Integrating methods from a class file into AS2 object

Basically I have an Object that’s stored in my library, and I have a Class file for it. When I don’t say

Game.ballHandler["Ball0"] = new brickSmasherBall();

The Object appears on my screen, but it doesn’t inherit the methods I want. But if I do put that, it has the methods, but doesn’t appear on screen.

Any way I can get the best of both worlds? Is there something I have to do in the library to make them compatible? Or can’t that happen in AS2?

Forgive my ignorance, but why do you say

Game.ballHandler["Ball0"]

What is ballHandler that you can access some object by passing in a String in the []?

Originally posted by UnknownGuardian:

Forgive my ignorance, but why do you say

Game.ballHandler["Ball0"]

What is ballHandler that you can access some object by passing in a String in the []?

You can do that with an instance of any dynamic class (MovieClips, Arrays, Objects etc)

Is there something I have to do in the library to make them compatible?

You need to use attachMovie instead of creating a new object. If that isn’t working, there must be a problem with your linkage. If you tick export for actionscript and make sure the ‘class’ field matches the name of the class exactly it should work.

=) Found the problem.

I had previously done all that you said to do Moonkey (match the class name, attachMovie), but I called the class before importing it. I’m so dumb =P