AS3 so
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ActionScript Code:
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at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
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Supporting info:
Code: Comments to explain
//inside a for loop[code]....
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