accessing child movieClips FlashDevelop - apache-flex

Question

I have a movieClip within another MovieClip. I gave the child movieClip the instance name "hSprite" and I added it to the parent movieClip stage. Now I get an error like the following.
[Fault] exception, information=ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property hSprite on com.objects.Hero.
If I remove the instance name from the child movieclip, then the error goes away. but when I add the instance name back, the error reappears again.
Keep in mind that both classes are set for export.
The parent class is embeded by a custom class which work perfectly fine. But the minute I give the child movieClip a instance name, the error starts up again.
Here is the class that embeds the parent class. What I initially want to do is access the child MovieClip that is in the Hero symbol
package com.objects
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
/**
* ...
* #author Anthony Gordon
*/
[Embed(source='../../../bin/Assets.swf', symbol='Hero')]
public class Hero extends GameObject
{
private var aKeyPress:Array;
private var jumpDisabled:Boolean = false;
//private var heroSprite:MovieClip;
public function Hero()
{
wY = 150;
wX = 90;
speed = .5;
aKeyPress = new Array();
TheGame.sr.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownListener);
TheGame.sr.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP,keyUpListener);
}
private function keyDownListener(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
//trace("down e.keyCode=" + e.keyCode);
aKeyPress[e.keyCode]=true;
}
private function keyUpListener(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
//trace("up e.keyCode=" + e.keyCode);
aKeyPress[e.keyCode]=false;
}
override public function UpdateObject():void
{
Controls();
updatePosition();
}
private function Controls():void
{
if (aKeyPress[38])//Key press up
;//dy -= speed;
else if (aKeyPress[40])//Key press down
dy += speed;
if (aKeyPress[37])//left
{
dx -= speed;
}
else if (aKeyPress[39])//Right
{
dx += speed;
}
if (aKeyPress[32]){//space
jump();
}
}//End Controls
private function jump():void
{
if (!jumpDisabled)
{
if (onGround)
{
dy = -15;
jumpDisabled = true;
}
}
else
{
jumpDisabled = false;
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

You need to make the hSprite clip a public variable in the class.
public var hSprite:MovieClip;