Question

In AS3 – I use a generic button handler to deal with on-click events on a movie clip object. For the last 4 hours I’ve been trying to add an image to this movie clip (see * * *) object.

The code (I cut and pasted a bit but this all compiles without any errors)

btPlay  =   new mcButtonPlay(this,"ClickMe",GameImage); //  GameImage is an BitmapData object

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public class mcButtonPlay extends navigationButtonHandler {
    public function mcButtonPlay(Parent:MovieClip,Text:String,GameImage:BitmapData)  {
        super(Text);
        if (GameImage != null) {                
            var ImageBitMap:Bitmap  = new Bitmap(GameImage);
            this.addChild(ImageBitMap); // * * * This doesn’t show
            Parent.addChild(ImageBitMap);   // Works just to test the image
        }                       
    }
} 

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public class navigationButtonHandler extends MovieClip {
    public function navigationButtonHandler(Text:String)  {
        ChangeButtonTargetText(Text);
        Parent.addChild(this);
    }
}

Answer 1

Managed to fix it by swapping the super and add child logic around:

public class mcButtonPlay extends navigationButtonHandler {
    public function mcButtonPlay(Parent:MovieClip,Text:String,GameImage:BitmapData)  {
        if (GameImage != null) {                
            var ImageBitMap:Bitmap  = new Bitmap(GameImage);
            this.addChild(ImageBitMap); // * * * This doesn’t show
            Parent.addChild(ImageBitMap);   // Works just to test the image
        }                       
        super(Text);
    }
}

No idea why though!