Accessing main class stage event listener.

Question

I wanted to remove an event listener from main class stage, but i get the error 1120: Access of undefined property stage. How do I actually access the stage?

custom class:

import main;
main.disableVcam();

main class:

public static function disableVcam():void {
            trace("disable");
            stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, movevC);
        }

Answer 1

Unless the object is on the display stage, the stage object will be undefined (or null). You have to addChild the object for the stage object to have a value.

Edit: Perhaps you can handle this in the event handler?

protected function clickHandler(e :Event) :void {
    if (e.target.stage) {
        e.target.stage.removeEventListener(...);
    }
}

Edit2: Static methods don't have a stage, so to solve your problem you can make your Main-class a singleton, and work like this:

public class Main {
    static private var instance :Main;

    static public function getInstance() :Main {
        if (Main.instance == undefined) {
            Main.instance = new Main();
        }

        return Main.instance;
    }

    // The rest of the class goes here
}


// snip

import Main;

public static function disableVcam():void {
    trace("disable");
    Main.getInstance().stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, movevC);
}

If your Main-class is the main class of the project, you need to assign the static instance variable's value in the constructor.