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Embedding a font in a component

it took me quite a while and a variety of sources to work out how to set an embedded font for use in a comboBox component in AS3, so i thought i would record the solution for others(and myself in

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ENTER_FRAME problem

i’ve got an interesting conundrum for you all. According to Flash help, ENTER_FRAME “…does not go through a ‘capture phase’ and is dispatched directly to the target, whether the target is on the display list or not.” and it is

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labels that are numbers

today i was given a movieClip of a candle slowly burning down. it had 15 states represented by numbered frame labels, and i wanted to go to the appropriate label based on the number of days the candle had been

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double click problems

Let’s say we want to set up a standard doubleClick interaction on a movie-clip(draw a square inside this clip) with instance name square: square.doubleClickEnabled=true; square.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK,double); function double(event:MouseEvent):void { trace(“doubleclick”); } Compile, it should work fine – “doubleclick” should trace when

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Weird sizing problem

After a lot of pulling my hair out trying to work out why my custom scrollbars weren’t resizing correctly, thinking there must be a problem with my code, i’ve discovered that it’s actually a strange problem with flash resizing movieclips

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line width

i was creating a dashed line function which basically drew a short line, then moved on a few pixels. i was trying to display this line with one pixel width. what i discovered was that if the dash was three

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