Question

I’m getting an error whilst trying to add an event listener to a class of a Button on my stage.

1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class.

On my stage i have a Button with the instance name stopBtn, this is also exported to an actionscript class called classes.stopBtn (stopBtn.as in a folder called ‘classes’). The button is on the first keyframe in the main timeline, in a layer with other buttons on that layer

The error is on line 10 of the stopBtn.as file:

package  classes {

    import flash.display.SimpleButton;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;

    public class stopBtn extends SimpleButton {

        public function stopBtn() {
            stopBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopButtonFunction); 
        }

        function stopButtonFunction(event:MouseEvent):void  {           
                MovieClip(root).trackPosition = 0;
                MovieClip(root).mySoundChannel.stop();
                MovieClip(root).playPause.gotoAndPlay(2);
        }   

    }

}

I have found many threads for the error code 1061 but non of them seem to relate to my problem!

I have tried to ensure all event types are imported by using

Import flash.events.*; but this makes no difference.

Answer 1

You code should be like

package  classes {

    import flash.display.SimpleButton;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;

    public class stopBtn extends SimpleButton {

        public function stopBtn() {
            addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopButtonFunction); 
        }

        function stopButtonFunction(event:MouseEvent):void  {           
                MovieClip(root).trackPosition = 0;
                MovieClip(root).mySoundChannel.stop();
                MovieClip(root).playPause.gotoAndPlay(2);
        }   

    }

}