static class troubles

[mikeMarek]

...I can't believe I'm posting this... Sorry for the relatively "simple" question, but here goes.

So, I've been using a static class called Maths that contains my own mathematical functions (such as significant figure rounding, angle and distance functions, etc.). I made it static for the same reasons AS3 makes it's Math class static; to avoid declaring a class instance to reference internal functions.

My troubles arise when I reference these static functions inside of another class. They work perfectly fine when called upon the stage:

//this is on the stage/Document class
import engine.utils.Maths;
trace(Maths.FOOBAR());

Yet do not work when called upon inside of my own classes:

//this is in a custom class
package engine
{
	import engine.utils.Maths;
	
	public class Shapes
	{
		public function Shapes():void
		{
			trace(Maths.FOOBAR());
		}
	};
};

And yet, oddly enough again, works perfectly fine when using FlashDevelop, but when making small demo projects in Flash itself, gives me the ever fruitful error message:

1061: Call to a possibly undefined method FOOBAR through a reference with static type Class.

I've really stumped myself here... No amount of Google could help me... I would appreciate any help you guys could offer, or alternative solutions suggested.

Again, thanks a lot Newgrounds community, you're always so helpful and friendly :)

Best regards,
Mike

[ProfessorFlash]

Flash can't find the class. So in a nutshell: "engine.utils.Maths" path is wrong. Find out where the class really is located. And tbh, I don't understand why you are trying to make it work in flash when you say you have flash develop and everything works fine there.

[egg82]

At 6/14/12 01:13 PM, mikeMarek wrote: ...I can't believe I'm posting this... Sorry for the relatively "simple" question, but here goes.

So, I've been using a static class called Maths that contains my own mathematical functions (such as significant figure rounding, angle and distance functions, etc.). I made it static for the same reasons AS3 makes it's Math class static; to avoid declaring a class instance to reference internal functions.

My troubles arise when I reference these static functions inside of another class. They work perfectly fine when called upon the stage:

//this is on the stage/Document class
import engine.utils.Maths;
trace(Maths.FOOBAR());

Yet do not work when called upon inside of my own classes:

//this is in a custom class
package engine
{
import engine.utils.Maths;

public class Shapes
{
public function Shapes():void
{
trace(Maths.FOOBAR());
}
};
};

And yet, oddly enough again, works perfectly fine when using FlashDevelop, but when making small demo projects in Flash itself, gives me the ever fruitful error message:

1061: Call to a possibly undefined method FOOBAR through a reference with static type Class.

I've really stumped myself here... No amount of Google could help me... I would appreciate any help you guys could offer, or alternative solutions suggested.

Again, thanks a lot Newgrounds community, you're always so helpful and friendly :)

Best regards,
Mike

Maths - you Englanders are going to drive me crazy with your grammar xD

anyway - i'm not sure exactly what's going on (as we don't have the actual class), but I did a quick google and it came up with some possible solutions

I know you already said you've googled it, but maybe I used different wording. Check it out anyway :P

[Sam]

Maths - you Englanders are going to drive me crazy with your grammar xD

Mathematics
Maths

[mikeMarek]

@ProfessorFlash: It's not the pathing that's wrong; I tried calling non-static methods from a completely different class located in the same path, and it works fine.

@egg82: I'm Canadian, I only used Maths since it's similar to Math and it keeps naming conventions pretty easy to remember lol. I thought the same thing upon creating the class though, "let's use American spelling convention for this!"
The Google page, however, had every link purple'd out except the first link haha. I already skimmed through most of them lol. I will try wording everything differently in some future searches, so thanks for the hint.
Love the signature btw, same reason I became a programmer :3

I'll re-post this as SOLVED if I ever do figure this out... Thanks for the couple of posts though! Quick responses, you guys are great!

[mikeMarek]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

You guys aren't gonna fucking believe this....

It had to do with the LITERAL naming of the class...

I changed the class name to Mathz (you know, because every cool mathematician spells with a Z) and it worked like a charm... I swear to God if I ever meet the designer of AS3 I'm gonna punch him it the skull...

So, I guess you could say this thread is RESOLVED.

Thanks for those two posts ProfessorFlash and egg82, sending good vibes your way :)

Cheers,
Mike