[osflash] [Fwd: Re: need action script help]

[David Rorex]

On 4/26/06, Chris Bare <chris at bareflix.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I just started playing with haXe and I?m very excited about its
> possibilities. I?m still
> > using mtasc (as2) on my current project, but I?m really considering
> migrating to haXe on my
> > next project!
> >
> > Bill: Could you be more specific about the issues you are facing?
> >
> > - Marcelo Serpa.
>
> I'm one of Bill's developers so he's asked me to reply to this.
> The problems we face all seem to stem from bugs/mysterious behavior of the
> flash player. I've looked at haxe, and while I see that it's better than
> actionscript, if it uses the same API, I don't see how it will help.
>
> Because of the nature of our application, we load a lot of .swf's at
> runtime,
> and save a lot of data back to the server to store in a DB. We've had a
> lot of
> problems debugging this because of the async nature of flash's
> MovieClipLoader. would haxe change this in any way?
>

For a more detailed example, our users can create their own buttons to be
> displayed on a flash page by selecting from hundreds of fonts and button
> styles. Obviously we don't want to load all the unused options, so we load
> the
> fonts and styles as individual .swf files. MOST of the time this works
> fine,
> but sometimes the font is displayed HUGE. From what we can tell, the data
> use
> to determine the size of the font/button is simply wrong when this
> happens. If
> we just hit reload on the browser, our code will get different numbers
> from
> the same data. Is this anything that haxe would help with?
> Any other ideas how to fix this? If we add a delay after loading the font
> and
> style, that seems to correct the problem, but of course, slows everything
> down. It seems as if flash is not "ready" sometimes when we try to read
> the
> values from the loaded .swf, even though we've waited for all the events
> from
> the movieClipLoader that indicate that it is ready.


make sure you use the "onLoadInit" event and not the "onLoadComplete" event
from MovieClipLoader.

Another font related problem that I think is a bug in the flash player: If
> we
> load a font that is bold or italic and use it on an html textField, the
> blank
> vertical space caused by a <p> tag disappears. The same html, displayed
> with a
> non-bold/non-italic font displays the vertical spacing properly.
>
> We also have problems with the input caret in a text field not displaying
> or
> not accepting keyboard input.


make sure you aren't using wmode=transparent when embedding your swf, I've
had this problem before

Alert boxes sometimes cut off the last line of text when using an embeded
> font
> (we've worked around this by adding newlines to the end of messages, but
> this
> makes the spacing inconsistent)
>
> Various problems with mouse clicks being ignored if the mouse is not
> moved. I
> believe this is related to using V2 components, but none of the suggested
> work-arounds I've found have worked.


V2 components have many problems. It's probably a bit late in the game for
you to switch to another set, but it's something to consider. I hear many
people complaining about them.

I'd gladly switch to haxe if it would fix these things, but my feeling is
> that
> they are all flaws/bad design in the macromedia code. Let me know what you
> think.
> --



-David R
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