Common flash errors

NintendoFlash · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:14 pm

Lets talk about some common errors. By the way, feel free to add any other errors that you know of and can explain, or you can ask questions of some errors.
One of the most common errors are these:

Code:

Unexpected '}' encountered

This simply means that somewhere in your code, you put an extra '}'

Code:

Statement block must be terminated by '}'

This means that you forgot to close a code with '}'

If anyone has a better explanation then this, then be guess to criticize and correct.

RyanKajito · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:43 pm

Well yeah, I kinda figured that they were obvious.

x2i · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:09 am

Code:

Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (press) {

This occurs when you try to add an button event to a frame

Code:

Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
onClipEvent (load) {

This error occurs when trying to add an 'onClipEvent' function to any other element than a Movie Clip

Code:

Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.
5+=5

This is because flash can do the sum however it has nowhere to store the answer - so a variable will need to be given on the left like so: var num += 5

Code:

Expected a field name after '.' operator.
_root..lol

This is because two dots have been used, flash expects another entry after the first dot if there is to be a second dot, for instance: _root.player.lol

Code:

Wrong number of parameters; duplicateMovieClip requires exactly 3.
duplicateMovieClip();

This error is because the wrong number of parameters have been given - flash will usually tell you how many are needed, this would be correct: duplicateMovieClip(_root.lol, _root.lol2, 1);