Problems with buttons inside MC added with addChild.

[Wampiro-UHA]

I have my Stage. On this I have an empty MovieClip (MC).
To begin with I do:

MCContent = new TestMC();
MC.addChild(MCContent);


This works.

But in my TestMC, I have another MovieClip Button01, which is named Button01, where I have the code:

Button01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleMouseUp);
function handleMouseUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace('Hello World);
}


But when I click on Button01 nothing happens... What am I doing wrong?

[jweeks123]

MCContent = new TestMC();
MC.addChild(MCContent);


MCContent.Button01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleMouseUp);
function handleMouseUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace('Hello World);
}

I don't have flash handy to test right now but will help more tonight if need be. But anyway, give this a whirl and let me know what happens.

[Wampiro-UHA]

That didn't work, got the error:
"...: Access of undefined property MCContent."

I tried:
Object(root).MCContent.ImageButton.addEventListene r(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleImageMouseUp);
and that don't report any error, but doesn't do anything

Any other ideas?

[jweeks123]

So Button01 is in MCContent, right?

Do you have a var declaration with the MCContent clip?

[Wampiro-UHA]

Button01 is inside TestMC, which is a MovieClip added to MC via addChild, from the code:
MCContent = new TestMC();
MC.addChild(MCContent);

Does that make sense?

[jweeks123]

var MCContent:MovieClip = new TestMC();
MC.addChild(MCContent);

So you have that, right?

If I got you now, this should do it:

trace("Here's the line up, if one returns null, we know that it isn't getting set up somewhere");
trace(MC);
trace(MC.MCContent);
trace(MC.MCContent.Button01);
trace("End of Line up");

MC.MCContent.Button01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleMouseUp);
function handleMouseUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
     trace("Hello World");
}

I added more traces as well to trace out values. They should all return Object MovieClip when traced I beleive.

[Wampiro-UHA]

I get:
Access of undefined property MC
on all 3 lines.

The code is inside TestMC and NOT my main stage, I guess that's why it cannot find MC.

[Wampiro-UHA]

If I just have the code:
trace("Here's the line up, if one returns null, we know that it isn't getting set up somewhere");
trace(Button01);
trace("End of Line up");
Button01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handleMouseUp);
function handleMouseUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace("Hello World");
}

I get:
Here's the line up, if one returns null, we know that it isn't getting set up somewhere
[object MovieClip]
End of Line up

But clikcing on the button doesn't output "Hello World".

[jweeks123]

Oh, your button code is in TestMC?

And you want a click,

Okay, try this:

Button01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleMouseClick);
function handleMouseClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     trace("Hello World");
}

My apologies, I must have misunderstood you.

Let me know if this works for you.

[Wampiro-UHA]

That worked! What is the difference?

[jweeks123]

the MOUSE_UP event is really not meant for the functionality you were after. The CLICK event is what's meant to handle the event of capturing a mouse press. The MOUSE_UP event is kinda sketchy honestly. It's made to handle when the mouse is let up but it doesn't always do that.