Adding a Child

Question

Help!
I'm not understanding how to add a child to a MovieClip. When
I put in
Oregon.addChild(Baker);
where Oregon is a MovieClip converted to a symbol and
Baker is also a MovieClip converted to a symbol and on the
flash timeline, I get the following error:
1017: The definition of base class MovieClip was not
found.�
Any ideas for this clueless newbie?

Answer 1

As a very simplistic test I created an FLA and defined two
movie clip symbols in the library, one a rectangle I called Oregon
and another a circle I called Baker. I dragged one copy of each on
to the stage, and I gave an instance name of "Oregon" to the copy
of Oregon, and an instance name of "Baker" to the copy of Baker. I
placed Oregon in the center of the stage and Baker off the stage so
it wouldn't appear when I tested the movie clip. Each instance is
on a separate layer, and my movie is only one frame in length.
I added the following code to the first frame on a third
layer:
Baker.x = 0;
Baker.y = 0;
Oregon.addChild(Baker);
trace(Oregon,Baker);
When I run the clip, the circle shows up centered on the
rectangle, and the output window shows:
[object MovieClip] [object MovieClip]
The point of all this is that I found it kind of strange the
type of errors you're getting, and especially that the result of
the trace statement kglad asked you to make was Class Oregon, Class
Baker. I think that somehow you don't have a correct definition of
the items you're trying to implement, and therefore you're getting
the resultant errors. How exactly did you create your instances of
Oregon and Baker in your FLA file?