RE: [flasher] Strange, strange bug? Error?

[Rebecca Lovelace]

Are you doing all your action script with included code?

I ran into a problem where I hit an upper limit with too many lines of

included action script, beyond that it just ignored them.


Rebecca


-----Original Message-----

From: Glen Rhodes [

grhodesdceg [dot] com (mailto:grhodesdceg [dot] com)

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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:07 PM

To: flasher from chinwag

Subject: [flasher] Strange, strange bug? Error?



Maybe this one is best answered by the high-priest techies at Macromedia.



2 problems:

first, Anyone know what "Malformed Include" means?  The included .as file

itself is fine, and the line that says


#include "levels.as";


Looks fine... yet I'm being told that I have a "malformed" include.


secondly... and even stranger...  My game is doing some strange things

sometimes... seemingly quite random glitches, at random times.

For example..

run the game once and it's fine.

Close it down...

run it again..

and maybe this time.. the main timeline is stopped (child MC's are running

fine)...

close it down..

run it again...

and maybe this time.. the _root movie (the whole thing) is attached to the

mouse as if it had recieved a startDrag, and it's attached to the mouse,

following wherever it goes in the window.

close it down..

run it again...

and maybe this time it's totally fine.

close it down..

run it again...

and maybe this time, game pieces are all over the place, yet the game is

running fine.


Bottom line: Very glitchy, inconsistent behaviour.   What massive internal

errors could be causing such erratic fun and folly.   Catchable errors are

usually identical EACH TIME you run the program... but there's NO

predictability here.


Do I have too much code in one frame?  Memory overload?  (the whole movie is

350k)  I have 47k of init code in frame 1.


I try to not post questions/problems to the list unless I'm TRULY stumped,

and have totally exhausted all my own knowledge and research.


Thanks, if anyone can help.


------------------

Glen Rhodes



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