Undefined object in external file

rylle2000 · Dec 10, 2002

Hi I'm writing a script that uses an object (contstructed by myself) from antother .js file. The first line in the script just construct an instant of the object. Or should do, more correctly. IE 5.5 keeps saying that "'Matches' is undefined". Here's snippets of the code:

***********************
matches.js:
***********************
[tt]
/* Objekt för hantering av matcherna från Databasen */

function Matches(year, month) {
this.matches = new Array;
this.dateStack = new Array;
this.year = year;
this.month = month;
this.addMatch = mAddMatch;
this.getMatches = mGetMatches;
}

[/tt]
... (more code follows in the file)

***********************
javascript-test.html
***********************
[tt]
<html>
<head>
<title> JavaScript - test </title>

<script language="JavaScript" src="matches.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">

function init() {
//
var decMatches = new Matches(2002,12);
decMatches.addMatch(5,"A","18:00","Seriematch","Mossens IP","Mossens IP","St Jakob&quot

;

decMatches.addMatch(5,"C","17:00","Seriematch","Heden","Heden 7","Andra BK&quot

;
matches = decMatches.getMatches(2002+12+5+"&quot

;

str = "";

for (var i=0; i<matches.length; i++) {
var tempMatch = matches;
str = str + "|" + tempMatch.team + "|" + tempMatch.time + "|" + "<br>" +
"|" + tempMatch.type + "|" + tempMatch.place + "|" + "<br>" +
"|" + tempMatch.field + "|" + tempMatch.opponent + "|<br><br>";
}

document.write(str);
}

</script>
[/tt]
... (more code follows in the file)

Anyone got an idéa what's wrong?

rac2 · Dec 10, 2002

Maybe matches.js is not in the same folder with javascript-test.html

rylle2000 · Dec 10, 2002

I had a quite long block comment in the end of the .js-file (commenting other objects) that the javascript interpreter apparently didn't like very much.

There might have been some bracket or something in there that wasn't commented.
A javascript CAN end with a block comment, right?

rac2 · Dec 10, 2002

/*
certainly.

I believe that if the function defining the object has an error in, that the interpreter might report an undefined object error.

For example, if mAddMatch() were in the comment block it might cause Matches() to be undefined.
*/

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Undefined object in external file

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