Script crashes IDE and Flash Player but works in browsers

Question posted by: activa (Newbie) on May 1st, 2008 07:22 PM

I'm building a game program and I've got a script that loads an external swf, and then duplicates the clip for the user to play. It worked until a few days ago when I reinstalled my OS (Mac OS 10.4.11) to fix an unrelated problem. The strange thing is that I had reinstalled the browser plugin to fix a related problem. Now the code works in the browser, but crashes the IDE and the Flash Player every time. I called Adobe Support but they were no help since it's "project related." I've reinstalled CS3 and Flash itself, but nothing helps.

Here's the code that crashes:

Code: ( text )

// INITIALIZE LOADER AND ADD TO STAGE
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader;
addChild (myLoader);
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener (Event.COMPLETE, isLoaded);
// DUPLICATE CLIP WHEN LOADED
function isLoaded (event:Event):void {
event.target.content.width = 100;
event.target.content.height= 200;
// THIS IS THE LINE THAT CRASHES
var copyClass:Class = Object(event.target.content).constructor;
var newThing:DisplayObject = new (copyClass);
addChild (newThing);
newThing.x +=50;
}
myLoader.load (new URLRequest('coloring/coloring1.swf'));

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