Accessing Arrays in and out of functions

programming flash
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Okay, so I’m creating a soundboard, and and I’ve been using Flash for about 2 weeks and Actionscript for about a week, so you’ll have to excuse my ignorance. I’ve used google to look for specific things to no avail so here I am.

Okay, so, I have a soundboard that, when pressing a button, it will hide or show certain buttons on the page, to give the feeling of multiple pages. All my visibility stuff works like a champ.

Right now, in the working version of my soundboard, I’m not using functions to instantiate my linkable objects, create the array, or populate the array to hold the linkable objects.

I would like to use functions to make my code less obtuse. I looked around for a while trying to figure out how to pass an array of objects into a function but i haven’t had much success. I’m not quite sure if it’s even possible to do. Any ideas on how to improve my code would be greatly appreciated.

These are the errors I get:

1120: Access of undefined property playArraySound001.
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method play through a reference with static type Class.
1120: Access of undefined property playArraySound001.
1120: Access of undefined property GordonSoundArray.
1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 1.

The first code is what works, the next code is the stuff that doesn’t work.

This is the working version


//////////// CODE FOR PLAYING SOUNDS 
//// This is creating an instance of the Linkable object 
var playArraySound001:Link_10_minutes = new Link_10_minutes();
var playArraySound002:Link_3_eggs = new Link_3_eggs();
var playArraySound003:Link_actually_quite_spectacular = new Link_actually_quite_spectacular();

//// Creates a new array
var GordonSoundArray:Array = new Array();

//// This is populating an element in a new array with a linkable sound object
GordonSoundArray[0]=playArraySound001;
GordonSoundArray[1]=playArraySound002;
GordonSoundArray[2]=playArraySound003;

//// Playing the sound in an array, from an object made Linkable
btnTest1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest1);
function soundtest1(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[0].play();
}

btnTest2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest2);
function soundtest2(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[1].play();
}

btnTest3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest3);
function soundtest3(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[2].play();
}

//// All Code Above works and works correctly

this is the version that doesn’t work


//////////CODE FOR PLAYING SOUNDS 

//// This is creating an instance of the Linkable object 
/*var playArraySound001:Link_10_minutes = new Link_10_minutes();
var playArraySound002:Link_3_eggs = new Link_3_eggs();
var playArraySound003:Link_actually_quite_spectacular = new Link_actually_quite_spectacular();*/

//// Creates a new array
/*var GordonSoundArray:Array = new Array();*/

//// This is populating an element in a new array with a linkable sound object
/*GordonSoundArray[0]=playArraySound001;
GordonSoundArray[1]=playArraySound002;
GordonSoundArray[2]=playArraySound003;*/

//// Playing the sound in an array, from an object made Linkable
/*btnTest1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest1);*/
/*function soundtest1(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[0].play();
}*/

/*btnTest2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest2);*/
/*function soundtest2(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[1].play();
}*/

/*btnTest3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest3);*/
/*function soundtest3(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[2].play();
}*/

//// All Code Above works and works correctly

//////////////////////////// Below: Function and Array Testing. /////////////////////////////
////// Going to Mirror the Above code but make them functions instead


//// This is creating an instance of the Linkable object IN A FUNCTION
function createInstancesOfLinkableObjects() {
    //// This is creating an instance of the Linkable object 
    var playArraySound001:Link_10_minutes = new Link_10_minutes();
    var playArraySound002:Link_3_eggs = new Link_3_eggs();
    var playArraySound003:Link_actually_quite_spectacular = new Link_actually_quite_spectacular();
}

//// Creates a new array IN A FUNCTION
function createGordonSoundArray():void {
    var GordonSoundArray:Array = new Array();
}


//// This is populating an element in a new array with a linkable sound object IN A FUNCTION
function assignLinkagesToArrays():void {
    //// This is populating an element in a new array with a linkable sound object
    GordonSoundArray[0]=playArraySound001;
    //GordonSoundArray[1]=playArraySound002;
    //GordonSoundArray[2]=playArraySound003;
    }
    
//// Functions to play the sounds in an array, from the objects made Linkable    
function soundtest1(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    Link_10_minutes.play();
}
function soundtest2(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    playArraySound001.play();
}
function soundtest3(event_object:MouseEvent):void {
    GordonSoundArray[0].play();
}

//// Executing the functions directly without calling them from an event
createInstancesOfLinkableObjects();
createGordonSoundArray();
assignLinkagesToArrays();




//// test buttons for the functions to play the sounds
btnTest1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest1);
btnTest2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest2);
btnTest3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, soundtest3);