Noob question about adding a child

Question

I'm exercising scripting and struggling with adding a child to a object when the creation of the child is wrapped in this function
function makeBox():void {
var box:Shape = new Shape;
box.graphics.beginFill(0x66FF00);
box.graphics.lineStyle(5, 0x6600CC);
box.graphics.drawRect(mouseX, mouseY, 50, 50);
addChild(box);
Now I want to add the above shape as a child to this object
var Clip:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
addChild(Clip);
if the first code was not a finction I have no problem to add the child by  Clip.addChild(box); but I cant figure out how to use it if it is as a function.

Answer 1

I'm not clear on your true goal, but the thing with having all that code in the function is that because you declare the box inside the function it only has scope within the function.  If you want something outside the function to be able to utilize it then you need to declare it outside the function...
var Clip:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
addChild(Clip);
var box:Shape;
makeBox():
Clip.addChild(box);
function makeBox():void {
     box = new Shape();
     box.graphics.beginFill(0x66FF00);
     box.graphics.lineStyle(5, 0x6600CC);
     box.graphics.drawRect(mouseX, mouseY, 50, 50);