I’ve been wondering why items in my library disappear occasionally – including the library buttons and column headers! I’ve narrowed the problem down to a CS4 bug. Steps to reproduce bug: 1.Create a MovieClip 2. Select ‘Component Definition’ 3. Add…
Yearly Archives: 2008
jerky raster animations
It has always bothered me that animations of raster images are always jerky when they get to the point of animating less than a pixel per frame. Flash assumes that rasters should only live on the exact pixel. This can…
Stage dimension limitation – 214×137
I was trying to work out why the Flash Player Settings window was not appearing when i attached a webcam to a Video object, when i discovered that my stage was too small. Although i can’t find documentation for this…
stage.mouseLeave and wmode=transparent
noted a strange incompatibility today – the stage.mouseLeave event doesn’t get triggered when you hold a mouse button down, and drag off stage on a flash object which has wmode set to transparent. in fact doing so takes the focus…
dynamic text fields part II
just got back from a six week holiday, so was wondering if i’d lost my mind while i was away… steps to recreate weird problem: 1. set up two dynamic text boxes on the stage – one bold and one…
Frusting Flex problems solved #4 – preventing a DataGrid column from resizing
What a laborious problem this was! I had set up a DataGrid that resized with the browser, and the user could also resize the column widths. However one column contained a button, and needed to not be resizable by the…
dynamic text field part I – letter spacing
Just discovered that flash resets the author-time letter spacing of a dynamic textfield when the textfield’s text is set in ActionScript. To maintain the authortime letter spacing settings of the textfield, you need to record the textfield’s textformat, set the…
Frustrating Flex problems solved #3 – DataGrid scrolling error
I’m currently working on a project that requires me to be using Flex 2 rather than Flex 3(I’m using an older version of Zinc, and avoiding upgrading if possible as we’ll probably be moving to AIR after this project). But…
ObjectCollection
i’d set up a repeater to display data returned from a ColdFusion call – which would either be a Y or N. I wanted to adjust how this appears to YES or NO, and thought a straightforward way of doing…
An Internal Build Error has occurred…
public var interactionType:String=INTERACT_DRAG=INTERACT_FORM; This line of code just wasted 4 hours of my life. Flex didn’t notice that there was a problem, and it was only in building that a problem arose with the line ‘Classes must not be nested.’…
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