[FrozenMedia]

So they added JS syntax to Director, making it much easier for us Actionscripters to head on over and dip our toes for certain projects, that's what was meant to happen...

It seems they didn't implement the ECMA standard too well due to incompatibilities with lingo, can anyone really good at understanding scoped languages (Tim u there :P) take a look at this and tell me what they think:

Actionscript:

trace("Global script scope");
 
_global.a = 1;
 
function locals() {
   a = 6;
   trace(a);  // 6
   delete a;
   trace(a);  // 1
   
   // var a = 5;  // If you uncomment this line, the previous 2 traces, trace "5" also ???
}


function locals2() {
  var a = 10;
  trace(a);  // 10
}


function locals3() {
  trace (a);   // 1
  this.a = 8;
  trace(a);    // 8
}

 
function locals4() {
  delete a;            // Comment out this line & next trace is "8" ??
  delete _global.a;    // Comment out this line & next trace is "1" ??
  trace(a);            // Don't comment either and trace is "undefined"
}


locals();   // Expected results until line is uncommented
locals2();  // Expected results
locals3();  // Expected results
locals4();  // What the hell is going on when you comment out lines

P.S. This is Director JS code not AS. Most of it is fine, but you can see in the 1st and 4th functions thing go a bit whacky with the marked lines. This explains some of it http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/...zation_02.html

Rich

p.p.s Anyone managed to get code coloring working properly with JS syntax?