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POImporting a Package in Adobe Flash CS3 - Pointless Messages from "Access of Undefined Property" to none at all
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copied!<p>I inherited a Flash CS3 legacy app and I am trying to refactor it a little. Eventually everything is supposed to be moved over to JS, but for now I would like to start working with what I have rather than attempting a complete rewrite. First I would like to install a little regression test. </p> <p>I am trying to setup the test in it's own package in order to reducing the seams it has with the original app. The app uses a lot of global variables and I wish not to interfere with those.</p> <p><strong>I can't get my regression test to work, since I can't figure out how to import the package properly.</strong> I am pretty certain that I am overseeing something obvious.</p> <p>My folderstructure looks as follows:</p> <pre><code>+- ascripts | +-- dependencies.as | +- root.fla +- initialize.as +- regressiontest.as </code></pre> <p><strong>root.fla</strong> is my one and only fla file. It just contains:</p> <pre><code>stop(); include "initialize.as" // Let's go outside! </code></pre> <p><strong>initialize.as</strong> contains all the magic. I am using this external file so I don't have to use the Flash IDE (since it is the worst IDE for coding). In there I have this:</p> <pre><code>// ... import fl.controls.ComboBox; include "ascripts/dependencies.as" var t = new regressiontest.TestRunner(); // 1. // ... </code></pre> <p>At <strong>1.</strong> I am trying to instantiate my regression test class. It can be found in the file <strong>regressiontest.as</strong> and looks like this:</p> <pre><code>package regressiontest { public class TestRunner { public function TestRunner() { trace('Hello'); // Actual Test Code Here ... } } } </code></pre> <p>So now when I go to flash and debug the movie using Strg+Shift+Enter, I get the following error messages. I tried every way I could think of, so here is an overview of what I achieved so far:</p> <pre><code>var t = new TestRunner(); </code></pre> <p><strong>Message</strong>: 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method TestRunner.</p> <pre><code>var t = new regressiontest.TestRunner(); </code></pre> <p><strong>Messages</strong>:</p> <p>root.as: 1120: Access of undefined property regressiontest.</p> <p>regressiontest.as: 5001: The name of package 'regressiontest' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. folder\regressiontest.as</p> <p>regressiontest.as: 5008: The name of definition 'TestRunner' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the definition's name inside this file, or rename the file. folder\regressiontest.as</p> <pre><code>import regressiontest.TestRunner; var t = new TestRunner(); </code></pre> <p>root.as, Line 19: 1172: Definition regressiontest:TestRunner could not be found.</p> <p>root.as, Line 20: 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method TestRunner.</p> <p>What is most confusing to me is that Flash appears to be picking up the class definition in regressiontest.as somehow. When I put an obvious error, such as </p> <pre><code>public function TestRunner() { shoelace('Hello'); } </code></pre> <p>and use this to instantiate an object of the class:</p> <pre><code>var t:TestRunner = new regressiontest.TestRunner(); </code></pre> <p>then I get the <strong>Message</strong>:</p> <p>regressiontest.as: 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method shoelace.</p> <p>One might think now that the instantiation causes the problem. But when I set the code from shoelace to trace and leave the instantiation I get the following messages:</p> <p><strong>Messages</strong> Scene 1, Layer 'AS', Frame 1: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: TestRunner.</p> <p>root.as: 1120: Access of undefined property regressiontest.</p> <p>regressiontest.as: 5001: The name of package 'regressiontest' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition's name inside this file, or move the file. folder\regressiontest.as</p> <p>regressiontest.as: 5008: The name of definition 'TestRunner' does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the definition's name inside this file, or rename the file. folder\regressiontest.as</p> <p>I tried renaming the file within the package, I tried renaming the package, I tried importing with import regressiontest.*; and so on. What am I missing? </p> <ul> <li>What do I need to set my filename to? Does it need to match the PACKAGE NAME or the CLASS NAME? </li> <li>Am I missing some crazy camel case rule? </li> <li>Is there a maximum length to package names or something crazy like that? </li> <li>Did I forget to configure flash or the FLA file correctly? </li> <li>Am I missing some magic keyword?</li> <li>Might there be sideeffects from the includes or imports at the beginning of my script? </li> </ul> <p>I can reproduce these steps and I can provide the package via github. </p> <p>Thank you in advance, with clueless greetings from Heidelberg, Germany</p> <p>Johannes</p>

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