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copied!<p>Ok. So the problem here is a little misunderstanding. You are creating an instance of a adamsboxmaker class and the reference is then automatically returned and stored in the txt variable. This is how Object Orientated languages work.</p> <p>What you are trying to do is use a factory method to create an object. To implement this, change your createBox to a public static function </p> <pre><code> public static function createBox(boxWidth:Number,boxHeight:Number,lineColour:Number,lineThickness:int, beginFillColour:Number, fillIf:Boolean, fontColour:Number, fontSize:int, fontType:String, textWidth:Number, textHeight:Number, txt:String, Xoffset:Number, Yoffset:Number, textIf:Boolean){ </code></pre> <p>and remove the call from inside the constructor. </p> <pre><code>public function adamsboxmaker(boxWidth:Number,boxHeight:Number,lineColour:Number,lineThickness:int, beginFillColour:Number, fillIf:Boolean, fontColour:Number, fontSize:int, fontType:String, textWidth:Number, textHeight:Number, txt:String, Xoffset:Number, Yoffset:Number, textIf:Boolean) { //removed call } </code></pre> <p>Then all you need to do is </p> <pre><code>txt = adamsboxmaker.createBox(paramters); </code></pre> <p><strong>Re: Question in comment</strong></p> <p>In this case you want your adamsboxmaker to be the box. So first make the class extend MovieClip</p> <pre><code>public class adamsboxmaker extends MovieClip { </code></pre> <p>You can now consider the instance of this class to be the same as the container:MovieClip you were creating. Add this code into the constructor:</p> <pre><code> public function adamsboxmaker(boxWidth:Number,boxHeight:Number,lineColour:Number,lineThickness:int, beginFillColour:Number, fillIf:Boolean, fontColour:Number, fontSize:int, fontType:String, textWidth:Number, textHeight:Number, txt:String, Xoffset:Number, Yoffset:Number, textIf:Boolean){ var theBox:Shape = new Shape(); addChild(theBox); //we add it to this, rather than a container theBox.graphics.lineStyle(lineThickness, lineColour); if (fillIf == true) { theBox.graphics.beginFill(beginFillColour); } theBox.graphics.moveTo(0, 0); theBox.graphics.lineTo(boxWidth, 0); theBox.graphics.lineTo(boxWidth, boxHeight); theBox.graphics.lineTo(0, boxHeight); theBox.graphics.lineTo(0, 0); if (fillIf == true) { theBox.graphics.endFill(); } /*END BOX*/ if (textIf == true) { /*BUILD FORMATTING*/ var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); myFormat.color = fontColour; myFormat.size = fontSize; myFormat.font = fontType; /*END FORMATTING*/ /*BUILD TEXTFIELD*/ var theText:TextField = new TextField(); theText.text = txt; theText.x = Xoffset; theText.y = Yoffset; theText.width = textWidth; theText.height = textHeight; theText.wordWrap = true; theText.setTextFormat(myFormat); container.addChild(theText); /*END TEXTFIELD*/ } visible = false; } </code></pre> <p>Now you can go </p> <pre><code>txt = new adamsboxmaker(parameters); addChild(txt); </code></pre>

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