Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-24 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
:


I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)


Can you share test case?

Neh


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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

Indeed, it´s a buggy flash player behavior.
When you mix TextFields with Masks and FX, all goes wrong. It has nothing
to do with MTASC.
I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)

Maybe in the next update? Or maybe we need to wait for the V9 player.


On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:42:35 -0300, Rifled Cloaca  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

wrote:

I've embedded the font, naturally.  I'm getting extremely buggy  
behavior.

Sometimes the textfield will appear partially... only the right half of
the
textfield, but most of the time, not at all.

At one point, I found that removing the dropshadow filter from the
textfield, and then adding it back later programmatically helped the
problem.  But, now that I've added the alpha mask, it doesn't behave
right,
and it's very slow.

The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the
combination of movies compiled with MTASC versus the Flash IDE.  The
shell
is all code, compiled in MTASC, and it loads in modules created in the
Flash
IDE.



On 5/22/06, Vivek lakhanpal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Try embedding font for the textfield.

Thanks,
Vivek

On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 All,

 I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
 MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a
later
 time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
 empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the
text
 magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-23 Thread Rifled Cloaca

I've embedded the font, naturally.  I'm getting extremely buggy behavior.
Sometimes the textfield will appear partially... only the right half of the
textfield, but most of the time, not at all.

At one point, I found that removing the dropshadow filter from the
textfield, and then adding it back later programmatically helped the
problem.  But, now that I've added the alpha mask, it doesn't behave right,
and it's very slow.

The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the
combination of movies compiled with MTASC versus the Flash IDE.  The shell
is all code, compiled in MTASC, and it loads in modules created in the Flash
IDE.



On 5/22/06, Vivek lakhanpal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Try embedding font for the textfield.

Thanks,
Vivek

On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 All,

 I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
 MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a later
 time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
 empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the text
 magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-23 Thread Marcelo Volmaro

Indeed, it´s a buggy flash player behavior.
When you mix TextFields with Masks and FX, all goes wrong. It has nothing  
to do with MTASC.

I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)

Maybe in the next update? Or maybe we need to wait for the V9 player.


On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:42:35 -0300, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:



I've embedded the font, naturally.  I'm getting extremely buggy behavior.
Sometimes the textfield will appear partially... only the right half of  
the

textfield, but most of the time, not at all.

At one point, I found that removing the dropshadow filter from the
textfield, and then adding it back later programmatically helped the
problem.  But, now that I've added the alpha mask, it doesn't behave  
right,

and it's very slow.

The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the
combination of movies compiled with MTASC versus the Flash IDE.  The  
shell
is all code, compiled in MTASC, and it loads in modules created in the  
Flash

IDE.



On 5/22/06, Vivek lakhanpal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Try embedding font for the textfield.

Thanks,
Vivek

On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 All,

 I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
 MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a  
later

 time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
 empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the  
text

 magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-23 Thread Rifled Cloaca

Yeah, I was sure MTASC was fine... I was more thinking it was the
combination of the two.  Thanks for the info.  The entire system I am
building is based on Masking text (a signage system), so this is a real
problem.  I guess i'll have to wait on using filters.

Thanks again,
-g


On 5/23/06, Marcelo Volmaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Indeed, it´s a buggy flash player behavior.
When you mix TextFields with Masks and FX, all goes wrong. It has nothing
to do with MTASC.
I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)

Maybe in the next update? Or maybe we need to wait for the V9 player.


On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:42:35 -0300, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I've embedded the font, naturally.  I'm getting extremely buggy
behavior.
 Sometimes the textfield will appear partially... only the right half of
 the
 textfield, but most of the time, not at all.

 At one point, I found that removing the dropshadow filter from the
 textfield, and then adding it back later programmatically helped the
 problem.  But, now that I've added the alpha mask, it doesn't behave
 right,
 and it's very slow.

 The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the
 combination of movies compiled with MTASC versus the Flash IDE.  The
 shell
 is all code, compiled in MTASC, and it loads in modules created in the
 Flash
 IDE.



 On 5/22/06, Vivek lakhanpal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try embedding font for the textfield.

 Thanks,
 Vivek

 On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  All,
 
  I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
  MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a
 later
  time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
  empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the
 text
  magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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RE: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-23 Thread Nehal
I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)

Can you share test case?

Neh


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcelo
Volmaro
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:31 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

Indeed, it´s a buggy flash player behavior.
When you mix TextFields with Masks and FX, all goes wrong. It has nothing  
to do with MTASC.
I already reported that to MM (with very simple and small test cases)

Maybe in the next update? Or maybe we need to wait for the V9 player.


On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:42:35 -0300, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:

 I've embedded the font, naturally.  I'm getting extremely buggy behavior.
 Sometimes the textfield will appear partially... only the right half of  
 the
 textfield, but most of the time, not at all.

 At one point, I found that removing the dropshadow filter from the
 textfield, and then adding it back later programmatically helped the
 problem.  But, now that I've added the alpha mask, it doesn't behave  
 right,
 and it's very slow.

 The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the
 combination of movies compiled with MTASC versus the Flash IDE.  The  
 shell
 is all code, compiled in MTASC, and it loads in modules created in the  
 Flash
 IDE.



 On 5/22/06, Vivek lakhanpal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try embedding font for the textfield.

 Thanks,
 Vivek

 On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  All,
 
  I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
  MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a  
 later
  time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
  empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the  
 text
  magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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[Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-22 Thread Rifled Cloaca

All,

I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a later
time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the text
magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Alpha Masking Weirdness

2006-05-22 Thread Vivek lakhanpal

Try embedding font for the textfield.

Thanks,
Vivek

On 5/23/06, Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


All,

I'm masking a MovieClip with an alpha mask using cacheAsBitmap.  The
MovieClip has a dynamic text field inside it that I populate at a later
time.  When I play the movie, the area where the textfield is remains
empty.  If I drag the corner of the player to resize the movie, the text
magically appears.  Anyone run into this sort of weird behavior?
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