AS3 Stage.width not working??

I'm just getting started with AS3 - sorry for the stupid question. All I need to do is access the stage dimensions. I can't use Stage.width or Stage.stageWidth without getting this compile error: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property width through a reference with static type Class.

Stage.width in AS2 was a static property off of the Stage class. In AS3 they are now class properties for the stage instance. The stage instance is accessible from the stage property of DisplayObject instances such as your main timeline.

code:

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//main timeline:

trace(stage.stageWidth);

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http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthre...13#post1952513

Won't work for me either, even if I write

this.width = stage.stagewidth;

No matter what I do, won't work

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Sid1120

Won't work for me either, even if I write

this.width = stage.stagewidth;

No matter what I do, won't work

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capital W - stageWidth

Ok - I was using a capital S in Stage as if it were a class, but if it is lowercase to treat it as an instance it works. Thank you, Senocular!