Comments on: Why doesn’t the “parent” property work the same in ActionScript 3?

By: jose

jose — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:38:48 +0000

Guy you are awesome thx for helping me with this. for a moment i thought parent was unaccessible from asc3 and was a little bi limitedfor a year to he point i couldn’t create my age of empires likegame now i can thx a lot

By: ippolit

ippolit — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:29:48 +0000

you are a golden god!

By: madhat

madhat — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:04:18 +0000

great explanation

By: manuel guillen

manuel guillen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:07:15 +0000

Thanks a lot!! you are wonderful man!! You are an excellent friend. Thanks for share your knowledge. God Bless You.

By: idoyan

idoyan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:52:00 +0000

thank you.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:44 +0000

Turning off Strict Mode applies to ActionSCript files as well. It’s not just the timeline.

You still must import classes to extend them, even with Strict Mode off. If you want to extend Sprite, you still need this:

import flash.display.Sprite;

By: Adam F

Adam F — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29:43 +0000

Very useful thanks.
However I’m still having a few problems when writing my own classes, as I can’t refer to other classes within them.
And unfortunately I can’t find an option to turn off strict mode while in .as files.
For example here is (some of) the code in the class.. any suggestions on getting around the error ‘The definition of base class Graphics (or the highest parent class I list) not found.’

public class DrawLine extends Graphics
{
	protected var x1Pos;
	public function DrawLine(...)
	{
		Graphics.beginFill()
	}
}

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:58 +0000

Very nice post, congratulation. I’m an italian graphic designer who starts with AS 3.0 some month ago and I found this article very interesting.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:34 +0000

Awesome page, have been looking for this solution forever

By: Vishwa

Vishwa — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:53:50 +0000

Very Nice post!! You saved my day dear!! Thanks.