# \[FMX\] Check this, it's hilarious

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449 "2004-09-07T01:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![theseum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@theseum](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theseum)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449/1 "2004-09-07T01:31:20Z")

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so some of you might have noticed my earlier thread:  
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69034](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69034)

I finally solved the problem which had stymied me for a week. The problem was the NAME of my array. the array was name theSounds. changing the name to puppies fixed it. The real irony here is that I had already changed the name from sounds to theSounds, because I had had a similar problem a while ago.

Somebody should make a list of all the names you aren’t allowed to use. And when I say somebody, I mean Macromedia. \*\*\*\* their eyes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449/2 "2004-09-07T03:19:11Z")

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Strange - I would have guessed that, since, theSounds was not colored in a blue/dark-blue color in the AS code, it was safe to use. Glad you got it solved though 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449/3 "2004-09-07T03:26:18Z")

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Yea I hear ya K-man, I bet it was something else as well. One thing that comes to mind is the stopAllSounds(). Notice the word Sounds is used just like you were doing with theSounds.

My 2 cents 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-check-this-its-hilarious/63449/4 "2004-09-07T14:29:00Z")

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actually I just realized that I was wrong about the fix… the actual problem was the line for (sound in this.theSounds). the problem was the creation of a variable named sound which for obvious reasons (well reason obvious to an experienced Actionscript programmer, tho perhaps not to somebody who uses a _real_ language) broke the Sound object. The reason I thought it had to do with the theSounds array was that until theSounds was populated, the object sound didn’t get created. when I changed theSounds to puppies, I also changed sound to puppy, which fixed the problem.

well I’ll be seeing you guys next time I have a problem I can’t fix, hope I helped some ppl out in the meantime!