Unable to solve flash error 5000: The class … must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip'

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  •  27-09-2019
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Question

I'm getting the following error on my flash project 5000: The class ... must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type. I looked at the class and made sure that I import flash.display.MovieClip and I do. I tried to change the base class in the linkage to flash.display.MovieClip but I got the following message: "The base class specified is a native class and will be defined in the player at runtime. It cannot be edited."

How can I fix this issue? Thanks in advance, Kfir

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Solution 2

Well I just had the same bug in another project and decided that I should post the solution. For some bizarre reason this error may occur when the references of the project are invalid. In my case all I had to do is go to File->Publish Settings->Flash->Settings and update all the paths there. That solved my problem.

I hope this will help other people out there and maybe the someone from the flash team will see this and patch this bug.

OTHER TIPS

importing the MovieClip class gets you halfway there, you have to actually extend the class with MovieClip as well.

ie)

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip

    public class MyClass extends MovieClip
    {

    .....

I had the same problem when transfering my files from my desktop computer on my laptop. Actually I tried all I can, but the kfir solution put me on the good way... Refreshing all the paths in File->Publish Settings->Flash->Settings wasn't enough for me... I also had to rewrite all the paths to classes in the miniclip properties. To be more precise, I even had to remove it, click on the tick icon (to validate the path blank), and rewrite the path again and re-tick...

Sounds really wired but does work for me.

Solved: I exported the Publish Settings from other flash that worked well, imported them in the document that gave me error 5000, and it solved the problem!

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