How to access or create a stage in a class file

Question

Hello Flash Actionscript writers,
I have recently discovered that I cannot use the "stage" in a
class file. I had a regular fla file that had actionscript
in my "actions" layer. Of course, the fla has a stage object.
I decided it might be nice to use the actionscript
I wrote (copied, stole, etc) in as a class, so I could use it
in different places, etc. I am still a neophyte in this area.
My new class file consists of a button and a textfield. I
created small classes for each of these items as an exercise for
myself on creating a simple class, etc.
I also have a URLLoader, and use an xmllist to do a sort of
mini-slide show. The idea is to show a button and the textfield.
When the user clicks the button the slide show starts. I would like
to be able to center the images loaded on the stage, along with the
buttons, etc. Right now I am cheating - since I decided the stage
is 500 px wide, etc. I can use 500 - myButton.width, etc to center
items. The fla where the class is called has a stage that wide,
etc. The swf created from the class file WeeklySlideShow.swf is
created from a fla with the DocumentClass set to my class
WeeklySlideShow.as.
I then have yet another fla file, and load my
WeeklySlideShow.swf into that file, and play it, etc. But my
buttons and images are not centered. Or should I just put my
actionscript class back into the calling fla as an actions layer,
thus having a stage where I can center everything. I probably have
a flaw in the items in my class file and am really miss-using the
class concept, etc.
Any tips will help.
Thanks,
eholz1

Answer 1

A little more text explaining where you get stuck might help (tell us which wires you can figure out, and which ones you can't).
Anyway, if you never want this VI to give you a dialog, simply wire a FALSE constant to 'Advisory dialog?'.
If you wire TRUE to it, or leave it unwired, LV will give you a dialog if you want to open a file (specified by 'file path') and it does NOT exist, or if you want to create/replace a file and it DOES exist.
The file you actually want to open/create/replace is specified by the 'file path' input. If this is empty, LV will also show a dialog.
I am not sure what happens if you leave the 'file path' empty, and wire FALSE to 'Advisory dialog?', but that's easy to test.
In your case, to avoid a dialog always, make sure the 'file path' is
never empty and the 'Advisory dialog?' is wired to a FALSE constant.