Question

I’ve got a few MouseEvent listeners outside of a function that contains nested functions that need to use the functions attached to the listeners.

button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, buttonOver); 

function navigation (): void {

    if statements;

    function buttonOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
        movieclip.play();
    }
}

I keep getting an “1120:Access of undefined property buttonOver” error. I know it’s because the EventListener is outside of the function “navigation” but I need it to be accessed by other functions later. Am I going about this all wrong?

Answer 1

That won’t work. I don’t think you should nest functions. Why don’t you use a class instead that you can access from other classes / instances?

Rob