Question

I am starting with AS3 programming icm with Flash Builder 4.

I have created a “Main” class which is the initial stage.

On this stage there is a movieclip called mcMain.

In this mcMain is 4 other movieclips: mcStats1 mcStats2 mcStats3 mcStats4

How can I access these mcStats1-4 from the code to make them go to another frame?

I tried:

var t:MovieClip = MovieClip(getChildByName("mcMain"));
t.getChildByName("mcStats1").gotoAndPlay(3);

But that just keeps giving me null reference errors:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

So how should I solve this?

Answer 1

I figured it out myself, it wasn’t easy but apperantly typecasting is the answer in AS3.

var p1:mcUserStats; //class name
p1 = ((this.mcMain as MovieClip).mcStats1 as mcUserStats);