Don't U just hate flash sometimes?

[FormerSwinger]

Like when youre trying to do something simple, say modify the text of a text label from script, and it just wont work no matter what you try.

I think I better go home before I break my keyboard.....;)

[CyanBlue]

Uh... Nope... That never happened to me... and I don't agree with you on that hate issue, but I do agree with you that you should get some break... ;)

[outlando]

I know exactly what you mean.
But normally the solution is something amazingly (and irritatingly) simple.

Perhaps you've missed a semi-colon somewhere, or put in a hyphen instead of an underscore by mistake.

It's obviously so minor that Flash doesn't pick it up as a syntax error. Take a break, you'll find it in seconds when you return to your screen :)

[newblack]

i've never made a mistake, though i can imagine it would be quite frustrating. it's about recognizing the tension growing and stepping away before it's manifested itself as something far worse than it actually is when you're level-headed.

it's this mindset that keeps europeans thin; when they get hungry they go have a cigarette.

[Cota]

I dont hate flash, I hate removeMovieClip()

[Flash Gordon]

LoL.....

[CyanBlue]

it's this mindset that keeps europeans thin; when they get hungry they go have a cigarette.
Hm... I cannot agree with you on this... I have been smoking for more than a decade and I am still fat... Is it because I am not a european??? If that is the case, I'll have to call the cigarette companies the racists... :(

[Cota]

damn racist cigarettes!

[outlando]

Hm... I cannot agree with you on this... I have been smoking for more than a decade

Huh. Never pictured you as a smoker.

I guess over here we all think you Americans are all new-age anti-smoking etc. I heard you can only smoke in America on the second Tuesday of every month between October and January, provided it's raining and the wind is in the south-west. Or is that just California?

[Cota]

Thats just california..in NY its wednesdays between june and august.

[Assertnfailure]

I h8 phlash...

terrible app

Edit: Cota's kinda freakin me out, btw

[mooska]

I hate flsh couse of those freaking not rounded _x _xscale an staff. Have you ever tried to set to normal tfield that is _x=12.23 and lets say 100.3. _xscale ? Event you havent touch the transform tool, its 100.3.

@Cota, I hate createEmptyMovieClip ;)

Im european. When i get hungry i eat. Is something wrong with me, or can say that is all those cigarette companies fault too? :) Oh yeah, and Im not thin.Ill try to make them pay fo my gym
when ill get some time to go to it

[FormerSwinger]

I dont hate flash, I hate removeMovieClip()

Yeah me too! What's the deal whit that anyway?!?!?

removeMovieClip -> unloadMovie -> delete -> trace and surprice you still see the clip...

I agree with you. The problem with my script is probably something simple and yes the fault is me not flash.

I just wish that the world would work the way I want it to :D .

[Cota]

9 times out of 10, removeMovieClip never works....Dont worry, I'm still hunting downt he Adobe employee that invented that function...I have spent too many nights screaming at my monitor..."just remove the F***in clip.."

[FormerSwinger]

Been there. Done that ;)

[Cota]

How I'm not an alcoholic is beyond me...If it werent for senocular's FAQ, "Why does a function created in a loop always use results from the last iteration of the loop?" I would have shot my neighbor awhile ago..

[Billy T]

just found this thread after smashing my head against the desk due to a removeMovieClip() issue - wtf is going on with that method? used to work fine...now the damn thing won't go away....


anyone know a hack?

[Flash Gordon]

hehe..... depths are out of range!

just swap the depths before calling removeMovieClip() and all is well.


var m:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("m", -10000);
trace(m);

m.removeMovieClip();
trace(m);

m.swapDepths(1);
m.removeMovieClip();
trace("m = " + m);

[Cota]

removeMovieClip should die!

[Billy T]

yeah that did the trick

took me a while to realise that because I had a component in my movie (not in the mc I was removing btw) attaching at getNextHighestDepth() was putting it at a depth of a million and something...was a serious pain in the ass that wasted most of my day

the swapDepths() method works but its a bit of a hack - hopefully they fix this soon

thanks for the help

[Assertnfailure]

I h8 phlash...

terrible app

Edit: Cota's kinda freakin me out, btw

oh yeah and can't forget phlecks too

ugh horrible

[Cota]

damn those phlecks....!!!!!

[CyanBlue]

Good to see you again, Billy... :)

[Billy T]

thanks man

don't get to spend much time here anymore but its always the first place I go when flash is pissing me off ;)

nearly 18000 posts I see - that's awesome man

[CyanBlue]

Well... You've got to come here more often... Have your baby sat on your lap and start surfing the forum... :D

[Billy T]

hehe nah she prefers to yank the cable on my ipod to corrupt the disc - that's great fun for her

[CyanBlue]

Ah... I think I know what she's going to be when she gets 5... :D

[Assertnfailure]

Ah... I think I know what she's going to be when she gets 5... :D

An Apple specialist?

[Billy T]

up for adoption?


;)

[Cota]

haha...having daughters is great..I share your pain Billy

[FormerSwinger]

Sons can be pretty fun also.
My 5 month old is banging the keyboard like there's no tomorrow.
He'll be coding any day now :)

[FormerSwinger]

btw I just got the label to display the text.
I needed to add a bogus text to the label when it's instantiated.
How did I forget that? It's so logical.