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Guys, if you attach the UI Scrollbar component with Dynamic textbox in Flash where the text will be populated from XML or a Text file, the scrollbar won’t work and resize automatically.

When I was working on one of my flash component where the data was being populated from XML, I assumed that the scrollbar will automatically adjust according to the amount of the data but nothing really happened.

So to make the scrollbar work after you have populated your dynamic textbox with the content you can type the following action to make the UIScrollbar work -

mc_scroll.maxScrollPosition = details.textHeight;

“mc_scroll” is the instance name of my scrollbar attached with the dynamic textbox & “details” is the name of my dynamic text box.

import flash.media.Video;
import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.net.NetStream;

Create a connection object

var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);

Create a NetStream object and pass the NetConnection object

var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
stream_ns.client = new Object();

One connection object can be used for more than one video stream.

myVideo.attachNetStream(stream_ns);
stream_ns.play(“video.flv”);

myVideo is the name of my video object placed on the stage & video.flv is the video file which needs to be played. Now if you want to play another video you have to create a new NetStream object for each video otherwise it will not work. I spent 4 hours just to figure this out & kept trying different techniques to make my 4 different videos work with the same NetStream object. But unfortunately it is not possible.

So guys the trick is to create different NetStream object for each video & have fun.

Happy Streaming!!!

I encountered a strange problem in Flash when I tried masking a dynamic text box and it didn’t work. After doing lots of research on the internet I found out that if you mask a dynamic text box the text won’t appear.

So to save time for the people trying to mask the dynamic text box here is the tip, click your text box in the properties panel click the Embed button and embed the fonts and your text will start appearing again.

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Hope you like it!

I could not post any entries in the last few months because of my busy schedule & finally I got a chance to post this problem with AS3.0 while parsing XML.

While parsing XML I came through this error -

ReferenceError: Error #1065

which is kind of vague error, I could not find anything anything related to my code even after searching for hours. Finally I decided to jump into my XML & keep only few entries to test & it worked.

After sweating for hours I found the error in the XML because one of the node was missing. So guys if you are getting this error while parsing XML, jump into the XML and check your structure.

While working on a website for one of my client, I came across a strange problem with Combobox component.

If you try to put a Combobox in a flash & then try to load that .swf file in another flash using loadClip function of MovieClipLoader it doesn’t work. You can’t even click it to see the items.

After googling for sometime I found that its a bug in Flash and the work around is if you simply drag a Combobox component in your parent Flash & then just delete it from the stage leaving it in the library, it works perfectly fine.

And you can click and select any item from the Combobox embedded in the child Flash, loaded in the parent movie.

After the Tween & TransitionManager Class, to make life more easier I have found MC Tween extension which can be used to tween objects such as movieclip/sound/textfield.

You just need to #include “mc_tween2.as” and use one simple command to create a new tweening. It doesn’t use the MovieClip’s own onEnterFrame event & It is based on time, not on frames.

Let’s suppose you want to move something using an animation, to provide a smoother experience for the user. Using MC Tween, you could do:
myMovieclip.tween(“_x”, 100);

To download the extension or read the full documentation with examples please go to: http://hosted.zeh.com.br/mctween/