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Flash Input Text Bug

Posted in Bugs, CS3 | Saturday, December 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The other day I was throwing an email form together really quickly, and decided to lay it out on the stage. So added 4 input fields, for name, email, subject, and message, and used those names as the instance names. then i put some labels in them, since i was planning on doing some nice ON_FOCUS text relacement. but before going much farther i needed to check to see if the alignment was right, and tested the movie.
At which point I quite unexpectedly got this error:

Error: Error #2078: The name property of a Timeline-placed object cannot be modified.
	at flash.display::DisplayObject/set name()
	at flash.display::Sprite/flash.display:Sprite::constructChildren()
	at flash.display::Sprite$iinit()
	at flash.display::MovieClip$iinit()


And I hadn’t even imported the form class I had used a dozen times before…

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E4X & XMLList fails when defined in a switch statement.

Posted in Bugs, Flash AS 3.0 | Saturday, November 17th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

This one had me REALLY confused, for a good bit of time, luckily a co-worker helped be go through a rather vigorous debugging session to pinpoint the problem. Apparently if you are attempting to access a piece of a larger XML object using the new E4X capabilities and you attempt to do it with a single line of code, it will return a null object instead of the expected XMLList object it should. After looking into it further, I discovered that if you define the variable, but don’t set it’s value on the same line, then it works fine… See wonky huh?

Example (Based on Adobes example documentation):

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package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
 
public class XMLListExample extends Sprite
{
	private var books:XML;
 
	public function XMLListExample()
	{
		books =		<books>
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Design Patterns" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="The Pragmatic Programmer" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Test Driven Development" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Refactoring to Patterns" />
			<book publisher="O'Reilly Media" name="The Cathedral & the Bazaar" />
			<book publisher="O'Reilly Media" name="Unit Test Frameworks" />
		</books>;
 
		showBooksByPublisher();
	}
 
	private function showBooksByPublisher():void
	{
		var ner = "ren";
		switch(ner){
			case "ren":
			// the working code
			var results:XMLList;// = new XMLList();
			results = books.book.(@publisher == "Addison-Wesley");
			trace("results:\n"+results); // returns a the first 4 items (which contain "Adison...")
 
			// now for the fun!!!
			var otherResults:XMLList = books.book.(@publisher == "O'Reilly Media");
			trace("other results:\n"+otherResults); // returns null? (actually a null object)
 
			// just to see if oneline variable definitions work
			var test:String = 'ner';
			trace("test string: "+test);
 
			// seeing what else is a problem to do this way
			var objTest:Object = {ner:"ren"};
			trace('test object: '+objTest.ner); // yup works fine.
			//
			var xmlTest:XML = <ners>
			<ner>ren</ner>
			</ners>;
			trace('test xml:\n'+xmlTest); // no problem here either.
			//
			var numTest:Number = 45;
			trace('test number: '+numTest); // this is fine too.
			break;
		}
		if(ner == "ren")
		{
			var otherOtherResults:XMLList = books.book.(@publisher == "O'Reilly Media");
			trace("other other results:\n"+otherOtherResults); // works fine as well.
		}
	}
}// end of class
}

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