I have an animated button;
AS3
Button has three dynamic text fields on it;
Place button on stage.
myButton.btnLabelMain = "whatever"; // works as expected
Place new symbol on stage with button inside it:
mySym1.myButton.btnLabelMa
"Type Coercion failed: cannot convert "whatever" to flash.text.TextField"
Furthermore, the target tool is completely useless - relative or absolute. using it to populate the path generates yet another error such as this beauty:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property navBar through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjec
Thanks for reading, any tips are appreciated.
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I'm confused about how you're actually assigning the text at all. I'm assuming that btnLabelMain is a dynamic textfield with an instanceName of "btnLabelMain".
So to assign text to that label you should correctly be calling:
btnLabelMain.text = "my label text";
Is it possible this might be the error, and that the type coercion error is becuase you're trying to assing something of type "string" to something of type textField.
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You have a button called btnLabelMain . you converted it to a symbol and added 3 textFields?
One TextFiled is called btnLabelMain you want to assign text to it...
You cant simply assign text to an instance of a TextField you have to assign it to the text member
myButton.btnLabelMain.text
And the same for the outer symbol
mySym1.myButton.btnLabelMa
If you try to assign directly to the TextField you get an error "I cant do this to a textfield object" and the same for the Symbol
WC
This:
myButton.btnLabelMain = "whatever"; // works as expected
mySym1.myButton.btnLabelMa
Should have read:
myButton.btnLabelMain.text
mySym1.myButton.btnLabelMa
Where:
mySym1 has within it on frame 1 and instance of myButton
has within it on frame 1 myButton has within it on frame 1 and instance of btnLabelMain
They are all mc's.
There is no other AS.
There is only one frame in each MC
.
I saved the file, recompiled and repeatedly got the same error. Came back in the moring and it stopped doing it. Go figure..
I am posting a new question that might be marginally more interestihng to ya.
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by: ugebPosted on 2008-06-08 at 17:33:36ID: 21740152
Hi,
At least one error is that it looks like you're mixing data types and you may have a misplaced child object, which can be subtle problems. Is myButton a child of mySym1? Just placing myButton on the stage on top of mySym1 does not make it a child, and the mySym1.myButton syntax requires that it be a child. You can force it to be a child in AS3 by setting
mySym1.addChild(myButton);
Just to verify, call:
trace("number of children of mySym1 = "+ mySym1.numChildren);
Do you have code you can show? If not, maybe take a screen shot of your setup.