# Variable stating

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 7, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622 "2004-08-07T10:05:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cardjorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@cardjorg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cardjorg)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/1 "2004-08-07T10:05:50Z")

</div>

Hi everyone , 🙂

You know on Flash MX2004 you have to state variables before using them or else you get a NaN error, well anyone knows how can this be changed so you don’t have to state them before using them like in Flash MX

Thanks  
:thumb:

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/2 "2004-08-07T10:14:38Z")

</div>

cant. Just the way Flash Player 7 swfs work.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cardjorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@cardjorg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cardjorg)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/3 "2004-08-07T10:19:21Z")

</div>

Thanks 🙂

so If you have like 30 variables you have to set them all to 0 in the first frame before you use them ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/4 "2004-08-07T10:25:58Z")

</div>

yes, if you intend on attempting to accessing their variable before setting them otherwise, yes.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cardjorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@cardjorg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cardjorg)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/5 "2004-08-07T10:28:45Z")

</div>

Thanks Sen 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variable-stating/118622/6 "2004-08-07T10:35:05Z")

</div>

np 😉