RE: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
Hi Joe, In my case I was generating a swc too (using it from AIR) and deleting the swc file manually fixed this issue (however anytime the swc file is there flash comes up again with this error message) Zoli www.fluorinefx.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cutting Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:12 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript I've suddenly started having a very serious problem with a large project I'm working on in Flash CS3 (Flash 9- AS3) When I go to test movie the project compiles ok but ignores all the Actionscript in the file When I try debug it comes up with You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain Actionscript I've tried: - saving and compacting - Deleting the ASO files - Copying everything to a new fla - Unchecking the Reduce file size and increase performance box The only thing I've found is that if I copy only a few library items to a new file that file doesn't have the problem - but it doesn't seem particularly consistent. If I add items until the problem occurs it doesn't always go away when I remove them. I'm also getting occasional 5003: Unknown error generating byte code cropping up I've noticed that several other people have been having this problem: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=161118 As I said the project is large, but not enormous - the fla is about 3.5MB and the swf ends up around 270k. Are there any known limits to Actionscript code, classes or packages that I should be aware off. Any suggestions would be great because I'm tearing my hair out. The only thing I've seen that I haven't tried is switching to Flex which really isn't ideal at this stage in the project. Cheers Joe Joe Cutting Computer exhibits and installations www.joecutting.com 35 Hospital Fields Road, York, YO10 4DZ 01904 624681 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.4/1566 - Release Date: 7/22/2008 6:00 AM ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
if you put any code on the timeline and then make that layer a guide, it can also happen not that it's ever happened to me erm... was a mate of mine, yeh that's it On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helmut Granda wrote: The question now is, how do files in the library can become so corrupted? This would help to avoid it I hope. Because Flash, like a lot of software, ain't perfect. There's no reliable way to make an image get corrupted. Sometimes, the corruption is simple, like it says Image Cannot Be Displayed in the library preview, and it won't show up on stage. Sometimes, it gets much worse. The solution is (often) fairly simple. You have to save the image out again with a different name, because if you try to copy the same image and rename it, Flash will still get corrupted. Sometimes, it won't like it right away. Sometimes, it won't like it until you Save and Compact. Sometimes, it will work fine until you do a random amount of work in the file at which point it will stop working. Sometimes, it will still show up in the library preview and the stage but it will cause the Flash file to have problems when compiling or opening on other computers. In other words, Flash ain't perfect (CS3 is the best example of that, while Flash 8 is the closest it's ever been - in one version they went from best to worst). There's no solution and don't expect a fix because this issue has been around since at least Flash 5 and they've never fixed it. I don't even think they know what it is or why it happens, and it happens so infrequently, they simply don't talk about it. The effort to figure it out might not make sense economically. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
What you've got here is the case of a corrupted library item. It happens sometimes and there's only one thing you can do about it. What we had to (and you have to) do is go through your library symbols one by one, deleting each one until you find the sucker, and then replacing it if need be. Thank you for this. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who's had this. I also gives me some way of looking for the problem. Currently my library has 297 items and removing them isn't straightforward because they're referenced in the code so it creates knock on errors. So it may all take some time. Presumably this type of thing will get better with flash CS4 as .fla files will become an open XML based format and we'll be able to write out our own validators/checkers. Cheers Joe Joe Cutting Computer exhibits and installations www.joecutting.com 35 Hospital Fields Road, York, YO10 4DZ 01904 624681 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
If I was in your case (and as you commented the debugger is the one that prompts you for the error) I would delete the library items in chucks of say 50 or even 100, then debug, if he debugger doesn't say that it cant compile the movie because you dont have AS in it, then you move to the next set. and so forth. That will allow you to find your asset quite faster rather than going one by one and finding out that your problem is in asset #294.. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Joe Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you've got here is the case of a corrupted library item. It happens sometimes and there's only one thing you can do about it. What we had to (and you have to) do is go through your library symbols one by one, deleting each one until you find the sucker, and then replacing it if need be. Thank you for this. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who's had this. I also gives me some way of looking for the problem. Currently my library has 297 items and removing them isn't straightforward because they're referenced in the code so it creates knock on errors. So it may all take some time. Presumably this type of thing will get better with flash CS4 as .fla files will become an open XML based format and we'll be able to write out our own validators/checkers. Cheers Joe Joe Cutting Computer exhibits and installations www.joecutting.com 35 Hospital Fields Road, York, YO10 4DZ 01904 624681 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- ...helmut ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
Yeah, what you should do is the 50 percent recursive deletion. Delete half the items and test. Then delete half of the half that has the bad library item in it and test. Repeat until you hone in on it. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
I've suddenly started having a very serious problem with a large project I'm working on in Flash CS3 (Flash 9- AS3) When I go to test movie the project compiles ok but ignores all the Actionscript in the file When I try debug it comes up with You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain Actionscript I've tried: - saving and compacting - Deleting the ASO files - Copying everything to a new fla - Unchecking the Reduce file size and increase performance box The only thing I've found is that if I copy only a few library items to a new file that file doesn't have the problem - but it doesn't seem particularly consistent. If I add items until the problem occurs it doesn't always go away when I remove them. I'm also getting occasional 5003: Unknown error generating byte code cropping up I've noticed that several other people have been having this problem: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=161118 As I said the project is large, but not enormous - the fla is about 3.5MB and the swf ends up around 270k. Are there any known limits to Actionscript code, classes or packages that I should be aware off. Any suggestions would be great because I'm tearing my hair out. The only thing I've seen that I haven't tried is switching to Flex which really isn't ideal at this stage in the project. Cheers Joe Joe Cutting Computer exhibits and installations www.joecutting.com 35 Hospital Fields Road, York, YO10 4DZ 01904 624681 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
Welcome to the seedy underbelly of Flash development. What you've got here is the case of a corrupted library item. It happens sometimes and there's only one thing you can do about it. Not too long ago, my team inherited a Flash 8 file with a corrupted library item that was so terribly corrupted, the Flash 8 file would only open in Flash CS3 on an old G4 Mac running OSX Jaguar. Yes, it was that specific (We assumed that the original file was probably built on that system spec). It would not open in Windows Flash 8 or CS3, it would not open on any Mac Flash 8 or CS3 running a version of OSX higher than Jaguar. What we had to (and you have to) do is go through your library symbols one by one, deleting each one until you find the sucker, and then replacing it if need be. Thankfully, you can open your file directly. We had to open the file in Flash CS3 (which is bloated and slow) on that slow old Mac with 256MB RAM, delete a symbol, save as a new Flash file, copy said file to the network drive, and try to open it from another computer, rinse repeat, until we found the graphic that was causing it. It took us a few hours. Good luck! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
I've had that problem also when one item was missing from the library. This can happen when you use a class from an fla into another fla and that class is referencing a library item in the other fla but you forgot to copy that item in your new fla's library. BLITZ | Patrick Matte - 310-551-0200 x214 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:32 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript Welcome to the seedy underbelly of Flash development. What you've got here is the case of a corrupted library item. It happens sometimes and there's only one thing you can do about it. Not too long ago, my team inherited a Flash 8 file with a corrupted library item that was so terribly corrupted, the Flash 8 file would only open in Flash CS3 on an old G4 Mac running OSX Jaguar. Yes, it was that specific (We assumed that the original file was probably built on that system spec). It would not open in Windows Flash 8 or CS3, it would not open on any Mac Flash 8 or CS3 running a version of OSX higher than Jaguar. What we had to (and you have to) do is go through your library symbols one by one, deleting each one until you find the sucker, and then replacing it if need be. Thankfully, you can open your file directly. We had to open the file in Flash CS3 (which is bloated and slow) on that slow old Mac with 256MB RAM, delete a symbol, save as a new Flash file, copy said file to the network drive, and try to open it from another computer, rinse repeat, until we found the graphic that was causing it. It took us a few hours. Good luck! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
The question now is, how do files in the library can become so corrupted? This would help to avoid it I hope. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the seedy underbelly of Flash development. What you've got here is the case of a corrupted library item. It happens sometimes and there's only one thing you can do about it. Not too long ago, my team inherited a Flash 8 file with a corrupted library item that was so terribly corrupted, the Flash 8 file would only open in Flash CS3 on an old G4 Mac running OSX Jaguar. Yes, it was that specific (We assumed that the original file was probably built on that system spec). It would not open in Windows Flash 8 or CS3, it would not open on any Mac Flash 8 or CS3 running a version of OSX higher than Jaguar. What we had to (and you have to) do is go through your library symbols one by one, deleting each one until you find the sucker, and then replacing it if need be. Thankfully, you can open your file directly. We had to open the file in Flash CS3 (which is bloated and slow) on that slow old Mac with 256MB RAM, delete a symbol, save as a new Flash file, copy said file to the network drive, and try to open it from another computer, rinse repeat, until we found the graphic that was causing it. It took us a few hours. Good luck! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- ...helmut ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] You cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain any Actionscript
Helmut Granda wrote: The question now is, how do files in the library can become so corrupted? This would help to avoid it I hope. Because Flash, like a lot of software, ain't perfect. There's no reliable way to make an image get corrupted. Sometimes, the corruption is simple, like it says Image Cannot Be Displayed in the library preview, and it won't show up on stage. Sometimes, it gets much worse. The solution is (often) fairly simple. You have to save the image out again with a different name, because if you try to copy the same image and rename it, Flash will still get corrupted. Sometimes, it won't like it right away. Sometimes, it won't like it until you Save and Compact. Sometimes, it will work fine until you do a random amount of work in the file at which point it will stop working. Sometimes, it will still show up in the library preview and the stage but it will cause the Flash file to have problems when compiling or opening on other computers. In other words, Flash ain't perfect (CS3 is the best example of that, while Flash 8 is the closest it's ever been - in one version they went from best to worst). There's no solution and don't expect a fix because this issue has been around since at least Flash 5 and they've never fixed it. I don't even think they know what it is or why it happens, and it happens so infrequently, they simply don't talk about it. The effort to figure it out might not make sense economically. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
