LoaderMax in Document Structure

[soupking]

Hi Jack,

 

I'm trying to incorporate LoaderMax into my "header" class as a "loader" class. Well, actually I'm first trying to simplify that by just loading the "loader" class straight into the FLA.

 

However, no matter what I do it wants to instance it as a MovieClip. ??

 

Here's the code:

 

package  {

import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.loading.*;
import com.greensock.events.LoaderEvent;


public class TheLoader {


	public function TheLoader() {
		//create a LoaderMax named "mainQueue" and set up onProgress, onComplete and onError listeners
		var queueXML:LoaderMax = new LoaderMax({name:"xmlQueue", onProgress:progressHandler, onComplete:completeHandler, onError:errorHandler});
		//append several loaders
		queueXML.append( new XMLLoader("_xml/menu3.xml", {name:"xmlDoc"}) );

		function progressHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
			trace("progress: " + event.target.progress);
		}
		function completeHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
			trace(event.target + " is complete!");
		}
		function errorHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
			trace("error occured with " + event.target + ": " + event.text);
		}
	}
}

}

 

What am I missing/need to remove? I'm not sure where the logic disconnect is.

[GreenSock]

However, no matter what I do it wants to instance it as a MovieClip. ??

 

What do you mean it wants to "instance it as a MovieClip"?

 

I noticed you never call load() on the queueXML and you're using nested functions for the onComplete, onProgress, and onError - that's typically a bad idea because nested functions are deleted as soon as the parent function finishes running. I'm still unclear as to what the problem is with the "instance it as a MovieClip" thing. Mind posting an example that demonstrates the issue?

[soupking]

Doh!

 

Gosh, how amateur of me. I typically never do nested functions, my bad. I changed that now. I knew better than that.

 

This is what it keeps telling me though:

 

/Volumes/G-DRIVE mini/_main/_suitcase/_classes/_mine/com/TheLoader.as, Line 1 5000: The class 'TheLoader' must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.

 

...How? Is there some library I'm importing that involves movieclips?

[GreenSock]

Sounds like you've got a MovieClip in your library that's associated with the TheLoader class. Whenever you do that, the class must extend MovieClip (kinda makes sense because the object is a MovieClip in the Flash IDE).

[soupking]

Yeah, I have a movieclip in the library and was trying to test the loader class directly into the movie.

 

That must be what the problem was.

 

As always...

 

Thanks Jack!