Re: Short syntax for accessing nested display objects? (AS3)

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On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:35 PM, keith wrote:

> Is there a reason you can't access the Sprite with the variable you  
> first created?
> cont.visible=false;
>
> -- Keith H --
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> Alistair Colling wrote:
>> Hiya everyone, good to see the list back up and running.
>>
>>  I'm trying to access a sprite that is inside of 2 other sprites  
>> and I have 2 questions about this:
>>
>> 1) It seems that the syntax for targeting this sprite once it is  
>> created is quite long winded (2 temporary vars have to be created):
>>
>> var cont:Sprite = new Sprite();
>> this.addChild(cont);
>> var cont1:Sprite = new Sprite();
>> cont.addChild(cont1);
>> var child1:Sprite = new H1();
>>
>> var target =cont.getChildByName("cont1");
>> var targ2 = target.getChildByName("child1");
>> targ2._visible = false;
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2) Also, I can't data type my target var as a Sprite otherwise I  
>> get an error (unless I cast  the type as well).
>>
>> If anyone knows of a better of doing this I would be really  
>> interested to hear it :)
>> Cheers,
>> Ali
>>
>>
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