Library movie clip not readable

I apologize if this seems like a stupid question, but I've
only been using flash for a month, and I've been teaching myself
how. I'm attempting to make a simple interactive clip where an
onscreen icon performs an action when clicked on. Since it's a
graphic, I created the movie clip in the library. When I go to
reference it in actionscript (AS3), the code doesn't seem to
recognize what I'm doing. The code being used is this:
function onclick(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndPlay('Click');
your_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onclick);
'Click' is the label of the frame I want it to jump to. If
necessary, I could convert it into Actionscript 2. Thanks in
advanced!

Telling it not to "act" like a button constitutes removing
any button-like actions [e.g. on(click)] and making sure its symbol
behavior in the Library is "Movie clip" and not "Button." However,
if you simply want to remove the hand cursor...
useHandCursor = false;

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dkmiles wrote:
> I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in
a main scene. The mask
> looks fine while editing/working the movie clip, but
does not show up in the
> scene.
>
> The really strange thing is that it was working, but
suddenly now it won't
> show up in the scene any longer. I've tried replacing
it, making a new layer
> and bringing it in again. But nothing works.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of why this would be?
>
> Any help GREATLY appreciated!
>
> dm
>

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I the code below I want to add the following array of movie clips: activeLevelofTilesArray
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ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property [object S],[object T],...etc.
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Thanks, I moved the shuffle function out of activeLevelofTiles like you said and it still works. Yippeeeee
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I'm not doing this whole tile business correctly. As you predicted - If I trace the tile_index value I see only one tile eg. [object a]. It gives me a different one every time so I know the suffle function still works. I need for it to shuffle through the entire active level *3 so that "the tiles fall from the sky" individually generated by the timer that I have built. I guess I have to add it to an event handler.
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yes, it makes sense and yes, you'll need to learn a little.
I have 50 movie clips not linked to any actionscript in the movie.
that's incorrect. those movieclips are linked to all the actionscript that applies to their class. so, even if those movieclips weren't part of the GeoClass, they still have all the properties, methods and events of the movieclip class (created by adobe developers).
The fact these movieclips are actually GeoGroup objects extending the movieclip class, adds even more code to them. and, so far that's all good and exactly what you should do.
They are all on the stage. They are all named with their instance names "puzzleAZ" "puzzleTX" etc.
no problem, usually. (but in your case, a problem explained below.)
I want to be able to add variables to them, such as strings and numbers, so that I can call puzzleAZ.size or puzzleAZ.fullName to get "XX Acres" or "Arizona" returned.
so, in programming lingo you want your objects to be members of a dynamic (ie, you can add properties) class. the movieclip class is just such a class.
I created a separate class (GeoGroup) that extends MovieClip that has in it all the variables I need and tried to assign each movie clip to that class.
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1. remove the parameters from the constructor
2. don't add any class members to the stage in the authoring environment.
p.s. this is your GeoGroup constructor:
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the paramters that contructor requires are 2 strings, one number and one boolean.

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