As3 Error 1000 Ambiguous Reference
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Retrieving Data from Server... Compiler Errors Properties | Properties | Constructor | Methods | Global Constants | Events | Styles | Skin Parts | Skin States | Effects | Constants | Global Functions | Functions | Interfaces | Classes | Examples Classes x The following is a list of compilation errors that the compiler generates when it encounters invalid code. A subset of these errors is detected only when compiling code in strict http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6169369/error-in-actionscript-code-1000ambiguous-reference-to-button mode. Strict mode adds three constraints not found in the standard language: Expressions have static types and type errors are verification errors. Additional verification rules catch common programming errors. Verification errors are reported ahead of time. These are the verification errors that occur only in strict mode: Function call signature matching, which checks the number http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/compilerErrors.html of parameters supplied and their types. Duplicate definition conflicts. Unbound references, which occur when accessing methods or properties that are not defined at compile time. Dynamically adding properties on sealed objects. Writing to constant variables. Deleting fixed properties. Comparison expressions that use incompatible types. Unfound packages.
CodeMessageDescription1000Ambiguous reference to %s. A reference might be to more than one item. For example, the following uses the namespaces rss and xml, each of which defines a different value for the hello() function. The trace(hello()) statement returns this error because it cannot determine which namespace to use. private namespace rss; private namespace xml; public function ErrorExamples() { use namespace rss; use namespace xml; trace(hello()); } rss function hello():String { return "hola"; } xml function hello():String { return "foo"; } Correct an ambiguous reference by making the reference specific. The following example uses the form namespace::function to specify which namespace to use: public function ErrorExamples() { trace(rss::hello()); trace(xml::hello()); } 1003Access specifiers are not allowed with namespace attribufew months ago, I had already tried out various alternatives, among which the following (which was later also pointed out by others through the comments): [Bindable] // public getter: public http://www.rubenswieringa.com/blog/ambiguous-reference-bug-for-namespaces-in-flex function get someProperty ():String { return this._someProperty; } // protected setter: protected function http://flash.bigresource.com/ActionScript-3-0-compiler-is-throwing-that-1000-Ambiguous-reference-error-for-any-reference--ncsoJvJKY.html set someProperty (value:String):void { this._someProperty = value; } However, the problem here was that Flex throws an error saying "1000: Ambiguous reference to someProperty" whenever you try to use the setter. After reading a post by Adam Flater I decided to start looking through the documentation and found out that this is in fact a as3 error known compiler bug: 174646: If a class contains accessor functions with different access control namespace attributes, (for example, aprotected setter and a public getter) using one of them causes a compile-time-error, for example,Compiler-Error 1000: Ambiguous reference to myVar The workaround is to rename your getter or setter function to avoid the mismatch. Common Flex 2 compiler errors and known issues This bug doesn't seem to have been fixed as3 error 1000 in any of the Flex 2 hotfixes, and neither in the Flex 3 Beta (thanks to Wietse for testing). Let's hope the folks over at Adobe are going to do something about it.. Posted in Other 8 thoughts on “Ambiguous reference bug for namespaces in Flex” Comment navigation ← Older Comments Ruben March 2, 2008 at 5:37 PM @tomwag: I don't entirely agree with you there. First off, it's mostly the people that call AS3 an Object Oriented language. But mainly I disagree because your problem ("this simple pattern of having a property read-only except for derived classes is not supported") has little to do with a programming-language being Object Oriented or not. steve December 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM I'm coming from the .NET world and trying to learn Flex. Basic compiler bugs like this make it hard to take Flex seriously. Especially the fact that it hasn't been fixed and is over a year old. Thanks for article! April 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM The same thing is happening when we have base class with, for example, protected setter and getter. And we inherit this class. In inherited class we override, for example, getter. Then we have the same error.
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