1071: Syntax error: expected a definition keyword (such as function) after attribute _, not root.

[HOT Technologies]

I've been following a tutorial on YouTube on how to create a leader board for a game.

After putting in:

stop();

_ root.pos = SharedObject.getLocal("scoresTut");

_ root.pos.data.player1=_ root.player1.text;

_ root.pos.data.player2=_ root.player2.text;

_ root.pos.data.player3=_ root.player3.text;

_ root.pos.data.player4=_ root.player4.text;

_ root.pos.data.player5=_ root.player5.text;

_ root.pos.data.player6=_ root.player6.text;

_ root.pos.data.player1Score=_ root.player1.Score;

_ root.pos.data.player2Score=_ root.player2.Score;

_ root.pos.data.player3Score=_ root.player3.Score;

_ root.pos.data.player4Score=_ root.player4.Score;

_ root.pos.data.player5Score=_ root.player5.Score;

_ root.pos.data.player6Score=_ root.player6.Score;

It came up with the Syntaxt error above.

Can anyone help please?

[lalitha subramanian · Accepted solution]

When you are writing this program in AS3 you shoud not use _root. Instead of _root you can use MovieClip(root).

[Ned Murphy]

As lalitha says, in AS3 you do not use _root.  But in your case, you are using _ root which is one step worse.  The error is objecting to the space between the underscore and whatever follows.

It sounds as if you might be trying to follow an AS1/2 tutorial, which is not going to work if you set the file to publish for AS3.

[Amy Blankenship]

Also, this is not a good way to work in ActionScript 3. Part of the point of Actionscript 3 is to encourage good programming practices, and reaching up from child objects to parent objects is decidedly not good practice.