Class's movieclip calling a function in it's own class

[expert464]

For the life of me I can't find an internet source that explains why this doesn't work. I know it's a scope problem but I know no other way around it and there must be a way to do it, I'm thinking.

I have a class. Inside this class I create a movieclip which I have a class variable link to. The movieclip is created on _root. When I click on this movieclip, I want it to call a function inside the class. Here's what it looks like.

class Whatever extends Movieclip {
  private var mc:MovieClip;

  public function Whatever() {
    this.mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("rootmc",_root.getNextHighestDepth());
    [code for drawing a square]
    this.mc.onPress = this.doSomething();
  }

  public function doSomething {
    [do something]
  }

In the above sample, when I click on the movieclip, the "doSomething" function is not called, obviously because the movieclip is on root and has nothing to do with the class. Is there a way to do what I want to do?

[kortex]

umm if this is what i think it is, usually the following will "fix" it:

class Whatever extends Movieclip {
private var mc:MovieClip;

public function Whatever() {
thisClass = this;
this.mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("rootmc",_root.getNextH ighestDepth());
[code for drawing a square]
this.mc.onPress = thisClass.doSomething();
}

public function doSomething {
[do something]
}

try it and see if that does the trick

[expert464]

No, that doesn't seem to work. It gives me an error that the property doesn't exist so I do

var thisClass = this;

instead, and then it accepts it but does not work. Maybe I need to rethink what I am doing.

[expert464]

Nevermind, that actually did work. Thank you very much.