I managed to isolate a small part of the project and copied it to a new
project - just to experiment.
Running as AS2 lost the problematic error completely.
Running again as AS3 saw it restored. Despite the compiler saying that
it ignores actionscript attached to symbols, that seems to be the
problem. Removing an on (release) handler in the AS2 code sees the error
go away when building as an AS3 project.
Paul
On 12/09/2014 15:00, Paul A. wrote:
On 12/09/2014 14:30, Mike Duguid wrote:
Saving as .xfl might allow you to search (and possibly replace)
through the
associated xml files more efficiently than working through a complex
.fla
Good suggestion.
I've currently managed to extract all of the actionscript using the
MovieExplorer, but gosh it's a needle in a haystack!
Thanks,
Paul
On 12 September 2014 12:10, Paul A. <p...@ipauland.com> wrote:
On the face of it this is a simple thing to solve, but it's driving me
nuts.
I am trying to update an AS2 project for a client to AS3. The code
naturally contains code all over the place, attached to buttons and
on the
timeline.
The problem for me is that there is a LOT of code disributed over
loads of
frames, inside movieclips and on the timeline.
I'm using Flash CS6. For the most part the compiler is helpful, but on
this occasion finding the source of the problem is very hard, and by
source
I mean the actual source code where the error is, not just a solution.
Generally the error is along the lines of
*frame 1, line 1 **1086 syntax error expecting semicolon before
leftbrace*
..repeated LOADS of times.
If the problem really was on frame 1, line 1 of the main timeline, it
would be great, but it's not. SOmetimes as I experiment with removing
frames, etc, the frame number changes.
By temporarily removing frames from the main timeline, and making
layers
into guides, I can narrow the generation of the errors to specific
symbols.
Unfortunately it's slow to do this and there's loads of nested
sympols and
a lot of animation frames.
It's a nightmare.
Any ideas for finding where these are originating from without
searching
painfully through the source?
I should say that other errors are correctly identified and their
location
shown. No issues with those and now I only have these 1086 errors left.
I have taken the AS2 fla, copied all of the frames and layers into
an AS3
project and the errors are there.
Paul
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