Were you targeting Flash Player 6? I had a similar problem which kept me up last night, that was fixed when I targeted FP7+.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Kodicek Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:08 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Local variables and function arguments > That sounds totally counter to my experience, Danny. Mine too. Plus - a simple test showed I was wrong: function test(tVar:String) { if (tVar == undefined) { tVar = "hello" } } test() trace(tVar) we get an undefined in the output window as expected. I think it's another problem which was mentioned here before: the particular variable I was using was a movieClip, and I was setting it to _root: (the following is stripped down slightly, missing out the bit that actually does anything...) function findAllFields(tRoot:MovieClip) { if (tRoot == undefined) { var tRoot = _root; } for (var i in tRoot) { var tMc = tRoot[i]; if ((tMc instanceof MovieClip) && (tRoot != tMc)) { findAllFields(tMc); } } } The line which was causing the problem was 'var tRoot = _root', which was changed from 'tRoot = _root'. Of course, now I can't replicate the problem, so god knows what was happening... > Something else must be going on. What's the error you're > getting if you omit the 'var'? I was getting a '256 levels of recursion' error: tMc would be a particular clip, but by the time I got into the recursion, it had become _root again. My guess is it was related to the problem we saw before that _root seems to be an instance of some other object than MovieClip (something that extends MovieClip, presumably), so at some stage it was getting confused. Oh well, false alarm I guess. Which is good - the idea of unpicking years of code was a bit daunting... Danny _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
