Flash Var Loader Issue

Question

I have three classes and a container .swf: Game - this loads all assets and game mechanics. Tile - Creates a square and loads image an image via flash Var. TicTacToe.as - This creates a game instance and is linked via container.swf

In my Game class I have the following code which works fine when I save and compile, and is able to load my images when I update to my .asp page(I am getting the data from a db and passing to flash vars).

var gridUrl:String = "img/" + loaderInfo.parameters.theme + "grid.png";
            var gridPos:XMLList = theXML.GRID;
            gridLoader.load(new URLRequest(gridUrl));
            grid = new MovieClip();
            grid.addChild(gridLoader);

When I add this code to the Tile.as to load an image for the square I get a compiler error 1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. with an error on this line:

var tileBurl:String = "img/" + loaderInfo.parameters.theme + "square.jpg";

Its working in the Game.as class but this same line isn't in my Tile.as and I can't figure out why, even locally when it can't find the variables Game.as simply lists them as "undefined" where as in Tile.as it throws a fit at loaderInfo.parameters, and loaderInfo lists them as "null". Any Help would be appreciated thanks!

Answer 1

It looks that in the time of calling loaderInfo object, this is not yet prepared. Try to delay execution of the code for example by adding empty frame at the begining.