Flex 1114 The public attribute can only be used inside a package.

ActionScript Error #1114: The public attribute can only be used inside a package.

Description:
This ActionScript Error justs means that you have used the access control modifier ‘public’ in the wrong spot. There are four access control modifiers – public, private, internal, and protected. Each of these specify how the method or variable is accessed. Each access control modifier has it’s own error but they all mean the same thing. Access control modifiers need to be used in the right place. The ‘internal’ and ‘public’ can only be used inside a ‘package’ and ‘private’ and ‘protected’ can only be used on classes.

Fix:
Make sure to only use the ‘public’ access control modifier to define a method or variable within a package and not inside the class itself nor within a method(function).

Bad Code:

package{
 
  public class MySize {
 
     public function Connection():void{
 
        public var bgColor:uint = 0xFFCC00;
 
        trace(bgColor);
 
     }
 
  }
 
}

Good Code:

package{
 
  public class MySize {
 
     public var bgColor:uint = 0xFFCC00;
 
     public function Connection():void{
 
        trace(bgColor);
 
     }
 
  }
 
}

OR 

package{
 
  public class MySize {
 
     public function Connection():void{
 
        var bgColor:uint = 0xFFCC00;
 
        trace(bgColor);
 
     }
 
  }
 
}