Question : Flash actionscript 3 : Error #1010

Hi,

I have a huge FLA / AS3, which I did not create, that contains hundreds of lines of code.

I made some design changes, mainly text, fonts etc..

it got screwed up and all I get is a mysterious report:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
      at main4_fla::MainTimeline/frame2()
classes count: 169
bonus count: 169



where ? how ? what ?

if there is a problem , why won't flash compiler tell me where ?

can it be that Adobe took the product a few steps back from the AS2 compiler ?

i tried everything , even undoing changes, copying symbols from older versions... nothing helps...

how can I get some helpfull info about the error ?

line number ? object name ? something ?

thanks!

Answer : Flash actionscript 3 : Error #1010

Well, if you have any experience with traditional programming frameworks, you will see nothing like Flash around... and the Flash IDE (the software tool) is more of a way for designers to "visually program" by using tools they are familiar with.  So the programmer in who did the Actionscript for this should never have placed code in the visual editor, and especially should not have use 10 layers of Actionscript code...  that is just is just a debuging nightmare...  

If all of the code where at the very least in one frame on one layer, then debugging would be much easier.

here is an older link, but the same theory applies...  

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/whitepapers/actionscript_standards.pdf


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