On Oct 20, 2007, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Password mailing reminder seems to be broken as well, I put in two
requests so that I could change to digest, and have received
neither one.
Well, in general it seems like my posts are taking about a day to
show up. So maybe
On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:35 PM, keith wrote:
Is there a reason you can't access the Sprite with the variable you
first created?
cont.visible=false;
I think the OP was using the code as an example, but that creation
and modification would take place at two different times in actual
On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Alistair Colling wrote:
var cont:Sprite = new Sprite();
this.addChild(cont);
var cont1:Sprite = new Sprite();
cont.addChild(cont1);
var child1:Sprite = new H1();
var target =cont.getChildByName(cont1);
var targ2 = target.getChildByName(child1);
targ2._visible
On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote:
Please come and join us on Flash_Tiger--but please, please don't leave
Flashcoders. This is such a great list, and we truly don't want to
see it
diminished in any way. Again, our aim is to expand the Flash list
environment and complement
On Sep 7, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote:
I never felt out of place, and,
once I felt I had a good enough handle on Flash's way of doing
things, I
signed up for Flashcoders.
Liar. ;-)
You went the other way. We kicked you up to FlashCoders.
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On Aug 21, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
Lesson 2 How do you set/change a cats name? How do you create 2
cats with different names? Now they know about setters and getters
and methods with parameters.
Now you are *really* talking about encapsulation...
since everyone knows that
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Andy Herrman wrote:
I haven't been
able to find any documentation about how they're detecting it. Anyone
played around with this yet? Are there any known methods to prevent
that toolbar from appearing?
This is hideously bad news. Adobe should fire up the legal
On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Jer Brand wrote:
Uploaded a sample to http://aut0poietic.us/index.html.
I should mention that this is happening in IE and FF. Test computer
spec is
a AMD 64 X2 3400+ / 2G Ram.
Has anyone else seen this?
Take heart - on my Mac G5x4 it is only using about 15%.
On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Karina Steffens wrote:
It's really easy to fix - have a look at this article on my blog:
http://blog.neo-archaic.net/2006/08/02/nocache-for-javascript-and-
flash.htm
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, and Muzak just mentioned also,
calling that technique
On Aug 6, 2007, at 2:50 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote:
http://foo.domain.com/images/imageContainer.swf?e=; + getDate()
all images could be in 1 swf and called out.
Of course, that doesn't really prevent caching as much as it prevents
the broswer from handing Flash a cached copy the next time
On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:56 AM, matt stuehler wrote:
Two questions -
1. The client has asked about the feasibility of developing this in
Flex instead of Flash. Since I'm only beginning to learn Flex, I can't
really answer this. But my simplistic understanding is that, at a high
level, Flex is a
On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:37 PM, John Hattan wrote:
FWIW, here's the page for my SQLite glue-DLL for Zinc. The Mac
version works with mProjector, which is what I'm using for the Mac
games (Zinc for Mac doesn't do universal binaries).
Oh cool, I lost touch with mProjector... I hadn't realized
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Zárate wrote:
If you need to creating PDFs from Flash itself, check out Alive PDF:
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=104
Personally, I was more interested in display of PDF content in a
manner which is consistent with the rest of my applications. For
this,
On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
I understand traversing through XML is more intuitive in AS3 than AS2.
I'm wondering if CS3 lets you traverse through XML in AS3 style, but
still using AS2 for the project.
Flash CS3 does do this (support E4X), however you have to set
On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:21 PM, John Dowdell wrote:
If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an
installed Adobe Reader to display a PDF,
This, in itself, let all the air out of AIR for me.
When I saw how AIR could do such a great job of fusing SWF and HTML,
I guess I
On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Weldon MacDonald wrote:
Flash doesn't have access to the local file system. If teh pictures
were on
a server you could do something with a PHP script to get the file
names, but
on the client, not. Unless you want to get into the new Adobe Air
API, but
that's a
On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:04 PM, August Gresens wrote:
Does anyone know how one would accomplish the same thing with Flex?
Can this
be done from the Flex IDE or is there a special tool?
Zinc can create executables from Flex swfs. Not sure what other tools
do.
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On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
Also, a sizeable chunk of the people on Flexcoders are not people who
came over from Flash, they're people who have no Flash experience,
like
Java, PHP, and Python programmers, so there are a lot of novice
questions on topics regarding
On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
What version of the Flash player is the Director Xtra built on?
There is an updated version available for download which supports
Flash 8. Out of the package it comes with Flash 7 support.
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On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:24 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote:
My question, and thanks for giving me a code example to work from,
is: Can I type the eventTarget as something more specific than
*? Even if eventTarget is a custom class that extends Movieclip
or Sprite?
Couldn't you import the
On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Robert Taylor wrote:
Hey gang, just thought I would let everyone know I built up a
couple of
classes that allow you to easily communicate between the ActionScript
Virtual Machines (AVMs). You can dispatch events, talk to functions
and
properties synchronously
On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Muzak wrote:
It is the place to be in regards to Flex.
There's Adobe people there monitoring the list and answering
questions etc..
I've been on yahoo lists for years and have helped moderating a few
in the past and never had any issues with yahoogroups.
On Nov 6, 2006, at 5:19 PM, slangeberg wrote:
It's threaded, when you use gmail as your client!
Yes, thanks.
Can't really change my email client over one list. :-/
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On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Randy Troppmann wrote:
You don't need to change your email. I use my gmail account solely for
lists like this. I never worry about deleting anything. It works
great.
OK, good point guys. The google interface is certainly better than
using the yahoo forum.
On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
I'm sorry.
My Rules in outlook moved the post into my flexcoders folder and i
thought
the post was sent to the Flexcoders mailing list.
Go Flexcoders :)
No problem Bjorn. Actually I was serious. I found the FlexCoders list
via
Recommendations? URL for signup?
TIA.
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On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Michael Bedar wrote:
You can download the beta now.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flexbuilder2/
Wa-hoo!!
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On Oct 25, 2006, at 2:41 PM, grimmwerks wrote:
Huh - just tried on a Quad. I'll try on a macbook...
The full version installed and runs without a hitch on my PPC quad.
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On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
ASDT is dead... :/ I would rather buy FDT or search for
alternatives if I
were on a mac of linux.. as I'm on windows, there's FlashDevelop,
of course!
As far as I can tell, there really is only FDT for Mac users.
Everything
On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:21 AM, Mike Mountain wrote:
The problem I found with Director is you have to go out and buy a
bunch
of Xtras to really achieve anything notable.
Have you considered ScreenweaverHX?
Interesting. I hadn't seen that. Is anyone using this?
http://haxe.org/swhx
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On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
If you're a Mac user you should really check out TextMate. It's by
and large the best coding tool out there and until FlashDevelop
came out, it was better than any windows text editor. I don't know
any coders on the mac who are
On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Victor Gaudioso wrote:
Hey all, I had to do a wipe because my PC crahsed and burned.
About a month ago I bought Gproject. I have no idea how to get it
again without paying. Any suggestions.
Contact support at Grant Skinner's site, I'm sure they'll set you
On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Kjel Anderson wrote:
I don't know if anyone else is using JEdit to do ActionScript, but
it has some nice features. I have been using it for about a year to
develop application with MTASC. It is very simple to set up.
The (good) options for OSX are
On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
If you disagree, what do you think is
the opposite of now? It certainly isn't after because after is
the opposite of before.
!now
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On Oct 8, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote:
Yes, that would work, but is there a way to do it automatically and
elegantly?
Remember to always do it until it becomes second nature? ;-)
This is the way I always do it at least. I don't know of any other
reliable way.
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On Jul 28, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Dave Watts wrote:
This is not the appropriate place to ask this question. I don't
know where
the appropriate place would be, but I do know it's not here.
However, Steven's was fair. (and pretty funny.)
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On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
However, Steven's was fair. (and pretty funny.)
It would not have been fair if he hadn't specified the need for
lasers, of course. Such a fine line... ;-)
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On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Juan Carlos Anorga wrote:
I use TextMate http://www.macromates.com/
AFAIK, TextMate isn't really kept up-to-date with AS syntax though.
Of course, if you don't care about colorization or autocomplete it
probably doesn't matter.
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On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Nick Weekes wrote:
More info in case anyone not aware of this url:
http://www.flex.org/
Gee. Flex 2 seems to be missing all that... you know... Mac stuff.
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On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:03 PM, coroner wrote:
no, no joke at all... i downloaded this and installed it in the
afternoon... it' sflash 9 public alpha ... flash 9, as 3
I guess Mac users will mostly use AS3 in Flash 9. It doesn't appear
we're getting Flex Builder 2.
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On May 24, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Dan Thatcher wrote:
I have long thought that if the purpose of the RIA movement is to
create
desktop like apps that run in your browser...then the platform used
to build
those apps would certainly be powerful enough to create e-learning.
If Flash can be used
On May 4, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
Also, I am doing this in AS3, not AS2.
You wouldn't happen to be doing this in AS3 on a Mac, would you
Mike? ;-)
(Still waiting for a flex beta for Mac...)
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On May 4, 2006, at 4:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Developing an online chat system and am considering using either
flashcom or Moock's Unity server.
Look at ElectroServer as well.
Basically, FCS is a huge media server, and quite expensive. For chat
systems, it is not needed.
On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote:
Anyone here able to confirm this? Thanks.
Yes. FP6+
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On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:21 AM, Mike Mountain wrote:
Well we're getting very despondent now. We really want to use flash on
our Win CE device - but it would seem the suits in charge of licensing
are far too busy to get in touch with us. We've been in contact with
Adobe UK, who said they'd 'ping'
On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Arthur Debert wrote:
AFAICT most browsers won't cache an url with a query string. if this
gets nasty write a script (server side or javascript on the client)
that appends a random query string at the end.
Including -
META HTTP-EQUIV=PRAGMA CONTENT=NO-CACHE
In
On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Flapflap wrote:
Maybe look at mProjector
mProjector is nice, but it doesn't offer any direct database support
on either platform, if that is important to the project.
Lieven, you haven't really indicated why Flash itself is key to the
project. What
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Gene Jannece wrote:
I work for a company that is greatly effected by the New Zinc issue
that popped up.
I was wondering if anybody had found a quick fix or if it's really
totally fatal.
The Zinc guys never fail to find clever new functionalities. I know
I've
On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Samuel Santos wrote:
2D First Person Shooter
I'm not sure such a thing is possible.
FirstPerson != 2D
FirstPerson == 3D
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On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:58 AM, elibol wrote:
Our team has been aware of this situation. It's big trouble if it's
to be
sold to the highest bidder; ignorantly speaking, Microsoft should
appear to
outstand the competition in financial strength.
Microsoft would probably find it cheaper to
On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:38 PM, matthibcn wrote:
what you do oversea...lol...that is definatly your problem...i just
dont care
Thanks. We appreciate the sympathetic attitude among developers. At
least do us a favor, while laughing. Show prior art.
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On Feb 26, 2006, at 3:26 AM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote:
I've done all suggestions from Adobe but still no go. :(
How about contacting Adobe tech support directly? They usually take
After Effects failures pretty seriously in my experience.
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On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote:
The next morning it's either Christmas bonanzo or a lump
of coal :o
Exactly. Last week, my compression system worked for 12 hours to
compress 8 minutes of video on a quad G5 with 4 gigs of Ram. When it
was finished, I found Squeeze
On Feb 26, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote:
Have you tried reinstalling it?
Of course I have. 3 times, clean install.
No plugins installed yet, right? Older plugins can goof it up.
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On Feb 25, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Alfonso Florio wrote:
Is this because the trial contains a beta or also the paid version
has this compression times?
I love the squeeze interface, but if vp6 encoding is so slow this
tool is pretty useless.
I will have to use the on2 flix pro, the interface
Hey all,
Sorenson squeeze is making my life hell with the VP6 Pro plugin. I am
using it (on OSX) mostly for the capability to insert cue points (and
the compression, of course), but squeeze just sucks at the cuepoints
part.
While the pro plugin is only good for Squeeze, I'd buy another
On Feb 22, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote:
What is the advantage(s) and disadvantage(s) of design patterns?
I've been studying MVC and Singleton patterns but so far I'm not sure
how those can make my software better.
They don't necessarily make your software any better.
They
On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:07 AM, Manuel Saint-Victor wrote:
Aangie- I'm a noob also and I 've been trying to figure out the
role of
design pattterns.
Not too long ago, I couldn't see it either. But as you go along with
a few advanced projects, you begin to realize where they would be
On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:37 PM, David Rorex wrote:
It's possible the activeX (OCX?) plugin is slightly slower than the
standalone/IDE player.
I thought Zinc uses the netscape plugin, but maybe that is only on
the Mac.
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On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Chris Allen wrote:
We would like to officially announce Red5 Flash Server version 0.3.
Bravo!
Looks awesome.
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On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Gerry Creighton wrote:
If I hit reply then delete the subject and retype the subject line
and delete the body of the message it's going to
the list as a new message. Why would it matter if I create a new
message or do it the way
that I did?
Because many
Can I get the file name of an swf which is loaded?
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Yehia Shouman wrote:
inside it
this._url
That'll work. Thanks. My mind blanked out on that one since all the
files are local I was thinking file rather than url.
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On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Newmediasoup - engaging multimedia wrote:
Would this work?
http://buraks.com/captionate/
Thanks for the link. It appears that tool accepts pre-encoded FLVs
and injects metadata and cue points. Windows-only is a bit of a pain
for our production workflow since
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:06 PM, Newmediasoup - engaging multimedia wrote:
The only downside is if you don't own Sorenson squeeze, it's gonna
cost ya
about $450 for the compression suite, and then you'll have to pay
about $150
to get the On2VP6 Pro plugin.
Hope this helps... Or am I missing
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:48 AM, John Giotta wrote:
Just as a note. I heard from a co-worker yesterday that Sorenson
Squeeze's price jumped $100 USD
Still kinda buggy for that money. And the interface... I'd much
rather have a straightforward HIG compliant kind of thing. Like a
real
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
Yeah, the sudden shut downs has frustrated me enough times that I just
plain stopped using it, even though it's a better editor than SciTe
Flash.
Same. Sepy will not run on my Macs. Basically crashes on launch.
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On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Helmut Granda wrote:
Las week I made a component similar to the radio button component.
While I
was working on this I requested help understanding the way the
component
works. Eric (ericCD) suggested making a manager class:
In a general sense, the concept is
On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
Has anyone come across an essential use for a Dynamic Class while
developing
an RIA, besides laziness.
Not if you go and rule out the number one reason I've done it just
like that. ;-)
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On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Helmut Granda wrote:
For example if I have a property (array) inside a class it must be
public so other intances of the object I create can access that
property and they can write to it? And if that is true, how would I
avoid having the property re-assigned
On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Ryan Luce wrote:
For some reason when i load cdata text in using xpath like this
thexml.selectNodes(//node/subnode/text()) where there is a br it
breaks
the line, but leaves the br in the text... anyone know why this is
happening? Also my textfield will not
On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Helmut Granda wrote:
Where I get confused is when I have to pass the reference from the
button to the manager function. All the methods come from the same
class? for a minute I thought I needed 2 classes (1 to initiate the
button, 2 to handle the references of
On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Dennis - I Sioux wrote:
One of the oldest questions in the book.. : can i catch the
keypresses even when focus is set on another program and then back
to the browser (but not the flash movie)?
I would certainly hope not. That would make Flash the absolute
On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Charles Parcell wrote:
Is there some magic voodoo mantra that I did not read about?? Is there
something that breaks them? Are others having issues with it?
Well, it only shows in test movie, you know that right?
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On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Robert Chyko wrote:
I don't use the List component that much, but I'd imagine it is the
same
functionality as the DataGrid... Each row is an object with a bunch of
properties, but only the properties that there are columns for get
displayed.
In fact, you can
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Søren Christensen wrote:
IE is present on both panther(os 10.3.x) and tiger (os 10.4.x) -
look in the
'applications' folder.
Sounds like maybe you've done an OS upgrade which left IE in place.
AFAIK, IE does not ship with those OS's. I haven't had IE for
On Jan 7, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Tom Lee wrote:
Interesting idea... I don't have a method written, but the first
thing I
would do is try blurring the image until it is one uniform color
(perhaps
with a Transform Matrix), and then get the RGB of that color.
Well, that would get you the general
On Jan 3, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Henry @ Tonic wrote:
I should add, that if you *really* want to stick with text files,
you could replace special characters with URLEncoded entities
(like, %26 for ampersand) and it should work. But I wouldn't
recommend it ;)
How do you then deal with
On Dec 28, 2005, at 1:48 AM, Tamer Qarrain wrote:
I tried loading them in Director it worked just fine, but
since I started developing the Navigation in Flash 8, when
importing swf
(v8) into director 2004 it wont work, so I had to publish my flash
work in
version 7, so loosing some nice
On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
Head on over to
http://labs.macromedia.com/ and play around, you might change your
mind.
Wake me when there is an OSX alpha. ;-)
Flex looks great, but not great enough to switch development platforms.
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I'd like to do some basic cache busting, like this:
//
if(System.capabilities.playerType == External){
myXML.load(tabs.xm);
} else {
myXML.load(tabs.xml?cachebuster= + getTimer());
}
Can I use something like this with loadMovie, as well as getURL, and
XML.load?
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On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Ryan Potter wrote:
Take a look at this.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=827EA
That's a keeper. Thanks for the link.
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On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote:
Ok, I have 4 lines which tween (shape) one after the other to make
rectangles, I was wondering how to load 1 frame as the percentage goes
up by one and so on. Does anyone know howto do this, help is much
appreciated!
Take a look at the
On Dec 11, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote:
No, this is only useful for Picture files,
No, it is also useful for SWF files.
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On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Robin Burrer wrote:
I'm sure you can this yourself - that's not rocket science :-) Check
out
the string class - the rest is just a bit of fiddling around.
Of course, you'll thank yourself for using a monospaced font, otherwise
you'll probably end up watching
On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Michael Bedar wrote:
If the background color is the same under all of the text, you could
easily use a little css to tag the areas you want hidden,
by making them that color, even with a crazy font.
CSS. Good point.
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On Dec 7, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Sascha Balkau wrote:
I'm not very familiar with AS3 yet but is there no duplicateMovieClip
anymore? At least I couldn't find anything about it on the AS3
reference
(http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/index.html). Or
does some of these methods
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