I am having trouble getting the variables supplied by Visual Basic to display into a textField or added into an Array.

Currently I use AS2 for our company's existing software. It is a software which loads the SWF files and supplies all variables externally.

In AS2, VB would simply give me ;

var name:String = "JOHN";

var lastName:String = "DOE";

This I can access in every movieClips anytime by calling

myName.text = _root.name+" "+_root.lastName;

or in the case of adding the variables into an Array, I simply put the following;

var myArray:Array = new Array(_root.name, _root.lastName, _root.age, _root.sex);

I can't do this on AS3 and I do hope that anyone can help me with this problem.

Thanks in advance.