Question

Facts:

• I have 2 classes: Entity and Ship. Entity extends MovieClip and Ship extends Entity.
• I have a MovieClip associated to the Ship.as class file.

The thing is that I’m able to show, rotate and move the Ship object. However, I cannot change the pointer to the place I want in its timeline; in short: I can NOT have a successful response from gotoAndStop(n). It just doesn’t work.

Thanks in advance.

I’ve already tried:

• Casting the MovieClip inside and outside the class file.
• Importing flash.utils.*
• Changing the parameters from a number to a string (for the frame label).

The only way it’s worked for me is deriving Ship directly from MovieClip and not from Entity; but that would be undesirable and last resort.

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Answer 1

“select’’ Isn’t Broken

It is rare to find a bug in the OS or the compiler, or even a third-party product or library. The bug is most likely in the application.

-The Pragmatic Programmer

un-comment line 93-101 in Ship.as

comment out line 121 in Ship.as