[RESOLVED] [F8] External .as onLoad function help

Hello everyone, I am having trouble getting an onLoad to work correctly.

I have a dynamic text box that I populate with a button on the stage. I am using an external .as file to tell everything what to to and how to do it.

My problem is, with this method I have to give the dynamic textbox both a var name and an instance name, otherwise my coding will not work. That spawns the problem that the dynamic text box is filled with the "Level0.mc.textbox" gibberish when the movie loads.

If I tell the textbox to display "" on load it won't work.

So far the only way I have found to do this is to place this on the parent MC (that holds the textbox)

Code:

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onClipEvent(load){
        this.dynamicTxt = "";
}

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Where "this" is the parent MC and "dynamicTxt" is the var and instance name of the text box.

I am trying to find a way to put this in the .as file, but nothing I have tried works, including setting a function, or using relative and/or absolute pointers.

Anyone have any ideas?

~MoN

I got it. Just used this.onLoad = function() {} in the .as and it works.

Although how the as knows what "this" is doesn't make much sense to me. LOL

~MoN