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Error #1065 Every Time Event Listener Is Added

Dec 27, 2011 2:50 PM

Tags: #error #as3 #actionscript #as3.0

Hi,

 

I am new to flash and having playing around to figure out what I can on my own, but this problem is really bugging me and I can't seem to solve it. I am trying to make an animation with three seperate buttons that when clicked on make one set of text disappear and new text appear in its place. My code so far looks like this:

 

stop();

 

 

//---Bio Button Text---\\

 

 

go.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLCIK, bioplay);

function bioplay event:MouseEvent) :void {

 

}

 

Everything plays fine until I add the "go.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLCIK, bioplay);     function bioplay event:MouseEvent) :void {          }." When this bit of code is added I get the error message:

 

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable TCMText is not defined.

 

I don't know what this means and I can"t seem to figure it out on my own so any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Nick

3190 Views   26 Replies   Latest reply: A.Liebscher, Jan 8, 2012 4:26 PM
 
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  • Rob Dillon
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    1. Rob Dillon,
    Dec 27, 2011 3:25 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    You have a couple of typos. The event CLICK is misspelled and you are missing an opening paren before event:

     

    Your code might work if it looks like this:

     

    go.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, bioplay);

    function bioplay (event:MouseEvent) :void {

     

    }

     
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  • NichB4411
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    2. NichB4411,
    Dec 27, 2011 7:43 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    I'm sure that will help later on, but I'm still getting the same exact error message.

     
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  • kennethkawamoto2
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    3. kennethkawamoto2,
    Dec 28, 2011 6:12 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Change TLFTextFields to normal TextFields

     

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    Kenneth Kawamoto

    http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

     
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  • NichB4411
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    4. NichB4411,
    Dec 28, 2011 7:08 AM   in reply to kennethkawamoto2
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    I just tried that, and the change is making some of my text invisible and other text change sizes and move. Is there any way to stop that from happening so I can try to preview the animation?

     
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  • kennethkawamoto2
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    5. kennethkawamoto2,
    Dec 28, 2011 7:30 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    It depends on what you're doing with your text fields... anyway the error you're getting is TLFTextField related, hence my post.

     

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    http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

     
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  • Rob Dillon
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    6. Rob Dillon,
    Dec 28, 2011 1:05 PM   in reply to kennethkawamoto2
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    Those two typos that I showed to you are critical to your code working. You've specified a mouse event in your listener, there is no CLCIK event, so Flash will throw an error. Additionally, that missing opening parenthesis will cause Flash to throw an error. The Error #1065 may be erroneous and may be the best that Flash can give you based on the two typos that I listed.

     

    There may indeed be a problem with a TLFText field in your movie, but if you don't fix everything, including the Actionscript, you'll never know. A simple solution is to comment out the code and see if you still get an error.

     
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  • NichB4411
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    7. NichB4411,
    Dec 28, 2011 2:50 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    I fixed those typos earlier today and was still ggetting the same error so those did not fix everything. I'm going to change all of the TLFText. To see If that fixes it, but seeing as most of the animation is text it is going to take some time. What do you mean by comment out the code?

     
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    Dec 28, 2011 3:14 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Commenting code:  http://www.how-to-code.com/as3-actionscript3/as3-comments/as3-comments .html

     
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    9. NichB4411,
    Dec 28, 2011 9:14 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Ok I went back through and changed al of my text fields to classic text and I am still recieving the error. I also tried commenting all of the code like you suggested and the error went away.

     
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  • Rob Dillon
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    Dec 29, 2011 4:41 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    I don't know how much code you have. The best next step is to uncomment the code one section at a time until you find the part that is throwing the error. Then you can dig into that chunk of code to find the problem.

     
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  • NichB4411
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    11. NichB4411,
    Dec 29, 2011 6:48 AM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    I posted all of my code in the original question. The stop(); has not errors in it. I went through and split the rest of the code into commented sections by lines and all three sections, including the }, gave me the same error.

     
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    Dec 29, 2011 7:22 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    If you fixed those two typos and you are still getting an error, then the only thing left is to find out if the object "go" in available in the same frame as the code. Your function has nothing in it so there's nothing there to cause an error.

     

    If your code is in frame 1, then you need to have the object with the instance name of "go" also in frame 1, for instance.

     
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  • NichB4411
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    Dec 30, 2011 9:18 AM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    I moved the actionscript to the same layer as the button which I want to cause the animation to go to the specified frame and play, and I am still getting the same error message. My text is all still set to classic and those two typos are fixed. I am wondering no if I am realy using the right code for what I want to do. I want this button to cause the animation to go to a specified frame, then play a few frames, and stop on a specified frame. Is this the right code to do this?

     
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    Dec 30, 2011 11:24 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    The code that you show in the first message doesn't really do anything. The body of the function is empty. I have seen this error message about TLFText fields many times. If you place a TLFTextField on the stage and don't set it up correctly, in this case by not giving the object an instance name, you will get this error. Even if you change the existing text field to a classic text field, the error can persist.

     

    You may need to either start over with a fresh new movie, or, delete all of the existing text fields in the movie and place new text fields.

     
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    Dec 30, 2011 2:02 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Do you know what my code would have to be to do this? All of my text objects have instance names.

     
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    Dec 30, 2011 4:42 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Can you put your movie .fla file up on a server so that I can take a look at it?

     
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    Dec 30, 2011 6:30 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Try embedding your font, this seems like a problem I once had.

     
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    Jan 1, 2012 2:59 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Rob, I would be glad to if I knew how. I can post the .swf on a website if that is any help. A.Liebscher, I don't know how to do that either, but if you can tell me how I will definitely try.

     
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    Jan 2, 2012 7:22 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Take your original .fla file and zip it. Then upload it to your server and post the link. If your textfields are input or dynamic then there is an option to embed the font that you select for your text. Just click on the embed button next to the font selection in the Properties window.

     
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    Jan 2, 2012 10:15 AM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Ok I tried embedding my text and that did not solve the error so I have linked the .zip file to www.nichbdesigns.com. The .fla file that is in the .zip is the original file with embedded TLF text and the lines of code that are being problematic commented out so you can see what I want the animation to do in the beginning. The bad code is on the layer with the biography button.

     
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  • Rob Dillon
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    Jan 2, 2012 11:35 AM   in reply to NichB4411
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    The title NICK BREITWIESER, BIOGRAPHY, CONTACT, GOAL are all TLFTextFields. All of the characters in  NICH B DESIGNS are all still TLFTextFields.

     

    One of the problems is that you made all of the animations out of many, many, keyframes. Since you didn't use movieClips in a lot of those animations, each of the objects in each of those keyframes is unique. This means that you have to go into each keyframe and change the textField from TLF to classic.

     

    You will be far ahead if you just throw this movie away and start over with a fresh new movie using Classic text.

     
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    Jan 2, 2012 11:49 AM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Alright, I will restart and use only classic text, and let you know how that works.

     
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    Jan 2, 2012 5:53 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    When I re-create the animation is it ok if I copy some of the lines from the old .fla file to the new one? I will still start fresh on all of the text fields, but it will save me a bunch of time if I can just copy the rest over from the original animation.

     
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    Jan 2, 2012 6:38 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Yes, you should be able to copy the line animation over to the new movie.

     
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    Jan 6, 2012 2:10 PM   in reply to Rob Dillon
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    Ok, I finally had time to finish re-making the animation. The scene is complete and redesigned a little, but it still has the same basic concept. Now I just need to write the actionscript to make a white screen fade in and then text to fade in on top of that when each of the buttons is clicked. Can somebody help me with this?

     
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  • A.Liebscher
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    Jan 8, 2012 4:26 PM   in reply to NichB4411
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    Sounds like you got it fixed, but for future reference, to embed a font: Open up the properties panel for your text box. Under the "Character" tab, there is a button next to "Style". If you click on that button, Flash pops up a window, there you can select the font you want. The font that was previously selected is default. There are several checkboxes, check only the ones you will be using in your application. It then shows up in your library, done!

     
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