http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T08:21:31 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000061.html#80173 To answer the previous question, the following code works. It seems:<br />1) classes cannot be defined within a frame,<br />2) external .as files must define a class within a package.<br />(lines with slashes are just used to delimit each piece)<br />/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br />package<br />{<br /> import flash.display.MovieClip;<br /> trace("inside package");<br /> public class Example03 extends MovieClip<br /> {<br /> static var _message:String = "Some Static Message";<br /> public var _message:String = "Some Non-Static Message";<br /> public function Example03()<br /> {<br /> trace("Hello");<br /> hola();<br /> trace("_message:", this._message);<br /> trace("_message:", Example03._message);<br /> }<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />function hola()<br />{<br /> trace("hola");<br />}<br />//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br />Output:<br />//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br />inside package<br />Hello<br />hola<br />_message: Some Non-Static Message<br />_message: Some Static Message<br />////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br />- Vinny vinnyguido 0 0 2008-01-31T07:17:08 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000061.html#75393 I get the error message "5006: An ActionScript file can not have more than one externally visible definition: mypackage.TestA, mypackage.hello" when I try out the function hello()-example. Any ideas on what might be wrong in the example or in my setup? Sardok 0 0 2007-10-22T07:31:48