Package issue

[vossiewulf]

Really want to refactor and re-architect my project, it's become basically an 11k line monobloc that desperately needs to be split into multiple classes (and class files) inside a single package.

Yes I know I should have figured all this out when I started, but this is play not work and I was brand new to AS3 when I started. And I've kept building and building and it all works, it's just become very hard to manage.

My immediate goal is to define a package and then start breaking out function groups from the current main class into subclasses that extend the base. But I'm having a problem with the first step - defining the package.

I'm getting:

C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Fex Line of Battle Project\trunk\line_of_battle\LOB_Core.as, Line 1, Column 1 5001: The name of package 'line_of_battle' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Fex Line of Battle Project\trunk\line_of_battle\LOB_Core.as

So I've checked:

package line_of_battle {
public class LOB_Core extends flash.display.MovieClip {

Filename is LOB_Core.as.

Path:

Class path:

Such a simple thing but I must be missing something since I keep getting the same error. I even created a new folder in a new location and created new test package parent class and child class with all new names carefully checked, and I get the exact same error. It keeps insisting my package name doesn't agree with the folder name even though that is clearly not the case.

[kglad]

your main file needs to be in trunk.  at least, that's how it would work with flash/animate.

[vossiewulf]

Sorry for slow response, as noted above this isn't work and I got pulled away for a couple days.

This does not seem to work either. I just created a folder called Flash Test and made a testClass.as and testClass.fla files inside. I gave the testClass the package name of packageTest. Then I created a folder called packageTest inside

package	packageTest	{
	public class testClass {

C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Flash Test\testClass.as, Line 1, Column 1

5001: The name of package 'packageTest' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Flash Test\testClass.as

[kglad]

there's a testClass.as file that is not in the packageTest folder.  fix that by deleting the testClass.as shown in your screenshot.

save a testClass.as with package equal to packageTest in the packageTest folder if there's not one there already.  retest.

[vossiewulf]

Thanks for the continuing effort, just did that and... well...

C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Flash Test\packageTest\testClass.as, Line 1, Column 1

5001: The name of package 'packageTest' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Flash Test\packageTest\testClass.as

Path is correct for the new location. And just for reference:

package

packageTest

{

I apologize if I'm being obtuse. I'm getting pretty annoyed as I figure out 10 things a day that are seemingly considerably more complex problems than this is.

[kglad]

your screenshots look good if you were testing testClass.fla in ThisPC/Documents/Flash Test

but your error message shows you're testing something else.  fix that.

[vossiewulf]

First, again sorry for delay, work intruding on fun time.

Can you explain what you see in that error that says I'm testing something else? I don't see it.

But anyway, see below, I closed and reopened Animate, opened only one thing - testClass.fla from .../Documents/Flash Test/ and retested.

Clean, open one file, testClass.fla at the correct location.

Confirm that's only file present.

Ctrfl + Enter

I really got nothing here, and this makes no sense. Are there issues with win10? I upgraded recently, only major system change. I'm beginning to look for issues outside of standard "where is the file?" issues, it's almost like an encoding issue causing a mismatch. And it's frustrating as I have a relatively sophisticated application in need of refactoring before finalizing, and I can't even get my own packages to work.

[kglad]

there error message shows the testClass being used by your fla is in:

C:\Users\Vossie\Documents\Flash Test\packageTest

the testClass shown in your screenshot is in

<indeterminate>...\This PC\Documents\Flash Test\packageTest

you should create a new directory (or better yet, partition and directory) for your production files.

[vossiewulf]

Ah, ok. I'm still fairly new to Win10 but those are aliases to the same location, just depends on how you navigate there; in short there aren't two locations and two versions, but maybe that's confusing Flash? Will go check what happens when I navigate to the .fla so it should have the c:\users\vossie\... path. Thanks.

[vossiewulf]

That didn't work. According to what I'm seeing, Animate shouldn't care, they both point to the same resource. I just checked the publish settings and it's using This PC\Documents, but compiler errors seem to be thrown using the real path.

[kglad]

if you see that error message, flash cares.

again, you should create a new directory (or better yet, partition and directory) for your production files.

[vossiewulf]

That sounded reasonable, that Flash was getting confused by Win10's aliases.

So I moved the whole Flash Test folder to the F: drive, for which there are no OS aliases like there are with the library folders (Documents, etc.) Then I killed the old class search paths on the .fla and reset them to the F:\ versions.

F:\Flash Test\packageTest\testClass.as, Line 1, Column 1

5001: The name of package 'packageTest' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. F:\Flash Test\packageTest\testClass.as

Facepalm. I think the compiler simply has it in for me.

[kglad]

i don't know what you mean by "..the old class search paths...".

your source path should be the current directory indicated by a dot:

[vossiewulf]

This time I apologize but have gotten irritated with this issue and actually went and made progress in other areas before turning back to this.

I did as requested above, now the actionscript settings for this .fla are:

And we no longer get the package naming error. However, we also are no longer executing testClass as I'm seeing no output from my trace statements, I assume because the document class specified above thinks testClass should be in the same directory it is.

Reminder of how I have it organized (which is what you suggested):

Code of the two classes:

package	packageTest	{
	public class testClass {

		public function testClass() {
		// constructor code
			trace("BIG MONKEYS");
			var testInstance:testClass_Child = new testClass_Child();
		}

	}

}

Ok... just tried several times to figure out how to paste in reasonably-formatted code and gave up. The advanced editor has a code hinting thing but it doesn't include AS3 and the result is worse than the above if I use any of them. Pasting it in just like above somehow turns it into a table with a fabulously complex and opaque editing UI.

package packageTest {

  public class testClass_Child extends testClass {

  public function testClass_Child() {

  // constructor code

  trace("BIGGER MONKEYS");

  }

  }

}

javascript:;

So as noted, now no errors, but it's also clearly not executing the class file in the packageTest directory. And if I put in any search paths that allow it to find the testClass.as file, it throws the package path error.

[kglad]

click file>publish settings>swf and make sure 'omit trace settings' is not ticked and your output panel has 'show output' ticked:

you could also add something to the stage in testClass to confirm it's being used.