classpath in as3 flashdevelop

Question

I am very new in AS3. I use FlashDevelop 4. I have no Adobe Flash, just FD (pure AS3) I have problems with classpath. I searched the database but I found nothing that could help me. So the problem is as follow.

I have the project "Testing" in C:\AS App\Testing with the file Main.as. I have, also, the folder C:\AS App\W_T. In this folder is the file write_text.as. The file Main.as looks like that:

package
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.*;
import W_T.write_text;
public class Main extends Sprite
{
    var t:TextField=new TextField();

    public function Main():void
    {
            stage.addChild(t);
            stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, write);
    }

    public function write(me:MouseEvent):void
    {
        var wt:W_T.write_text = new W_T.write_text();
            t.x = 100;
            t.y = 100;          
            t.text = wt.output();
    }
}
}

The file write_text.as looks like that:

package W_T
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.*;
import W_T.*;

public class write_text
{
    public function write_text()
    {
    }

    public function output():String 
    {
        var txt:String;

        txt = "From function !";
        return(txt);
    }
}
}

I make the appropriate specification in the global classpath. But I get the following errors:

Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: write_text. var wt:W_T.write_text = new W_T.write_text();

Error: Call to a possibly undefined method write_text. var wt:W_T.write_text = new W_T.write_text();

Definition W_T:write_text could not be found. import W_T.write_text;

Could you help me please to find where I have done wrong ?

Thank you.

EB

BadFeelingAboutThis BadFeelingAboutThis · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-21T20:16:18

The problem is the compiler isn't finding your write_text.as file. By default, it will be looking here:

C:\AS App\Testing\W_T\write_text.as

Try adjusting accordingly and see if it works. When you declare package W_T { } flash will look in a subfolder called W_T for a file with the same name as the public class.

When you declare just simply package { } with no name, it will look in the root of your class library path, which seems to be a folder called Testing if that's where your main.as file is living.

If you wanted to use a common folder for your class files (that isn't nested in an individual projects folder), you can tell flash develop where to find them by going to: project -> properties, then the Classpaths tab. By default flash develop will only look in folders relative to the project.

classpath in as3 flashdevelop

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