MovieAssetMaterial: reference to root lost?

[Lars Schwarz]

hi all,

i'm trying to reference a function on root (yeah, good old timeline
based application) from within
a MovieAssetMaterial but it's always "returning" null. it's a nested
movieclip in the material firing
a click event and from within the mousevent i'm trying to call the
function on root. "this" and "parent"
are null also. material is interactive, scene, too.

what am i missing?

all works just fine when i place the movieclip as regular display
object on the stage for testing purpose.

thanks: lars

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[Krobill]

Hi,

you can't access the root property unless your movieClip is actually part of the display list currently displayed by your flash application. Even if papervision uses it as a material ressource and it shows somehow on screen, it doesn't mean it has been added as a regular child or descendant of your scene, so its root property is null. To access a 'root' function, providing you're using a class document (you really should), one of your option is to use a static variable pointing to your stage. This var can then be used to access any public function you'll define in the class document from anywhere.

Hope it helps,

Alain
www.alkemi-games.com

Lars Schwarz wrote:

hi all,

i'm trying to reference a function on root (yeah, good old timeline
based application) from within
a MovieAssetMaterial but it's always "returning" null. it's a nested
movieclip in the material firing
a click event and from within the mousevent i'm trying to call the
function on root. "this" and "parent"
are null also. material is interactive, scene, too.

what am i missing?

all works just fine when i place the movieclip as regular display
object on the stage for testing purpose.

thanks: lars

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