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f your setmask(mask) fails make sure the movieclip you are masking is not too long or the set masking will fail, even if you set cacheAsBitmap = true.
Amazon has decided to sell MP3 audio files on their site. Although this might not sound impressive at first since there are a lot of companies who are selling Mp3s already. The reallity is that this is the first well established company that will try to compete face to face with Apple (Itunes).
I was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy update. So we fired flash and the above is the visual and the code below...
or a while I was not able to fire different events and the reason why is because I was compiling to flash player 9 instead of 8. So if there are certain events that are not firing one thing that you can check is the export settings.
hen you need a visible movieclip instead of creating a movieclip on stage and cleaning it up create a moviclip directly on the Library -New Graphic-.
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When Dealing with Movieclips and you need to access the refence as string do [instanceName].toString() rather than instanceName.toString()
As simple as creating a method in your class or a function on your code to delete unnecessary variables or set them to null for garbage collection.
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This blog is mostly about my findings on the web, my contribution to noobs to flash that might be able to learn something from the site. If you dont consider yourself a noob and you still were able to learn or discover something new on this blog, even better.