[CS4] JSFL problems AGAIN

[Mavrisa]

Alright, so I'm branching off a bit from Lee Brimlow's tutorial on Creating Custom Flash Panels, and I'm trying to have it set the default stroke and fill colours as well. Here is the code I was trying to use:

var jsfl:String = "var doc:document = fl.getDocumentDOM();var fill:fill = doc.getCustomFill('toolbar');fill.style = 'solid';fill.color = 0x" + colour.toString(16) + ";doc.setCustomFill(fill);";
MMExecute(jsfl)

But I keep getting the following error:

The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:

SyntaxError: missing ; before statement


I then decided to see if it was the fault of my colour (which is a uint, holding the hex value of the colour) variable, so I set it to this:

var jsfl:String = "var doc:document = fl.getDocumentDOM();var fill:fill = doc.getCustomFill('toolbar');fill.style = 'solid';fill.color = 0x000000;doc.setCustomFill(fill);";
MMExecute(jsfl)

And still got the same error! What am I doing wrong?

[5TonsOfFlax]

That was one annoying movie. NOTHING happened for the first 45 seconds, and then stuff started going at a snail's pace. A written tutorial with screenshots would have been much better.

Anyway. JSFL is Javascript, not Actionscript. As such, the type declarations should not be present.

    var jsfl:String = "var doc = fl.getDocumentDOM();var fill = doc.getCustomFill('toolbar');fill.style = 'solid';fill.color = 0x" + colour.toString(16) + ";doc.setCustomFill(fill);";
    MMExecute(jsfl);

[Mavrisa]

Haha sorry about the tutorial :P A lot of them are really helpful, if a bit slow...

Anyways. That worked wonderfully, thank you very much.
Just wondering though. If Javascript is just another dialect of ECMAScript, then why is the typing different?

[5TonsOfFlax]

Actionscript is actually the odd man out in that regard. Standard ECMAScript and Javascript are, not exactly untyped, but dynamically typed. Actionscript 3 adheres to a proposed standard for ECMAScript 4 (and Javascript 2) which I think is vastly technically superior, but was shot down for political reasons by Microsoft.

[Mavrisa]

Dang ol' Microsoft. I'd have to agree with you, static typing just feels... right. And of course it's probably loads faster. Anyways, thank you for all your help.