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It is a little confusing trying to follow your data storage scheme, and that might be a big part of the problem, but for the two lines you show...
InfoArray = "Video: ";
InfoArray
If the first is a string, the second cannot be an element of an array if that is the intent. It appears the compiler sees it as if to be trying to target a property of a string using the bracket notation where the
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sorry for the late response and the large post, i hope it isnt too much for these forums. I wanted to be detailed since you mentioned that if i explain my intentions better it would be easier to help.
I will do my best to explain what i am doing and trying to do, i know its hard to understand without knowing everything and without being in my head and seeing the whole picture, and i appreciate the help.
This all centers around some online training i am creating. The training is a series of videos followed by a quiz. The training module is hosted on my company's sharepoint site and through SCORM records all the data.
I made a training module template in flash and all the other people i work with have to do is go into the Module.FLA and adjust the variables:
Module Name
How many videos
Video 1 name.FLV
Video 1 caption text
video 2 name.FLV
Video 2 caption text
etc
how many questions
how many of those questions will be pulled from the pool (randomly pull 20 of the 30 total questions)
question 1
answer 1
answer 2
etc
correct answer
company SOP that verifies the correct answer
type of question (multiple choice, T/F, Fill in blank, Order the steps, etc)
This isnt difficult, however, the other people i work with have 0 coding experience, let alone AS3. And they constantly mess up my code by deleting random syntax items. (" marks, // marks, and other small things). So i am making a Module generator.
This generator gives them an interface where they can enter all the variable information. They will then hit a button "Publish" this button will consolidate all the information they entered and place it into a file that my original module program will read, thus, they no longer have to go into the module.fla and manually change variables.
the feature i am working on now, is a save and load system. So if they are in the middle of creating a module and they need to quit and come back later, they can save the information they have entered, then later load it.
I have been storing all the information they enter into an array, then saving it using a bytearray: (I am saving all the information into one byte array because it is the only method i know)
for(var i:int = 0; i<InfoArray.length; i++)
{
SaveBA.writeUTF(InfoArray);
}
InfoArray gets its information from two other arrays:
VideoArray
and
QuestionArray
When using the program, they enter the video information:
Video Name (the FLV file name)
and Video Caption (the closed caption script)
i use the following to create the visual representation and to store the data:
Number_Of_Videos ++;
VideoArray[Number_Of_Videos] = new MC_Video_Box;
VideoArray[Number_Of_Videos].name = "Video"+Number_Of_Videos;
...
Video_Info();
The Video_info function brings up a window with text fields for them to input the information.
when they click ok on that window it runs Video_Bar (e:MouseEvent), wich will store the data they entered
function Video_Bar (e:MouseEvent)
{
...
VideoArray[Number_Of_Videos][0]=VideoInfoBox.TXTVideoName.text;
VideoArray[Number_Of_Videos][1]=VideoInfoBox.TXTVideoCaption.text;
...
}
this process is repeated as many times as needed.
VideoArray ends up structed like so:
Video[1] = [Object MC]
Video[1][0] = "Video Name"
Video[1][1] = "Video Caption"
then the questions are entered. I use a similar method of presenting a window where they enter the data and then create a visual reference, and store the data. the QuestionsArray is structed like so:
QuestionArray[1] = [Object MC]
QuestionArray[1][0]: Question
QuestionArray[1][1]: A1
QuestionArray[1][2]: A2
QuestionArray[1][3]: A3
QuestionArray[1][4]: A4
QuestionArray[1][5]: Shuffle Status
QuestionArray[1][6]: Type
QuestionArray[1][7]: Correct Answer
QuestionArray[1][8]: SOP
And this process is repeated as needed, usually about 30-50 questions total.
Now, if the user decides to save and quit so they can return later, I run a series of loops to consolidate the two arrays into 1. The code i presented earlier is the 1st half of that. Im worried about the code being too much to show, show i tried a picture of it. I can write it out if desired. It runs its loops based on how many videos there are, and how many questions there are and ends up with a structure like so:
InfoArray:
[0]: Module Name
[1]: Number of Videos
[2+]: videos //It continues to create the video information for how ever many videos there are. if there are 3 videos then in will create the videos in slots [2]. [3], and [4].
[2+][0]: Video Name
[2+][1]: Video Caption
[[1]+1]: Number of questions //This information must be stored in the slot after the last video, so using the the information stored in InfoArray[1] i add to it to find where the next empty slot is.
[[1]+2]: Number of questions selected
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][0]: Question //during the loop it makes sure that i is greater than or equal to the number of videos +3 s othat the question info is placed after the video info.
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][1]: Answer 1
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][2]: Answer 2 //I use the number of videos to find the next slot, in hindsight i could probably come up with a simpler method using .push()
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][3]: Answer 3
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][4]: Answer 4
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][5]: Shuffle Status
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][6]: Question Type
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][7]: SOP
[=>[1]+3,=<[1+1]][8]: Correct Answer
InfoArray is then saved using the ByteArray method i mentioned earlier in this post.
When i load, i have InfoArray = BA.readUTF(); in the proper sequence to get all the data into the correct slots of InfoArray.
I am actually having another issue similar to my original now,
When i am moving my data from InfoArray into my VideoArray i am using a loop to set VideoArray[1][0] and VideoArray[1][1] to equal InfoArray[2][0] and InfoArray[2][1]
I get the same error as before in this scenario:
i=1
k=i+1
trace(InfoArray[2]); // output: V1,V1C1
trace(InfoArray[2][0]); <<It errors here
trace(infoArray[2][1]);
VideoArray[0] = InfoArray
VideoArray[1] = InfoArray
Im not sure why it errors with "Error #1069: Property 0 not found on String and there is no default value." i ran a test:
myArray[1] = [];
myArray[1][0] = "spot 1, 0";
myArray[1][1] = "spot 1, 1";
myArray2[1] = myArray[1];
trace("myArray2 = "+myArray2);
trace("myArray2[1][0] = "+myArray2[1][0]);
trace("myArray2[1][1] = "+myArray2[1][1]);
this test seems the same as my scenario to me, yet it doesnt error out.
Again my apologies for this being so large, i wanted to try and explain as well as possible.
thanks for the help 
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