Why I Love Flash

Monday, June 05, 2006, at 09:30AM

By Eric Richardson

Just take a minute to read this helpful error message from the Flash app:

Warning The linkage identifier 'Comp Icon' was already assigned to the symbol 'Local Map Graphics/Comp Icon', and cannot be assigned to the symbol 'Local Map Graphics/Comp Icon', since linkage identifiers must be unique.

I'm pretty baffled on how to convince Flash that Local Map Graphics/Comp Icon and Local Map Graphics/Comp Icon are the same thing. You would think it would already know they were, seeing as there's only one of it (them) in the Library.

Unrelated, but comments are also broken. I got halfway in a spam-fighting attempt and decided I preferred to leave them broken and off than spammy and on.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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