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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.’…
just finishing up an alpha version of a Flex project and discovering a couple of deployment issues that are worth getting down for future – i was getting a persistent ‘Where is the debugger or host application running?’ popup window…
Strange, strange. If you’ve embedded a Flash object inside a html page, and the Flash object loads external assets(images, SWFs, audio), the flash object locates the assets relative to the location of the html file and NOT relative to the…
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