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Getting funky errors with a simple for loop, anyone care to help?

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Nov 29th, 2006
Hello All,


I have a javascript image preloading script I'm writing, and it basically creates an array called "array_name" which contains the image filenames, and then uses a for loop to assign "array_name"'s elements to another array called "preload". I know my syntax is good, but the firefox javascript inspector is complaining each time I attempt to run this. Can anyone take a look at the code, and tell me what I'm doing wrong?



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  1. function imgLoad() {
  2. array_name=[];
  3. preload=[];
  4. array_name[0]='images/bgcolor.gif'; 
  5. array_name[1]='images/blackdot.gif'; 
  6. array_name[2]='images/bold.gif'; 
  7. array_name[3]='images/centre.gif'; 
  8. array_name[4]='images/copy.gif'; 
  9. array_name[5]='images/cut.gif'; 
  10. array_name[6]='images/email.gif'; 
  11. array_name[7]='images/hr.gif'; 
  12. array_name[8]='images/hyperlink.gif'; 
  13. array_name[9]='images/image.gif'; 
  14. array_name[10]='images/indent.gif'; 
  15. array_name[11]='images/insert_table.gif'; 
  16. array_name[12]='images/italic.gif'; 
  17. array_name[13]='images/justifyfull.gif'; 
  18. array_name[14]='images/left_just.gif'; 
  19. array_name[15]='images/list.gif'; 
  20. array_name[16]='images/numbered_list.gif'; 
  21. array_name[17]='images/outdent.gif'; 
  22. array_name[18]='images/paste.gif'; 
  23. array_name[19]='images/redo.gif'; 
  24. array_name[20]='images/right_just.gif'; 
  25. array_name[21]='images/smiley.gif'; 
  26. array_name[22]='images/spellcheck.gif'; 
  27. array_name[23]='images/textcolor.gif'; 
  28. array_name[24]='images/underline.gif'; 
  29. array_name[25]='images/undo.gif'; 
  30. for (var i = 0; i < array_name.length; i++) {
  31.     var preload[i] = new Image();
  32.     preload[i].src = array_name[i];
  33. }
  34. }
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Re: Getting funky errors with a simple for loop, anyone care to help?

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Nov 29th, 2006
try replacing:
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array_name=[];
preload=[];
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array_name= new Array();
preload=new Array();

What is the error produced?
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Re: Getting funky errors with a simple for loop, anyone care to help?

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try replacing:
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array_name=[];
preload=[];
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array_name= new Array();
preload=new Array();

What is the error produced?



The error thats produced is:


missing ; before statement
var preload[i] = new Image();

imgarray.js (line 31)

Though honestly, I think I'm going to ignore this error. I just noticed that the firefox javascript inspector reports no errors with it, however "Firebug" (an extension I have installed) found error with it. If you see something I'm doing wrong, or something that's bad style which would cause Firebug to spit out errors, feel free to let me know, otherwise I'm gonna consider this problem "solved".
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Re: Getting funky errors with a simple for loop, anyone care to help?

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ha... the only thing i can think is:
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for (var i = 0; i < array_name.length; i++;) {
    var preload[i] = new Image();
    preload[i].src = array_name[i];
}
but hey, i've never seen that last ; put in, and it shouldn't (doesn't need to) be put in really...

EDIT: Actually, this seems wrong/uneccessary:
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var preload[i] = new Image();
preload[i] is already indirectly "var'd" when you make the array.
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Yea, I actually didn't have ; there before, just put it there to see if it would "fix" the problem. I thought that I had to put var in front of all variables that appear within a for loop, so that they stay local? Anyways, thanks for the help.
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thats not a local variable; you are assigning index "i", of the inherited scope/routine scope/public scope array "preload" to reference a new Image object, which is automatically var'd and scoped by that assignment (infact, you'll find that Image isn't accessible by any scope; its scope sort of disapears, and it can only be accessed through the array)

If you were doing this:
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for (var i = 0; i < array_name.length; i++) {
    var thisImage = new Image();
    thisImage.src = array_name[i];
    preload[i] = thisImage;
}

then you'd need (or should use) the var.
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