Access document stage instead of object stage

Question

Hi AS3 community,
I've run into a brick wall and was hoping I could use your help. I have the following class set up:
package 
          import flash.events.MouseEvent;
          import flash.text.TextField;
          import flash.display.MovieClip;
          import flash.text.TextFormat;
          public class NPC extends MovieClip
                    public function NPC(varX:Number,varY:Number,varName:String)
                              // constructor code
                              this.x=varX;
                              this.y=varY;
                              this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,actionWindow);
  public function actionWindow(event:MouseEvent):void
                              var format:TextFormat= new TextFormat();
                              format.size=15;
                              var dialogue:TextField=new TextField();
                              dialogue.defaultTextFormat=format;
                              dialogue.text="Welcome to Russ's Test Environment!";
                              dialogue.border=true;
                              dialogue.background=true;
                              dialogue.backgroundColor=0xE8F2FA;
                              dialogue.wordWrap=true;
                              dialogue.width=650;
                              dialogue.x=25;
                              dialogue.y=25;
                              addChild(dialogue);
And have the following on the timeline:
var compy:NPC = new NPC(400,200,"Joe");
addChild(compy);
This correctly creates my object on the stage, however when I click on it the dialogue box appears in relation to the object and not the stage itself (in this instance, x 425 y 225). What would I want to do in order to place the text box at x 25 y 25?

Answer 1

You can do:
dialogue.x = 25 - x;
dialogue.y = 25 - y;
However perhaps the better approach is to create the text field in the Document class (or the main timeline.)
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/