package com.adam.etutorial
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.display.Shape;
public class adamsboxmaker
{
//(boxWidth, boxHeight, lineColour, lineThickness, beginFillColour, fillIf, fontcolour, fontsize, fonttype, textFormat, textWidth, textHeight, text, Xoffset, Yoffset, textIf)
public function adamsboxmaker(boxWidth:Number,boxHeight:Number,lineColour:Number,lineThickness:int, beginFillColour:Number, fillIf:Boolean, fontColour:Number, fontSize:int, fontType:String, textWidth:Number, textHeight:Number, txt:String, Xoffset:Number, Yoffset:Number, textIf:Boolean)
{
createBox(boxWidth,boxHeight,lineColour,lineThickness, beginFillColour, fillIf, fontColour, fontSize, fontType, textWidth, textHeight, txt, Xoffset, Yoffset, textIf);
}
private function createBox(boxWidth:Number,boxHeight:Number,lineColour:Number,lineThickness:int, beginFillColour:Number, fillIf:Boolean, fontColour:Number, fontSize:int, fontType:String, textWidth:Number, textHeight:Number, txt:String, Xoffset:Number, Yoffset:Number, textIf:Boolean)
{
/*BUILD CONTAINER*/
var container:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
/*END CONTAINER*/
/*BUILD BOX*/
var theBox:Shape = new Shape();
container.addChild(theBox);
theBox.graphics.lineStyle(lineThickness, lineColour);
if (fillIf == true)
{
theBox.graphics.beginFill(beginFillColour);
}
theBox.graphics.moveTo(0, 0);
theBox.graphics.lineTo(boxWidth, 0);
theBox.graphics.lineTo(boxWidth, boxHeight);
theBox.graphics.lineTo(0, boxHeight);
theBox.graphics.lineTo(0, 0);
if (fillIf == true)
{
theBox.graphics.endFill();
}
/*END BOX*/
if (textIf == true)
{
/*BUILD FORMATTING*/
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.color = fontColour;
myFormat.size = fontSize;
myFormat.font = fontType;
/*END FORMATTING*/
/*BUILD TEXTFIELD*/
var theText:TextField = new TextField();
theText.text = txt;
theText.x = Xoffset;
theText.y = Yoffset;
theText.width = textWidth;
theText.height = textHeight;
theText.wordWrap = true;
theText.setTextFormat(myFormat);
container.addChild(theText);
/*END TEXTFIELD*/
}
container.visible = false;
return container;
}
}
}
This is my first crack at writing a class and after reading up this is what I have.
Essentially, I want to be able to write var txt:adamsboxmaker = new adamsboxmaker(parameters);
and have txt be a display object from the returned MovieClip. But that’s not happening.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Ok. So the problem here is a little misunderstanding. You are creating an instance of a adamsboxmaker class and the reference is then automatically returned and stored in the txt variable. This is how Object Orientated languages work.
What you are trying to do is use a factory method to create an object. To implement this, change your createBox to a public static function
and remove the call from inside the constructor.
Then all you need to do is
Re: Question in comment
In this case you want your adamsboxmaker to be the box. So first make the class extend MovieClip
You can now consider the instance of this class to be the same as the container:MovieClip you were creating. Add this code into the constructor:
Now you can go