having issues working with movie clips inside of an array [as3] - arrays

Question

In a game I'm making, I'm trying to have sprites put on top of a hit box. The best way I could think of accomplishing this is to make two arrays; one for the hit boxes, and one for the sprites, and then have the sprites stay on top of their respective hit-box via a for loop that will be in its own script.
Problem is, is that when I try to get the MovieClips in either of the arrays to do anything, it doesn't work. If I do a trace on the X or Y location of the sprites, I get "undefined" in my terminal. I'm going to explain this from the top down.
Here is an excerpt from my class that contains the for loop (Dasengine is my main class fyi)
for(var i:Number = 0; i < Dasengine.ovrcnt.length; i++){
trace(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i].x); //returns "undefined"
trace(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i]); //returns "object Onmea"
Dasengine.ovrcnt[i].x = Dasengine.enemycnt[i].x;//this isn't working
}
In another script when an enemy spawns, they go through this method.
if(ENEMY SPAWN CONDITION IS MET ){
Dasengine.baddie = new nme_spawn.Enemya(); //ENEMY HITBOX
Dasengine.Obaddie = new nme_overlay.Onmea(); //ENEMY's sprite
Dasengine.enemycnt[cntup] = [Dasengine.baddie]; //Enemy's Hit box movie clip is put in array meant for holding enemy movie clips
Dasengine.ovrcnt[cntup] = [Dasengine.Obaddie]; //Enemy sprites that go over the hit boxes are stored here
cntup++; //this is so movie clips are put in new parts of the array
}
in my main class, the movie clips are declared as follows also I have the addChild functionality in there.
public static var Obaddie:nme_overlay.Onmea;
//^variable for sprite
public static var baddie:nme_spawn.Enemya;
//^variable for hitbox
also Obaddie= Overlay baddie. Its the MovieClip that acts as what goes on top of the hitbox, this is what the player will see
badde = is simply the hitbox. This contains the "meat" of the enemy ai.
I talked about this with some friends and they thought I might need to define what 'X' is inside of the class of the object that is in the array. So I did the following
package nme_overlay {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import nme_spawn.*;
public class Onmea extends MovieClip{
// Constants:
// Public Properties:
// Private Properties:
public static var xloc:int = 0;
// Initialization:
public function Onmea() {
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, overlaya);
}
private function overlaya(e:Event){
xloc = 55;
//trace(xloc);
}
}
}
and then for the looping class I did this
for(var i:Number = 0; i < Dasengine.enemycnt.length; i++){
trace(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i]);//returns "object Onmea"
trace(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i].xloc);//still returns "undefined"
}

Answer 1

Your xloc variable is static--it belongs to nme_overlay, the Class, not any particular instance. If you were to do this in your code AND you had strict mode on (which I suspect you do not, because there's a lot of stuff in your code that should be giving you at least warnings), you'd get an error that would tell you exactly that:
for(var i:Number = 0; i < Dasengine.enemycnt.length; i++){
trace(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i]);//returns "object Onmea"
trace(nme_overlay(Dasengine.ovrcnt[i]).xloc);//still returns "undefined"
}