I dunno, man, I don't remember what that returned in AS2 (it's been a couple
years since I used it), but I would seriously get annoyed if AS3 returned a
height based on a non-existent piece of content. Right now, it sniffs out
the bounds of the displayobject then returns the height of that rectangle.
seems like the right behavior to me, and I can think of many projects that
I've worked on, certainly, where the other implementation would be
maddening.
I do still find it fascinating that folks keep railing about AS3 vs. AS2,
esp. when we're now 2 revs of the IDE out of AS2...that's a value neutral
statement, by the way, people like what they like.
--Matt
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Joel Stransky <stranskydes...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks Matt,
> I understand I can work out the height manually but I'm trying to write a
> function into the main stage that can read the height of any child swf. The
> names and locations may vary so its not that attractive of a solution.
> There has to be some way of reading the bounds. Like in as2, if you create
> an empty movieclip, then attach another 20x20 clip to it at a y of 10, that
> new movieclips height comes back as 30. I'll be seriously pissed to find
> out
> adobe dropped yet another useful feature with as3.
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Matt Gitchell <m...@moonbootmedia.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It measures the height of the actual content.
> > You'd have to have something onstage at (0,0) for it to start measuring
> > there.
> >
> > If you need it, write something that retrieves the Y value of the item
> plus
> > the item's height, where item is the DisplayObject in the loaded SWF.
> >
> > var functionalHeight:Number = item.y + item.height;
> >
> > --Matt
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Joel Stransky <j...@stranskydesign.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > *height not right*
> > > ------------------------------
> > > Create two .fla's called SizeParent.fla and SizeChild.fla.
> > > In SizeChild draw a square of 20x20 and set it's y to 10.
> > >
> > > Publish SizeChild.swf and place this code on frame 1 in SizeParent
> > > Code:
> > >
> > > import flash.display.*;
> > > import flash.events.*;
> > > import flash.net.URLRequest;
> > > var l:Loader = new Loader();
> > > l.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
> > > l.load(new URLRequest("SizeChild.swf"));
> > >
> > > function onComplete(e:Event):void{
> > > addChild(l);
> > > trace(l.content.height);
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Shouldn't height be 30? I keep getting 20.
> > >
> > > What gives?
> > >
> > >
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