This Code
var within_rangex = is_within(x,o_player.x,PLAYER_REACH);
throwing the error
Got ';' (;) expected ','
I Have No Idea Why, when using magic numbers there is no error thrown.
EDIT:
The Script In Which PLAYER_REACH Is Defined.
// This Script Contains Code To Create enums And macros
function enums(){
enum states{
normal,
jumping
}
#macro TILE_REFRESH_RATE 10; // How Often Will A Tile Update Accure
#macro PLAYER_REACH 64; // How Far Can The Player Reach
}
I Found It. The Simi-colons Can't Be Used In MACROS. Always Forget This.
Here Is The Fixed Code.
// This Script Contains Code To Create enums And macros
function enums(){
enum states{
normal,
jumping
}
#macro TILE_REFRESH_RATE 10; // How Often Will A Tile Update Accure
#macro PLAYER_REACH 64; // How Far Can The Player Reach
}
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I had a strange bug in my program which I fortunately found quite quickly but am still puzzled why it was happening. Essentially it was to do with the order of commands in the source code and event listeners, here is the example:
function detectFaces(loader:ImageLoader)
{
var detector:FaceDetector=new FaceDetector();
detector.addEventListener(FaceDetectorEvent.FACE_CROPPED,facesDetected);
detector.loadFaceImageFromBitmap(loader.bitmap);
var something:Number = stage.width;
function facesDetected(e:FaceDetectorEvent):void{
trace(something);
}
}
Operation that raise the event here is not important, only thing to note about it would be it takes around 100ms. What I get as trace output is NaN and I don't know why that is since line declaring the variable something will definitely be called before callback of facesDetected and it is in scope of the handler function declared under it. This problem was easy to solve by just moving var something:Number = stage.width; before loadFaceImageFromBitmap(..) method, but I would really like to know why this is happening?
I am suspecting this is not due to order of execution but has something to do with passingByValue and passingByRefrence deferences but don't know how would these cause an error like this.
EDIT: Now I am even more puzzled... This code works in any order of declaration:
timers();
function timers()
{
var timerTest:Timer = new Timer(100,1);
timerTest.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,onTime);
//BEFORE DECLARATION
timerTest.start();
var something:Number = stage.width;
function onTime(e:Event)
{
trace("SOMETHING :"+something);
}
}
timers();
function timers()
{
var timerTest:Timer = new Timer(100,1);
timerTest.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,onTime);
var something:Number = stage.width;
//AFTER DECLARATION
timerTest.start();
function onTime(e:Event)
{
trace("SOMETHING :"+something);
}
}
With regard to your initial question, actionscript will complete the execution of a block of code before it continues to execute subsequent lines. If there was nothing asynchronous happening in your loadFaceImageFromBitmap method (ie, if your weren't using a Loader or some other object that had to wait for an event to fire) then, however long the code takes to execute, the FACE_CROPPED event will still fire before 'something' is set to a value.
As for the other problem, it looks to me like the answer is simply that you're using a TimerEvent - Actionscript will acknowledge that it shouldn't wait for the event to fire before continuing to execute code; It will, therefore, declare 'something' before the 100 miliseconds passes. So, in this case, because you're using an event, the code WILL continue 'reading' and executing the lines following the event listener.
The code of the function loadFaceImageFromBitmap run on a sync way. The FaceDetectorEvent.FACE_CROPPED event listener is invoked inside of that function, it is not a callback declared to run after some response is returned for ie(http request).
In the case of the Timer it works as expected, because event listener is not invoked right at the start moment, it waits for X time.
I am a Flash and ActionScript newbie. I am trying to follow a video tutorial to make a preloader and I'm having a problem that the video didn't seem to address. I believe I have entered in all of the code correctly from the video. This is it:
stop();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loaderF);
function loaderF(e:Event):void{
var toLoad:Number = loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
var loaded:Number = loaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
var total:Number = loaded/toLoad;
if( loaded == toLoad ){
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loaderF);
gotoAndStop(2);
} else {
preloader_mc.preloaderFill_mc.scaleX = total;
preloader_mc.percent_txt.text = Math.floor( total * 100 ) + "%";
preloader_mc.ofBytes_txt.text = loaded + "bytes";
preloader_mc.totalBytes_txt.text = toLoad + "bytes";
}
}
What I typed in doesn't generate a compiler error, but the output tells me:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at preloader_fla::MainTimeline/loaderF()
And since I really don't have any experience outside of what I'm learning from this tutorial series, I don't know what to do to fix this.
I don't use Flash CS5, but you should be able to get the line # for where the error is occurring, I believe, by executing the SWF by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
Once you get the line number, you should see that something on that line is null or not defined. The error says it occurs in the function loaderF(), and looking at that code the only place such an error could occur is in the else block:
} else {
preloader_mc.preloaderFill_mc.scaleX = total;
preloader_mc.percent_txt.text = Math.floor( total * 100 ) + "%";
preloader_mc.ofBytes_txt.text = loaded + "bytes";
preloader_mc.totalBytes_txt.text = toLoad + "bytes";
}
In the above code block, one of these things is not defined:
preloader_mc.preloaderFill_mc,
preloader_mc.percent_txt,
preloader_mc.ofBytes_txt,
preloader_mc.totalBytes_txt
Maybe your preloader movie clip is missing one of these objects...
First, you'll want to turn on debugging found under (File > Publish Settings > Flash (.swf) > Permit Debugging). This will provide line numbers and allow additional debugging to help track down errors.
Secondly, in the code sample you've provided, you haven't declared a loader, so when you call on loaderInfo, it makes sense that flash complains about "a term is undefined". Although, technically, the loaderInfo object is a child of the event object. Thus, loaderInfo.bytesTotal would become e.loaderInfo.bytesTotal, assuming you added the event listener to the loader object; currently yours is added to the timeline.
Bookmark Adobe's Actionscript 3.0 Reference. Use it. As you begin your journey in Flash, this will be your indispensable handbook to speaking AS3. Specifically, you'll want to refer to the Loader class.
Here's what you're likely missing in your code:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest("path/to/my/file"));
Your function loaderF is being called during every frame update to the screen (likely every .034 seconds). You'd probably be happier with ProgressEvent.PROGRESS instead of Event.ENTER_FRAME. If so, you'll also want to catch the complete event, and that'd look like this:
myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
myLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);
function loadComplete(e:Event):void {
// Stuff to do when the file finishes loading.
}
function loadProgress(e:Event):void {
var current:int = e.bytesLoaded;
var total:int = e.bytesTotal;
var percent:Number = current/total;
// Update the readout of your loading progress.
}
Hopefully that points you in the right direction. :)
I'm currently enrolled in an ActionScript course, and cannot seem to get my progress bar to work correctly. We were tasked with creating a simple image loader application, which would access externally hosted images (through use of a PHP proxy script), and then spit the image onto the user's screen (with a progress event and progress bar to track the image's download progress).
However, when I run it, I get these mysterious black graphical glitches everywhere, as well as a non-functioning progress bar. In some browsers I get the following error: "ArgumentError: Error #2109: Frame label NaN not found in scene NaN. at flash.display.MovieClip/gotoAndStop() at Document/imageLoadProgress().
Here is my code - I cant for the life of me figure out what is wrong. I figure it has something to do with the imageLoadProgress() function, or my progress bar (which is just a simple 100-frame movie clip with a motion tween and a "stop()" command at the beginning).
public function loadImage()
{
var imageURL:String = imageArray[currentImageIndex];
if(loaderInfo.url.substr(0,4) == "http")
{
trace("we're online");
//use the proxy script
//escape() will replace spaces in file names with %20
imageURL = "./image_proxy.php?filename=" + escape(imageArray[currentImageIndex]);
}
var imageRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(imageURL);
this.imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, this.imageIOError);
this.imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, this.imageLoadProgress);
this.imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, this.imageLoadComplete);
this.imageLoader.load(imageRequest);
//end loadImage
}
public function imageIOError(e:Event)
{
trace("ImageIOError called. Error=" + e);
//end imageIOError
}
public function imageLoadProgress(e:ProgressEvent)
{
var percentLoaded:Number = e.bytesLoaded/e.bytesTotal;
percentLoaded = Math.round(percentLoaded * 100);
//this.progress_mc.scaleY = percentLoaded;
if (percentLoaded < 1)
{
this.progressBar.gotoAndStop(1);
}
else
{
this.progressBar.gotoAndStop(percentLoaded);
}
//end imageLoadProgress
}
Your loader script seems absolutely fine to me, except for a tiny flaw:
The only way the NaN(== not a Number) in your error message makes sense to me is if your ProgressEvent's bytesTotal property equals 0 - because division by zero doesn't produce valid results, as we all know.
I can't say for sure why this happens, not knowing any of your server-side code, but I assume it would occur if your PHP proxy script does not set the Content-Length HTTP response header correctly. If you were loading an actual image file, the web server would automatically set the header for you - in the case of your proxy script, it seems you have to take care of it yourself.
Anyway, you can make your loader script more error-proof by testing for NaN, and making sure the frame you jump to is never greater than 100:
var frame:int = isNaN (percentLoaded) || percentLoaded < 1 ? 1 :
percentLoaded > 100 ? 100 : percentLoaded;
progressBar.gotoAndStop(frame);
(I chose shorthand notation, but this is essentially the same as writing two if statements and an else).
So i have this function
capture_mc.buttonMode = true;
capture_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,captureImage);
function captureImage(e:MouseEvent):void {
//lalalala
}
I want to call this function every 2 seconds (after mouse click event happens).
I tried using setInterval
setInterval(captureImage,2000,e:MouseEvent);
but it leads to following error
1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.
What's wrong ?
And ya, i am new to AS.
First, since this is AS3 you should be using Timer and TimerEvent. I'll show you how in the example.
Now you'll need to separate your functions:
edit: I've updated this to be safer based on #(Juan Pablo Califano) suggestions. I would keep the same timer for ever if the amount of time isn't going to change.
// first param is milliseconds, second is repeat count (with 0 for infinite)
private var captureTimer:Timer = new Timer(2000, 0);
captureTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, handleInterval);
function handleClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// call here if you want the first capture to happen immediately
captureImage();
// start it
captureTimer.start();
}
function handleInterval(event:TimerEvent):void
{
captureImage();
}
function captureImage():void
{
// lalalala
}
You can also stop the timer with captureTimer.stop() whenever you want.
The problem is that you should use the parameterName:ParameterType syntax only when declaring formal parameters (or when declaring vars and consts). Meaning, this is valid only when you are defining a function:
function func(paramName:Type){
}
When you call the function, you don't have to put the type of the arguments.
So, your function call should look like this:
setInterval(captureImage,2000,e);
I cobbled together some code from here and there for a trace I like... it generates an error to get a stack trace and picks out the traced routine name, I like that detail in the trace log.
Problem: it fails in an installed AIR file. I wonder why? I don't expect it to do anything as is... just, I'd prefer it not cause the program to fail!
tx
artie
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static public function XTRACE( ... traceArgs ):void {
try {
throw new Error(); // make a stack
} catch (e:Error) {
var stack:String = e.getStackTrace();
var frames:Array = stack.split("\n");
var myFrame:String = String(frames[2]);
myFrame = myFrame.replace("\t", "");
// "at " can be followed by some part of the package
// you don't want to see. E.g., if your code is all in
// com.foo.bar, you can put "at com.foo.bar." so as not
// to crowd the display
myFrame = myFrame.substr("at ".length);
myFrame = myFrame.substring(0, myFrame.indexOf("["));
var now:Date = new Date();
trace(new Date().toLocaleTimeString() + ":" + myFrame + ": " + traceArgs.join(" "));
}
}
In what way is your app failing?
1) Trace routines are for debugging, so your trace won't do anything in an installed app.
2) I'm not sure when you call this routine, but it seems weird that you have a routine that only throws an error. I think in this code the 'catch' is only going to get entered if there's an error throwing the error. Normally you would try to perform some useful action, and catch errors when something goes wrong.
Within the trace function your attempting to invoke the Date().toLocaleTimeString() statically before it becomes instantiated by the new keyword. Try the following instead:
trace((new Date()).toLocaleTimeString() + ":" + myFrame + ": " + traceArgs.join(" "));
thanks for your input Fergal. The XTRACE function works fine running with the debug player, and fails only when running with the release player. So I assume the code line I use must associate values in the right order... I settled on using a function I didn't know about before:
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static public function XTRACE( ... traceArgs ):void {
if ( Capabilities.isDebugger ) {
With that, XTRACE does nothing unless it is executing in a debug environment. So it works around the issue. I'll still use your brackets though, I like to make order of association obvious too ;-)
I realize you've probably grown old and forgot what flash is since you asked this question. But, you're getting an NPE because e.getStackTrace() returns null in the release player.
A couple other things:
You don't need to throw the error to get a stack trace; new Error().getStackTrace() works fine.
Since this is debug code, and the calling code probably isn't expecting errors, you should wrap the whole thing in a try catch.
The compiler won't resolve 'at '.length, so it will be called every time at runtime. Unless you're really paranoid, you can just hard code it to 3.
Both the substrs can be combined into 1
The now variable isn't used.