Question

I’m trying to mix two tutorials in one game. Level 3 is previously used in a action script file but I transferred it into a normal AS3 timeline.

I get this error:

ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on adventure_fla::MainTimeline/newObjects(). Expected 0, got 1.
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

This is the code… sorry if its messy.

    const speed:Number = 5.0;
    var nextObject:Timer;
 // array of objects
    var objects:Array = new Array();

function initGame():void{
player.x=200;
player.y=400;
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,movePlayer);
Mouse.hide();
player.gotoAndStop("arrow");
setGameTimer();
newObjects();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveObject);
}

    function movePlayer(e:MouseEvent):void{

    player.x=mouseX;
    e.updateAfterEvent();}

    function setGameTimer():void {
trace("GAME TIMER STARTED");
var gameTimer:Timer = new Timer(40000, 1);
gameTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, endGame);
gameTimer.start()
    }

    function endGame(e:Event):void {
    trace("Game Over");
    // remove all objects
    for (var i:int=objects.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
        removeChild(objects[i]);
        objects.splice(i, 1);
    }  }

    function setNextObject():void {
nextObject = new Timer(1000, 1);
nextObject.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, newObjects);
nextObject.start();

    function newObjects():void{
//create next object
        // array of good and bad objects
        var badObjects:Array = ["Bad_1", "Bad_2"]
        var goodObjects:Array = ["Good_1", "Good_2"]
        // create random number
        if (Math.random() < .5 ) {
            //based of treat object length
            var r:int = Math.floor(Math.random()*goodObjects.length);
            // get the treat object by name and cast it as its own class in a temporary variable
            var classRef:Class = getDefinitionByName(goodObjects[r]) as Class;
            // now we can make a new version of the class
            var newObjects:MovieClip = new classRef();
            // dynamic var (because mc is an object) typestr it as good
            newObjects.typestr = "good";
        } else {
            //  for bad same as above
            r = Math.floor(Math.random()*badObjects.length);
            var classRef:Class = getDefinitionByName(badObjects[r]) as Class;
            var newObjects:MovieClip = new classRef();
            // typestr it bad
            newObjects.typestr = "bad";
        }
        // random pos
        newObjects.x = Math.random()* 500;
        newObjects.scaleX = newObjects.scaleY = .4;
        addChild(newObjects);
        // push it to array
        objects.push(newObjects);
        // create another one
        setNextObject();

    }

     function moveObject(e:Event):void {
    // cycle thru objects using a for loop
    for (var i:int=objects.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
        //move objects down based on speed
        objects[i].y += speed;
        objects[i].rotation += speed;
        // if objects leaves the stage
        if (objects[i].y > 400) {

            removeChild(objects[i]);

            objects.splice(i, 1);

        }
    }
  }

Answer 1

newObjects does not take any arguments, but it’s used as an event listener (which requires it to take the event object).

It should probably look something like function newObjects(event:TimerEvent):void.