Flash Action Script Error Repository http://www.actionscripterrors.com A library of solutions to Actionscript, Flash, Flex and AIR Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:50:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Multiple sets of visual children have been specified for the component tag http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2170 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2170#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:50:46 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2170 Multiple sets of visual children have been specified for the component tag.

You have contents in the default property of a container but also defined in the custom component. Remove the contents of the component instance and if need be move it into the component mxml file.

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  1. <!-- Incorrect - notice the rectangle inside the component instance -->
  2. <local:CustomComponent  x="135" y="9" width="457" height="340">
  3.     <s:Rect width="100%" height="100%">
  4.         <s:fill>
  5.             <s:SolidColor color="#dddddd"/>
  6.         </s:fill>
  7.     </s:Rect>
  8. </local:CustomComponent>
  9.  
  10. <!-- Correct - rectangle is defined in the component -->
  11. <local:CustomComponent  x="135" y="9" width="457" height="340" />

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2170 Invalid component name ‘default’: component name must be legal ActionScript class name. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2168 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2168#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:37:03 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2168 Invalid component name 'default': component name must be legal ActionScript class name. default.css

You cannot name a class or css file a reserved keyword such as, "if", "else", "switch", "default", etc

Incorrect filename:
default.css

Correct filename
styles.css

more info...

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2168 ” declaration must be contained within the tag, since it is not assignable to the default property’s element type ‘mx.core.IVisualElement’. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2167 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2167#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:43:43 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2167 '' declaration must be contained within the <Declarations> tag, since it is not assignable to the default property's element type 'mx.core.IVisualElement'.

This is interesting! I pasted code in an ichat window then copied it out and pasted it back into the MXML application file. After that I started getting the error mentioned here. It turns out there are hidden invisible characters that are incompatible with the compiler.

So to fix this problem I had to erase the white space near where the error was. This fixed the problem. NOTE: It may be the error is on the line above or line below where it is being reported.

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2167 ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property leadingModel not found on String and there is no default value. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2166 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2166#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:30:41 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2166 ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property leadingModel not found on String and there is no default value.
at flashx.textLayout.elements::LinkElement/computeLinkFormat()[C:\Vellum\branches\v1\1.0\dev\output\openSource\textLayout\src\flashx\textLayout\elements\LinkElement.as:437]

Incorrect Code:

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="92" y="22" color="#2b4381" editable="false" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:textFlow>
  3.             <s:TextFlow>
  4.                 <s:linkActiveFormat>
  5.                 </s:linkActiveFormat>
  6.                 <s:p>
  7.                     <s:a href="http://google.com"><s:span color="#f77d0e" textDecoration="none">link</s:span></s:a>
  8.                 </s:p>
  9.             </s:TextFlow>
  10.         </s:textFlow>
  11.     </s:RichEditableText>

Correct:

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="92" y="22" color="#2b4381" editable="false" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:textFlow>
  3.             <s:TextFlow>
  4.                 <s:p>
  5.                     <s:a href="http://google.com"><s:span color="#f77d0e" textDecoration="none">link</s:span></s:a>
  6.                 </s:p>
  7.             </s:TextFlow>
  8.         </s:textFlow>
  9.     </s:RichEditableText>

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2166 TypeError: Bad element of type int passed to mxmlChildren at flashx.textLayout.elements::FlowGroupElement/set mxmlChildren http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2165 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2165#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:35:02 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2165 TypeError: Bad element of type int passed to mxmlChildren
at flashx.textLayout.elements::FlowGroupElement/set mxmlChildren()[C:\Vellum\branches\v1\1.0\dev\output\openSource\textLayout\src\flashx\textLayout\elements\FlowGroupElement.as:203]

I using data binding and I passed a integer inside a span tag as shown below. To fix it I had to cast it or convert it to a string.

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="20" y="100" color="#2b4381" editable="false" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" width="494" height="55" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:textFlow>
  3.             <s:TextFlow>
  4.                 <s:p>
  5.                 <s:a href="http://google.com" color="#ffffff" textDecoration="none">   {data.contentCount} </s:a></s:p>
  6.             </s:TextFlow>
  7.         </s:textFlow>
  8.     </s:RichEditableText>

Correct:

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="20" y="100" color="#2b4381" editable="false" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" width="494" height="55" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:textFlow>
  3.             <s:TextFlow>
  4.                 <s:p>
  5.                 <s:a href="http://google.com" color="#ffffff" textDecoration="none">   {String(data.contentCount)} </s:a></s:p>
  6.             </s:TextFlow>
  7.         </s:textFlow>
  8.     </s:RichEditableText>

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2165 TypeError: Bad element of type flashx.textLayout.elements::LinkElement passed to mxmlChildren http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2164 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2164#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:01:25 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2164 TypeError: Bad element of type flashx.textLayout.elements::LinkElement passed to mxmlChildren
at flashx.textLayout.elements::SpanElement/set mxmlChildren()[C:\Vellum\branches\v1\1.0\dev\output\openSource\textLayout\src\flashx\textLayout\elements\SpanElement.as:209]
at Test/_Test_SpanElement1_c()[/Users/monkeypunch/Documents/test/src/Test.mxml:5]

Incorrect:

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  1. <s:RichText x="20" y="100" color="#2b4381" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" tabStops="S0 S50 S100 S150 S200 S250 S300 S350 S400 S450 S500" width="494" height="55" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:content><s:p><s:span color="#f77d0e"><s:a href="http://google.com">{data.username}</s:a></s:span><s:span> </s:span><s:span color="#ffffff">posted 18 photos to</s:span><s:span> </s:span><s:span color="#0693ab">Web 2.0 Silicon Valley Design Team</s:span></s:p></s:content>
  3.     </s:RichText>

Correct: LinkElements cannot be children of span tags. Move the span inside of the link element or copy the attributes from the span to the link.

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="20" y="100" color="#2b4381" editable="false" fontFamily="Myriad Pro" fontSize="17" width="494" height="55" whiteSpaceCollapse="preserve">
  2.         <s:textFlow>
  3.             <s:TextFlow>
  4.                 <s:p><s:a href="http://google.com"><s:span color="#f77d0e" textDecoration="none">{data.username}</s:span></s:a><s:span color="#ffffff"> posted 18 photos to</s:span><s:span> </s:span><s:span color="#0693ab">Web 2.0 Silicon Valley Design Team</s:span></s:p>
  5.             </s:TextFlow>
  6.         </s:textFlow>
  7.     </s:RichEditableText>

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2164 The dependency spark.components.Button from /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4/sdks/4.0.0/frameworks/libs/spark.swc has a minimum supported version of 4.0.0, which is higher than the compatibility version, 3.0.0. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2163 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2163#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:51:25 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2163 The dependency spark.components.Button from /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4/sdks/4.0.0/frameworks/libs/spark.swc has a minimum supported version of 4.0.0, which is higher than the compatibility version, 3.0.0.

Problem
The "Use Flex 3 Compatibility mode" flag is checked in the Flash Builder compiler settings and conflicts with the Flex SDK version you have chosen. Read more here... http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Compatibility+Mode+SWC+Policy+(Mini+Specification)

Solution
Turn off this option in the Flex Compiler settings by unchecking this box in your project. Easy...

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2163 Initializer for ‘dataProvider’: values of type mx.collections.IList cannot be represented in text. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2162 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2162#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:41:51 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2162 Initializer for 'dataProvider': values of type mx.collections.IList cannot be represented in text.

Problem

The problem is we are not enclosing the reference to array collection with curly braces. The list component thinks that we are passing a string. So changing from "myData" to "{myData}".

Incorrect code:

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  1.     &lt;fx:Declarations&gt;
  2.  
  3. &lt;s:ArrayCollection id="myData"&gt;
  4. &lt;s:source&gt;
  5. &lt;fx:Object label="Engineering" data="ENG"/&gt;
  6. &lt;fx:Object label="Product Management" data="PM"/&gt;
  7. &lt;fx:Object label="Marketing" data="MKT"/&gt;
  8. &lt;/s:source&gt;
  9. &lt;/s:ArrayCollection&gt;
  10. &lt;/fx:Declarations&gt;
  11.  
  12. &lt;s:List dataProvider="myData" x="10" y="10" width="575" height="297" skinClass="ActivityStreamSkin"&gt;&lt;/s:List&gt;

Solution

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  1. &lt;s:List dataProvider="{myData}" x="10" y="10"  width="575" height="297"  skinClass="ActivityStreamSkin"&gt;&lt;/s:List&gt;

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2162 The default property contents must be contiguous http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2161 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2161#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:32:15 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2161 The default property contents must be contiguous

When in Design View in Flex 4 you must keep the visual design MXML code together. Having a Script block right in the middle of it will create this error.

Incorrect:

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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
  3.                xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
  4.                xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
  5.  
  6.     <!-- Visual markup code -->
  7.     <s:TextInput x="26" y="134" id="code1" width="302" text="Status of Mic"/>
  8.  
  9.     <!-- Script tag interrupts and is located in the middle of visual markup code -->
  10.     <fx:Script>
  11.         <![CDATA[
  12.         private var swfpgno:int = 1;
  13.         ]]>
  14.     </fx:Script>
  15.  
  16.     <!-- Visual markup code -->
  17.     <s:TextInput x="26" y="77" id="mic1" width="302"/>
  18. </s:Application>

Correct:

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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
  3.                xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
  4.                xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
  5.  
  6.     <!-- Script tag does not interrupt flow of design view code -->
  7.     <fx:Script>
  8.         <![CDATA[
  9.         private var swfpgno:int = 1;
  10.         ]]>
  11.     </fx:Script>
  12.  
  13.     <!-- Design View visual markup is in a continuous block -->
  14.     <s:TextInput x="26" y="134" id="code1" width="302" text="Status of Mic"/>
  15.     <s:TextInput x="26" y="77" id="mic1" width="302"/>
  16.  
  17. </s:Application>

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2161 The type selector ” was not processed, because the type was not used in the application. http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2160 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2160#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:03:50 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2160 The type selector 'Alert' was not processed, because the type was not used in the application.

Reason
The compiler is telling you that it can't find a case where the CSS that you are including inline or in a stylesheet is being used in the application. This is regardless if it will be used at another time. If it's not being used in the application it's not included at run time.

To remove this warning add the following line to the command line arguments:

-show-unused-type-selector-warnings=false

Note that "unused' type selectors aren't included to keep the file size down.

If you want to include every CSS type selector whether it's being used or not add the following line to the command line arguments:

-keep-all-type-selectors=true

To change command line arguments in Flash Builder navigate to Properties > Flex Compiler > Additional Compiler Arguments.

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2160 Error: Unexpected element spanwithin a span http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2159 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2159#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:33:22 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2159 Error: Unexpected element spanwithin a span (sic)

Reason
Span's cannot contain other spans. Spans can only contain text. More information...

Spans should be closed off before starting a new one.

Original Code:

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  1. public var myString:XML = <div><img source="images/spinning_loader1.swf"/><span fontStyle="italic"><span fontWeight="bold">Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications...</span></span><br/></div>;

Correct code:

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  1. <flow:span>Some text that is </flow:span><flow:span fontWeight="bold">bold and </flow:span><flow:span fontWeight="bold" textDecoration="underline">bold and underlined</flow:span>

]]> http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?feed=rss2&p=2159 ArgumentError: newElement not of a type that this can be parent of http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2158 http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2158#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:57:24 +0000 admin http://www.actionscripterrors.com/?p=2158 ArgumentError: NewElement not of a type that this can be parent of

Reason
TextFlow markup is malformed. It does not allow certain elements to contain other elements. For example, a paragraph cannot contain another paragraph. It also occurs when you have line breaks in your markup tags, "\n\t\t\t\t".

Incorrect:

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="93" y="22">
  2.         <s:content>
  3.             <s:TextFlow xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008">

Notice the line break after the content tag.

Correct:

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  1. <s:RichEditableText x="93" y="22">
  2.         <s:content><s:TextFlow xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008">

Read more here...

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