Comments on: Why doesn't the "parent" property work the same in ActionScript 3?

By: Mariana

Mariana — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:29:26 +0000

THANK YOU!!!

I wasted almost two weeks trying to pass data between parent & child swfs until I read your article.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:10:16 +0000

You saved another one who has put off AS3 for ever because of stuff like this. It worked. I don’t understand what “casting” means but it got me past the road block. My example looked like:

stop();
trace(“we are at the end”);
(this.parent as MovieClip).beach2_mc.visible = true;
(this.parent as MovieClip).beach2_mc.play();

I still don’t like AS3, it’s way over blown for making simple animations…

By: Radu

Radu — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:16:07 +0000

Brilliant!! Thank you very much for this!!

By: Malika

Malika — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:28:48 +0000

Thank you very much for posting this. I’m new to actionscript so even though the focus of your article was to explain why the parent method for as3 is better, I learned what it means to actually access a parent class.

By: amartinez

amartinez — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:57:17 +0000

great! thanks!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:21:43 +0000

Thank you very much! I was looking how to do it correctly in AS3 and not just turning off the strict mode.

By: Kushagra Atre

Kushagra Atre — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:12:36 +0000

thanks a lot

By: redbcn

redbcn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:45:24 +0000

Thank you very much! I was about to quit with AS3 to focus again on AS2

By: CucaLagrande

CucaLagrande — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:23:55 +0000

thanks very usefull and handy tip
thanks for sharing

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