Accessing a movie from another movie (class)

Question

Hi all!,
Ok, this is a little bit complicated to explain, but I will
try my best. First, please click on the link below to see the
mockup that I did:
Link
to mockup
Now for some explanation:
First of all, the Flash makes use of an XML file to grab some
data. This part was freakin complicated and it's actually a
programmer who helped me with that but he is very unfamiliar with
AS on the whole so he couldn't really help me with the rest. OK so
basically in the first frame I am loading the XML, then what you
are seeing on the stage is in frame 2.
on the stage there are 2 movies:
1. scrollPane_mc
2. cables_mc
For now you can check and uncheck the items in the scroll
pane and you can roll over the cables to see their names.
1. scrollPane_mc
scrollPane_mc is a scroll pane component that has a movie
called cableList_mc as source.
cableList_mc itself is an empty movie with just 1 frame and
which dynamically grabs a movie called cableListItem_mc (itself
attached to a class of the same name) from the library and
duplicates it, based on data from the XML file.
code in cableList_mc:
var startY:Number = -0.8;
for (var cableName:String in VPN_Utils.cables) {
var listItem:cableListItem_mc = new cableListItem_mc();
listItem.name = cableName;
listItem.x = 0;
listItem.y = startY;
listItem.cableNameText.text =
VPN_Utils.cables[cableName][0];
addChild(listItem);
startY += 18;
code for cableListItem_mc.as (1 cableListItem_mc is basically 1
checkbox item):
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import VPN_Utils;
public class cableListItem_mc extends MovieClip {
private var checked:Boolean = true;
public function cableListItem_mc() {
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, swap);
private function swap(e:MouseEvent):void {
if (checked) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
checked = !checked;
trace (this + " " + this.name + " is " + checked);
2. cables_mc
cables_mc on the other hand just contains several movie
clips, placed manually on the stage and all of them based on the
class VPN_Cable.as
code for VPN_Cable.as:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
public class VPN_Cable extends MovieClip {
public function VPN_Cable() {
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver);
addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut);
private function onMouseOver(e:MouseEvent):void {
text_mc.visible = true;
private function onMouseOut(e:MouseEvent):void {
text_mc.visible = false;
So basically now what I want to achieve is to control and
talk to the cables from the scroll pane. So when I uncheck "Cable
1" in the scroll pane, "Cable 1" on the stage should turn invisible
for example.
I hope this is clear....
Thanks a lot! in advance!
jon.

Answer 1

Hi kglad!
uhhh, thnx a lot for u reply =] but it's not exactly this
that i'm looking for. Well yeah, i know i have to assign mouse
listeners to my checkboxes (....) (and I already have actually),
but could you give some details about that? That would help
greatly. My problem is that I don't know how to talk to the cables
(which are in a separate movie) from the checkboxes (which are in
yet another movie).
Thanks!
And happy new year!
jon.