YAFB (Yet Another Flash Bug)

I finished writing a new ActionScript class to control my custom slide bars and tried to compile it. I got the following error:

The name of this class, 'Slider', conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, 'Slider'.
I have just spent another hour going over it trying to find what could possibly be wrong. I only loaded it once, and I couldn't find an in-built class called Slider, so what else could it be?

Well, apparently, it's the timestamp of my class definition file. My desktop clock is set at 09:12, my server clock is set at 10:16, and Flash complains. If I set my desktop clock a couple of hours into the future, it compiles just fine. Serves me right for not getting round to fixing my timeserver, I know, but this would cause problems with timezones too.

This product is a joke. And no, it it's not the latest version, but I'm not paying another £400 to upgrade purely to fix the buggy product I have already paid £400 for. They probably introduced a whole bunch more problems anyway.

After developing in Flash for 10 months, I am seriously wishing I had decided to do this in Java. And you all know how much I hate Java.

Comments

rm /etc/localtime

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime

Mark S

OMFG! Not Java! Damn, you must hate Flash and AS so much, WOW!

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