The Solution: Scan your script to make sure that all standard handlers are in bright blue, not dark blue. Dark blue is usually user-defined data; if you look at the image above, my play() ; function is entered correctly, so it’s bright blue. My onClipEvent (enterFrame), however, is incorrectly capitalized, so Flash doesn’t recognize it a handler and thus displays the text in dark blue. Watching for things like that can help you figure out what you’ve capitalized incorrectly, or even misspelled.
Five Basic ActionScripting Mistakes and How to Fix Them
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide
The Problem: You’ve entered all of your ActionScripts correctly (usually typing manually in expert mode), but you’re still getting errors. Most notably, Flash is telling you that you need semicolons on a line that doesn’t normally require them, because it’s opening or closing a function. Most likely you’ve forgotten that Flash is awfully case-sensitive, and handlers have to be typed with the proper combination of upper and lower case.
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- Confusing = With ==
- Misspelling Variable and Symbol Names
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