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Anonymous
August 19, 2010
Question

Error #1065 on Variables that Exist

  • August 19, 2010
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I was working on a project in CS3 and since i'm getting closer to completion i started porting it to CS4 flashplayer 10. (bug is also present in CS5 when exporting for flash player 10.) Whenever i run the project this line is displayed: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable $elementInstruction is not defined. along with the stack.

To start off with the Class "IS" defined "PUBLIC" (though not in capitals). The area i am getting the problem is in the below code snippet:

Origional Code:

protected function digestString($instructions:String):void
        {
            var $instanceNameCommands:Array = $instructions.split("$");//String("owner-player_modifier-armor_modifier-speed_units-78").split("_");
            for (var i:Number = $instanceNameCommands.length - 1; i >= 0; i-- )
            {
                var $elementInstruction:Array = $instanceNameCommands.split("_");
               
                switch($elementInstruction[0])
                {

The Above code is the one i started with. The first variable to get the "Error #1065" was the  $instructions variable, my fixes are in the below code, then the $instanceNameCommands var. the last var $elementInstruction was even a bigger problem b/c even after i made the modifications it still doesn't work???

Modified:

     public function digestString($instructions:String):void
     {
            var $instanceNameCommands:Array = ($instructions as String).split("$") as Array;//String("owner-player_modifier-armor_modifier-speed_units-78").split("_");
            trace(($instanceNameCommands as Array).length)
            for (var i:Number = ($instanceNameCommands as Array).length - 1; i >= 0; i-- )
            {
                var $elementInstruction:Array = (($instanceNameCommands as Array) as String).split("_") as Array;
               
                switch($elementInstruction[0] as String)
                {

I don't know if this is related but the $instructions var is coming from var this.name where the class extends movieclip.

Any assistance that you provide would be greatly appreciated,

bnns

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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
August 19, 2010

To start with, this code is more efficient:

public function digestString($instructions:String):void
{
     var $instanceNameCommands:Array = $instructions.split("$");
     trace($instanceNameCommands.length);
     var $elementInstruction:Array;
     for (var i:int = 0; i < $instanceNameCommands.length; i++) 
     {
          $elementInstruction = String($instanceNameCommands).split("_");
          switch($elementInstruction[0] as String)
          {
               
          }
     }
}
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Anonymous
August 19, 2010

That was how my code looked before i started tweaking it to fix the errors...casting seemed like the only thing that worked. heh

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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
August 19, 2010

Just noticed.

THe line:

  for (var i:Number = ($instanceNameCommands as Array).length - 1; i >= 0; i-- )

the last i will be -1 - it will cause problem for the lowest array index is 0.

Also, why bother with decrementing if you can do it a more conventional way:

for (var i:int = 0; i < $instanceNameCommands.length; i++ )

In addition, there is no need to cast  $instanceNameCommands to Array for it was declared as Array.

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Anonymous
August 19, 2010

3) I agree that i shouldn't have to cast the stupid var but i've been getting those errors and casting seemed like the only thing that was fixing them.

2) I don't increment out preference for this particular code snippet i don't remember it had to do with the order in which the information is read in by the code b/c it's based off the instance name of an mc it much easier to append information at the beginning than at the end.

1) From what i understand this line of code will run from designate # to as long as it is greater that or equal to 0 which means -1 should never go through, i could have rewrote it like this:   for (var i:Number = ($instanceNameCommands as Array).length - 1; i > -1; i-- ) and it would still have the same functionality.

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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
August 19, 2010

i could have rewrote it like this:   for (var i:Number = ($instanceNameCommands as Array).length - 1; i > -1; i-- ) and it would still have the same functionality.

I doubt it. With this loop when i == 0 - it will still decrement it and the last i will be -1. It is easy to test. Why don't you trace i?

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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
August 19, 2010

Your CS4 and CS5 compilers have a strict mode (which is a good thing) - this is why you started getting these errors while transitioning.

What are the line numbers for the errors? (enable/permit debugging in publish settings) And what is the code on the line that corresponds to the error?

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Anonymous
August 19, 2010

Strict Mode is Disabled currently and Debugging is permitted.

The error started off as this line: var $instanceNameCommands:Array = $instructions.split("$");

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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
August 19, 2010

Are you still getting 1065? If so, post entire stack.

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