Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animations and Interactivity
by Rich Shupe and Robert Hoekman, Jr.

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated March 20, 2007.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 

[42]  Action #4;
Converting a shape to a symbol results in an "undefined" entry in history. The whole
example for creating a command and working with history is built around that. An
"undefined" entry in history is not replayable and cannot be saved as part of a
command.

I tried creating a symbol from the menu item and from F8 and used various shapes and
continue to get the "undefined" entry.


[65]  Step 2;
Selecting Flash Player 5 gets an error message. The file is published, but is not
fully operational. This error is repeated later on other pages of the book. This can 
be avoided by choosing Flash Player 6.


(82)  middle of page;
parm of getURL is listed as "_parent", it should be "_blank"


{92}  paragraph after step 15;
The rectangle actually increases in height from the bottom, not from its center point.


{92}  item 6;
Button will not be aligned as described unless symbol position of button is based
upon upper left. Mine was specified as the center and I had to change it to upper left
to be correct.


(93)  second paragraph under What's Next?;
I can find no animated_buttons.fla file.


{93}  step 8;
When you drag the right edge handle, both sides of the button move. Tried it with a
new page and a freshly converted rectangle to a button and it behaved the same. Not sure
what the easiest method to use to get proper size and center the button, but it is a
huge pain.


(98)  last paragraph;
There are no navigation.png or wolk_cycle.png files. There are some fla and swf files
with similar names. This should be revised to indicate the proper files.


(261)  Step 1 near the top of the page;
Instruction should be to open the form.fla not the quiz.fla.


(273)  Step 2;
Should read "Open the File --> Publish Settings" and not "Open the File --> Projector
Settings".


{279/280}  Step 6, bottom of pg. 279 & top of pg. 280;
In the two button handlers 'Void' [as in function():Void] is omitted from the example
on the cd.

I'm just a beginner with ActionScript but I couldn't get this example to work
following the steps in the book. Copying the example on the cd (which differs from
the book as described above) seemed to solve the problem.


(283)  Steps 2 & 4 in the bottom half of the page;
The size & position of the text fields have been mixed up between these two steps.
In step 2 they should be: 174 * 18 pixels, positioned at 1, 124.
In step 4 they should be: 174 * 40, positioned at 1, 145.


(284)  Step 3 near the top of the page;
As well as needing to create additional keyframes at frames 20, 30, and 40, another one
is needed at frame 10.


(284)  Steps 2&3;
The y co-ordinates in both steps should be 20, not 120.


(286)  Step 4;
stop();
Should be at the top (before fscommand2...) as it is in the example on the included
cd-rom.


(302)  Step 11;
Extra 's' (shown in square brackets in the example) in four of the lines in the
script in this step, e.g.
canvas_mc.lineTo(circle1._x, circle[s]1._y);