On Oct 28, 8:37 pm, jack7890 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to use a for loop to initialize a large number of
> script.aculo.us sliders. I'm finding that, for some reason, I'm
> unable to store control.slider objects in an array. For example,
> consider this code:
>
> [code]
> var contextRaters_primary = new Array();
>
> for(var i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
>
> var contextRaters_primary[i] = new Control.Slider($
> ('contextRaterHandle_primary1'),$('contextRaterTrack_primary1'),
> {
> axis:'vertical'
> });}
>
> [/code]
>
> I know that this for loop will only iterate once, but I'm using it to
> show my point. If I delete the "[i]" from the end of
> "contextRaters_primary[i]" then it runs fine. But when I try to run
> it as I've written it, I get a "missing ; before statement" error. So
> for some reason it doesn't work when I try to store the slider as a
> variable in an array.
>
> Could someone PLEASE tell me why this might be? I feel like the
> answer is relatively obvious, but I'm relatively new to this and can't
> figure it out.
`[` and `]` can not be part of Identifier. In other words, by
prepending `var` you try to declare a variable and that variable's
name is syntactically wrong : )
Just omit `var`:
...
contextRaters_primary[i] = ...
...
>
> Thanks.
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kangax
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