Learning AS3

[Mint_Sauce]

I'm trying to learn AS3 from scratch, i've done a tiny bit of Java which seems similar. I spent all of yesterday learning it as much as I could but didn't get too far. Looking for good forums or online tutorials to get me up to speed. Any recommended books would be cool too.

 

[Mint_Sauce]

Ended up on Lynda.com with a weeks free trial access to everything. Pretty good tutorials!

I'm stuck again though and was hoping someone could help. I have a function that needs to query a variable in a movie clip but as it's in a movie it says it's undefined. I defined it as a number on the main stage but not sure how to make it global? I think that's my problem, the variable in the movie isn't associated with the main stage one even though they have the same name.

Main stage actions

var shrinkState:Number = 0;

movie clip actions

shrinkState = 1;

Error that shows is 1120: Access of undefined property shrinkState

 

[Mint_Sauce]

I tried that but it comes back with

1120: Access of undefined property _root.

I also tried _parent.shrinkState = 1;

but same thing.