AS3.0: Acces child's properties of created instance

Question

on my timeline i create a new instance of the class FirstClass with the following code:
var firstObject:FirstClass = new FirstClass();

the class looks like this:

package  {
    public class FirstClass extends MovieClip {
        public function FirstClass() {
            var tempObject:SecondClass = new SecondClass();
            tempObject.x = 100;
            tempObject.y = 200;
        }
        public function getTempObjectXpos():Number{
            return tempObject.x;            
        }
    }    
}

On my timeline i would like to acces the x position of the object tempObject can anyone help me ?

Answer 1

You must declare tempObject as a member of FirstClass. You cannot use objects (object references if be exact) between different methods of a class if they aren't members of this class.

Corrected code:

package  {
    public class FirstClass extends MovieClip {
        public function FirstClass() {
            tempObject = new SecondClass();
            tempObject.x = 100;
            tempObject.y = 200;
        }
        public function getTempObjectXpos():Number{
            return tempObject.x;            
        }

        private var tempObject:SecondClass = null;
    }
}