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[X3N]

Hi everyone - I'm new to Flash, trying to port a fairly simple game of mine which has just few objects moving around the screen, chasing each other. Lo and behold, this is more difficult than I expected.

I do iPhone development full-time for work, and would be happy to trade some of my time for yours. Right now I have a few noobish questions like.. how do I subclass without "TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor.
   at as3circle()". How do I dynamically create objects and change their image, etc.

I've made two iPhone games - they need some redesign/rebalancing work but I do understand basic/intermediate game programming for iPhone.

Considered posting in "Technical" but think this might be a better place for it?

Happy holidays!

EDIT: If your answer is "Learn Flixel" then.. let me know!

[knight]

Learn Flashpunk 
No, but really flashpunk and flixel are great ways to prototype quickly if thats what you want. If you want to do it yourself(which isn't that hard if your familiar with oop) you should check out the livedocs.

[zuperxtreme]

I don't quite understand what you're asking.

Sub-classing(inheritance and all that jazz), is done using 'extend'. For example:

Code:

package 
{
	public class A
	{
		public var aVariable:String = "A variable from class 'A'!";
		public function A():void {
			trace("Hi!");
		}
	}
	
}

package 
{
	import A;
	public class B extends A
	{
		public function B():void {
			trace(aVariable);
		}
	}
	
}

What exactly are you having problems with?

[X3N]

Some trouble making a new object on the visual editor be a different class. I think I just need to go through some tutorials