registering a property with in a class

[buggedcom]

I am currious if it is possible to register a property that is global to the class only.

for instance.

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
    var cB = this;
    this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
        cB.urlOption.gotoAndStop("over");
    };
    this.urlOption.onRollOut = function() {
        cB.urlOption.gotoAndStop("up");
    };
    this.urlOption.onPress = function() {
        cB.urlOption.gotoAndStop("down");
    };
    this.urlOption.onRelease = function() {
        if (cB.debug_options) {
            cB.callDebugger("This url : "+cB.urlArray[cB.iLoadNumber-1]+" was launched, which opened in the : "+cB.get_UrlWindow+" window.");
        }
        getURL(cB.urlArray[cB.iLoadNumber-1], cB.get_UrlWindow);
        cB.urlOption.gotoAndStop("over");
    };
    this.urlOption.onReleaseOutside = function() {
        cB.urlOption.gotoAndStop("up");
    };
};

instead of registering the var cB to this every time i create a button is it possible to create it globally but just within the class so it doesn't interfer with the root?

Also is there an easier way to call 'this' rather than assign it to the variable. I tried _parent but that didn't work. Any ideas?

[jimburton]

global is global is global AFAIK If I understand what your code is trying to do, you can do it by creating a timeline property in an object, like

function Class1() {
child=new Class2();
child.tl = this;
child.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.tl.class1Method(); // calls a method on the parent
}
}

in the same way that is v useful when working with xml objects and loadvars...any help?

[buggedcom]

er...right

i really don't understand that. does this mean that i don't have to create

var cB = this

before i call cB? Or does it mean that i wouldn't have to specify cB at all and i could just refer to the component as this in the button code?

how would this function look if it where to come under the imageweaver class? I'm really at a loss to how to implement it?

[jimburton]

sorry I'm being unclear...all I'm suggesting is a shortcut to creating your cb var every time...so when you create the urlOption object you do something like:

this.urlOption.tl = this;

so then you can always refer to the timeline of your component:

this.urlOption.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.tl.doSomething();
}

but looking at your code, you should be able to simplify it, can't you just go:

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
        this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
              [b]  this.gotoAndStop("over");[/b]??
        };
};

[buggedcom]

Thanks i understand a little more now. In regards to just

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndStop("over");??
};
};

i wouldn't been able to do that because when the roll over function is created, everythiing inside the function {} refers to the mc that the function was created on. so this instead of refering to the component timeline becomes this for the urlOption. In that respect i don't think

this.urlOption.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.tl.doSomething();
}

would work either.

[buggedcom]

my mistake... that would work but isn't it practically the same as what i am doing anyway because i would still have to declare

this.whateverMC.t1 = this;

everytime it needed to be applied to a different object?

[jimburton]

sorry bugged, you've lost me! so the target of the rollover etc functions of a urlOption clip change over time? then could you set the functions up once

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
        this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
                  this.tl.gotoAndStop("over");??
        };
};

then just change the value of this.urlOption.tl to change the outcome of the rollover? Maybe I'm not getting it,

[buggedcom]

.... it is all a bit confusing ...


the targets don't change they stay the same.

in the example below.... this.("over"); would refer to 'this.urlOption' so in that effect you are correct and i should adjust my code accordingly but...

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
        this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
                this.("over");
        };
};

... in this example i am trying to call a function in the component timeline aswell as tell the urloption to go to over. but it sees this.callFunction(); as a function in the urloption timeline and not in the component timeline.

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
        this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
                this.("over");
                this.callFunction();
        };
};

do you follow now?

[jimburton]

I think that's what I was suggesting...but I can't be sure! the tl property will allow you to manipulate the main comp. timeline:

imageWeaver.prototype.createButton_getUrl = function() {
this.urlOption.tl = this;
        this.urlOption.onRollOver = function() {
                this.gotoAndPlay("over");
                this.tl.callFunction();
        };
};

[buggedcom]

for sure but isn't that pretty much the same as i was doing anyway. assigning a variable before use then using it?

I just wanted to assign the variable once in the entires class because i use 'cB' a lot through out many different functions within the class.