Reference to id that equals an objects key is showing undefined

Reference to id that equals an objects key is showing undefined
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#1

I’m trying to play audio sounds in my project. I made an object with the sounds and the keys are equal to the id’s of the divs I want them to play on. In the playermoveDown function, e.target.id is equal to the keys of the object with the sounds, but when I try to play it shows undefined. I will appreciate any help with this. Here is the code-

const sounds = {
  green : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound1.mp3"),
  blue : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound4.mp3"),
  yellow : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound3.mp3"),
  red : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound2.mp3")
};

function playerMoveDown(e){
  e.target.style.backgroundColor = colors[0].get(e.target);
  let color = e.target.id;
  sounds.color.play();
  return game.playerMoves.push(e.target);
}

project link https://codepen.io/icewizard/pen/JLBpNQ

#2

Okay, the way you originally wrote it, you’re treating color as a property of sound.

let color = e.target.id;
sounds.color.play();   // not what you think it should do

But ‘color’ not a property of sound, instead it’s a variable.

So you actually need to do this…

  let color = e.target.id;
  sounds[color].play();

then it works!

#3

thanks that works. I thought you could only access keys with brackets in arrays. I remember reading somewhere though that all objects are arrays or the other way around in javascript.

#4

It’s called bracket notation.

myobject.myproperty 
// is the same as 
myobject["myproperty"]

// so you could then
var x = "myproperty";
myobject[x]
#5

I wrote this function to show flashing lights for a simon game that I’m making. The flashing part is working, but I’m trying to play a sound everytime move.color.backgroundColor === colors[0], which is the highlighted color. The array is being looped over too fast for me to do this and I’ve been getting several different errors trying to solve this different ways, including all the sounds going off before the flashing has finished because the for loop variable finished looping faster than the variables showed flashing and then breaking the flashing function, even though its supposed to go at 1 second per loop. Here is the code -

game.computerMoves = {green, blue, blue, red, red, yellow};

const colors = [
 new Map([[green, "lime"], [yellow, "#FF6"], [blue, "dodgerblue"], [red,               "salmon"]]),
 new Map([[green, "green"], [yellow, "#CC0"], [red, "red"], [blue, "blue"]])
];

const sounds = {
 green : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound1.mp3"),
 blue : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound4.mp3"),
 yellow : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound3.mp3"),
 red : new Audio("https://s3.amazonaws.com/freecodecamp/simonSound2.mp3")
};

game.computerMoves = {green, yellow, yellow, blue, red, red};

const colorFlashPeriod = 1000; // in ms

function showMoves() {
 let moveCounter = 0;
 const timeoutCount = game.computerMoves.length * 2;
 (function nextColor() {
   //this variable was finished looping before the backgroundColor finished flashing and it incremented faster than 1 second per loop. The flashing was shown at the correct times though, but I can't use this to set keys to add sounds
    let move = game.computerMoves[moveCounter >> 1];
    let c = game.computerMoves[moveCounter]
    console.log(c.id);
    move.style.backgroundColor = colors[(moveCounter++) & 1].get(move);
    if (moveCounter < timeoutCount) { setTimeout(nextColor, colorFlashPeriod) }
 })();
}

I also rewrote the showMoves function to flash lights into a working version here

function showMoves() {
  let i = 0;

const start = setInterval(function() {
  if (i >= game.computerMoves.length) {
      clearInterval(start);
      return;
  }

  const move = game.computerMoves[i];
  setLight(move, true);
  setTimeout(setLight.bind(null, move, false), 1000); //Using bind to preset arguments
  
  i++;
 }, 2000);
}

function setLight(color, isOn) {
  if(isOn){
sounds[color.id].play();
 }
   color.style.backgroundColor = isOn ? colors[0].get(color) : colors[1].get(color);
}

This version of is working how I want it to and playing the sounds at the right flashing times, but I’m not sure if its better designed than the showMoves function above it that I can’t figure out how to get the sound to work on. I would appreciate any help with this.

#6

I think I’ll just stick with my remake of the showFunction since I can figure out how to make the first one work and why it was having that problem. It’s probably a worse design too since I can’t figure it out.