Experiment works locally but does not recognize custom (existing) function on Pavlovia

Online experiments
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URL of experiment: Pavlovia

Description of the problem: This experiment was made in builder (v2021.v.1.14) with a custom function. The experiment works perfectly locally, but in Pavlovia it throws an error when the custom function is evoked. The error says that the function is not defined, but I can see that it is defined in line 723 of the compiled experiment.

Thanks in advance for the advice!

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What is the custom function?

Have you defined it twice?

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The custom function is makeText(). In the latest version, I defined it a second time because the previous error was an undefined function, and I thought the code was trying to use it before it was defined. In both cases, the code works locally but not on Pavlovia.

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If you use the auto translate, you should define it in Before Experiment

In Begin Experiment it should be defined using

makeText = function(x) {


}
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Thanks for the suggestion. I did this, and now I am getting an error that win is not defined. I would greatly appreciate any additional advice!
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Changing the definition of the function to

function makeText(clickN) {
    return new visual.TextStim({win: psychoJS.window, text: clickN, pos: getLoc, depth: (- 4.0), height: 0.03});
}

and replacing append with push in one line in your ‘every frame’ code, making it

allText.push(makeText(clickN))

makes it work (for me).

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That did the trick! Thanks, @ajus!