Bugs In Fmx 2004

[xxlm]

Ok let us know if you find a bug in MX2004 (be almost sure it is before posting pls).

LET'S COMPLAIN !!!

[xxlm]

OK I think I found one.

The problem is related to this thread :
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?postid=209899#post209899

When your masking a dynamic textfield (so you use embed fonts), and your changing at runtime the format (in fact just the bold) with textformat THEN the text DISAPPEAR.

So...
This is it...

[farafiro]

heh
solved
gimmie another bug
;)

[Ruben]

I thought you didn't solve it, you just found a way to bypass the bug.

Anyways, I think I have found this bug in FMX04Pro. When I draw with the pen-tool, it doesn't seem to matter if I select 'straithen', 'smooth' or 'ink'. It always draws like you're drawing with the smooth selected...

I attached the fla in which I drawed a square, an 's' and a ragged line with a straight, smooth, and an ink pen so you can see for yourself

- Ruben

[xxlm]

Yeah seen.

[farafiro]

hey Ruben
go to: EDIT>> Preferences>> the EDITING tab
set the Drawing Settings to whatever u want

[Ruben]

GREAT! It worked...

thanks a lot - Ruben

[farafiro]

;)

[ashley_coleman]

FlashMX 7 has a bug where just as I think I have solved any given problem, it all goes pear shaped.
;)

"pear shaped" = slang for "Go Wrong"

[farafiro]

huh ??

[red penguin]

FYI:
Buglist on actionscript.com (http://www.actionscript.com/archives/00000591.html)

[farafiro]

thx Red
I didn't know about it, but it's listed in each other forums I think (The Bugs thread I mean)
The best I liked is Kirupa's

[ashley_coleman]

A combo box nested in a MovieClip that has been imported via "attachMovie", and populated via actionscript, will not show the option in the "Selected entry" area, though the rest works normally

I wonder if the fonts need to be embedded in the TextInput component....How ddo you do that through Action script?

[red penguin]

Does it 'trace' out && can you see it in when you SHOW VARIABLES ?

If so, then you can embed fonts on a dynamically created field with
this.myTextField.embedFonts = true;
Another solution mioght be to just embed it normally....

What font?

[krock]

when i execute a javascript pop-up from the test movie environment it goes crazy and repeatedly executes until i either force quit or am forced to restart. drives me nuts!

[Dev_Flasher]

UNDO is now LINEAR! ARRRRRGAH! (ahh now i feel better)

[farafiro]

UNDO is now LINEAR! ARRRRRGAH! (ahh now i feel better)
huh ??? :eek:

[ashley_coleman]

Does it 'trace' out && can you see it in when you SHOW VARIABLES ?

If so, then you can embed fonts on a dynamically created field with
this.myTextField.embedFonts = true;
Another solution mioght be to just embed it normally....

What font?

I dont know if the text Input thats integrated into the Combobox functions, but that did not help.

It seems it is not only limited to ComboBoxes, But radio Buttons and Lists and I dare say many other componenets.

[Dev_Flasher]

Remember in flash5 and mx, when each timeline of a movieclip had its own undo list? you could go into one symbol undo a bunch of things that you did and then go into another movieclip and keep working. Now in mx2004 all the undo's are in 1 list so each timeline no longer has its own list. This really screws up the workflow!

[red penguin]

Again, I ask: What font? Is it in your library? Do you have some code that might look like the following?
globalStyleFormat.embedFonts=true;
globalStyleFormat.textFont="myFontInLibrary";

[farafiro]

Dev
okey, I got you, MM published that with the manuals Ithink
but why it screws the work up, it's very helpfull

[mrluke]

I have been stumped on the combobox bug and posted it in the component forum here with no response, I tried various font embedding and style setting with no result...

[farafiro]

can u show us the link forthepost
thanks
;)

[mrluke]

sure thing, maybe not worded as well as this bug, but the same problem.

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=43262

[Mortimer Jazz]

Remember in flash5 and mx, when each timeline of a movieclip had its own undo list? you could go into one symbol undo a bunch of things that you did and then go into another movieclip and keep working. Now in mx2004 all the undo's are in 1 list so each timeline no longer has its own list. This really screws up the workflow!

Yep I'll second that, for me this has to be one of the most downright irritating features of MX04. I wonder why they wanted to go and screw up something which worked perfectly well in previous releases??! Dammit!

[xxlm]

Or simply giving the choice would be a good thing

[sami]

hi to everyone
i have some problem
i have scrollpane and movieClip outside i wana when drag this movie inside scrollpane and move it to left or right or top or in any place in scrollpane
i wanna the scrollpane to be scrolling depend on this movie and when stop drag it.i wanna to put the x and y for this movie in scrollpane the same x and y for xmouse and ymouse

how can do that
....
how to change direction for scrollpane from right to left direction
( i mean change change the scroll from right to left)
also
iam build text dynamic : how can write on it from right to left for arabic
iam used style and textformat
but no hange it is from left to right
thanx for every Body
nice Life

[sami]

help meeeee

[farafiro]

Hi sami
For the first Q u just need to linkage the MovieClip and attach it to the scrollpane with the contentPath
For the second Q, u just need to import the scrollBar to your flash file and edit its place

p.s.
I think u should download and read the "Using Components.pdf" from MM's site

[xxlm]

and faffy..
to add dynamic content (like laoding jpg) to this content.. how?

[sami]

may be u will understand me
i wanna when user drag this movie from outside to inside scroll i wanna the scroll change to increase or decrease depend in where user want to put this movie .

also
how can downloads pdf file tell me the link
also if i have movies contains image how put it inside scrollpane in mx and mx 2004
and how can remove everything from scrollpane


thanx alot for ur time

[Dev_Flasher]

This isint a bug but it's more Macromedia lameness:
No scroll bar component in mx2004! That component was really handy. The Scrollpane is a bit more "Clunky".

[farafiro]

u can't put a mc outside the components
then drag it into it
u need a trick for this I think
why don't u ask this in the components forums and open a descussion for this

Documentation link
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/

[sami]

thanx man
but iam asking more than one question
and about edit in place for scrollpane if i can convert direction from right to left iam open it

[farafiro]

and faffy..
to add dynamic content (like laoding jpg) to this content.. how?
huh
don't get it??

Dev_Flasher
it isn't deleted
it's there, u just need to know how to gragb it

[sami]

when put movie in scrollpane it put it in 0.0 how to put this movie in 100,100 in scrollpane ..

if i can load movie into scrollpane this movie contain image

[xxlm]

ok faffy, pls look for scrollPane inside as2 forum... :) thx

[Mortimer Jazz]

This thread has gone a little off-topic!

[xxlm]

yeah... so pls no question here if any in the another thread and a link to it if you think it's a bug...:)
C you
(what?! No I didn't post any question me.. no no)

[agent81]

No scroll bar component in mx2004! That component was really handy. The Scrollpane is a bit more "Clunky".


here's the scrollbar that I use, its alot lighter that using a Macromedia component, and it's heaps easier to jump in and fiddle around with, if you need to... :)

sorry if thats even further off topic Mortimer :) :)

[dat_guy]

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I'm at a loss to explain this mysterious "ghosting". (I really hope someone can prove that this isn't a bug! Farafino, the gauntlet has been thrown down!)

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=44696

[farafiro]

who is that farafiNo??
:p
sorry, didn't try out the datagrid at all, but there r some good articls @ MM's site

[hipster]

When I set the myScrollPane.contentPath to a swf...sometimes it the swf gets masked and it scroll nicely and sometimes it loads it in...except it doesn't get masked and it doesn't scroll.

like so...
http://www.9mmedia.com/mcgrawhill/questionaire/
click on the 3rd to the last question..."An AIDS patient..."

click around, then click back until it does it.

[farafiro]

from what u say, I think it's a path problem

[hipster]

If it were a path problem....it would NEVER work.

[farafiro]

so, either post a sample fla which sometimes work and other times doesn't
or post the script

[georgeatef]

When i'm trying to load .swf (that contains comboBox filled by actionscript) from another SWF file, the comboBox does not expand showing the data inside it. or even putting it in a Presentation sub form and press any button to show the form contains the (swf with the comboBox) the combo Box does not work also.

can u understand me? did u hear something like that?

[farafiro]

post the script in the swf that has the CB, or post a sample fla of both

[georgeatef]

Thanks for reply farafiro,

The combo box only is not working when loaded from another swf, try it before loading from inside swf.

Thanks,

[farafiro]

worked very well here mate

[georgeatef]

worked very well here mate


i did a holder.swf which loads the other swf from it, please try it farafiro and you'll notice that combo box is not working well. check new attachement.

waiting for your reply,
Thanks,

[farafiro]

I think it's a path problem
if u loaded the form into the root, it works well
if u still want me to look @ it, just post the form fla

[georgeatef]

I think it's a path problem
if u loaded the form into the root, it works well
if u still want me to look @ it, just post the form fla


Hi farafiro, find attached a very very simple example that loads a swf file contains combo box that has 4 items and doesn't interact with mouse click on it.

try combo_example.swf first then try it from holder.swf

waiting your opinion,
Thanks,

[farafiro]

sorry, but where is the script u r havingin the combo swf??

[georgeatef]

I just filled a combo box manually to simplify the example, and my exact problem is when i load combo_example.swf file that contains a comboBox filled with anything from holder.swf, i can't open the comboBox to choose anything from it, it doesn't open, doesn't pulled down to choose anyother thing.

sorry, but where is the script u r havingin the combo swf??

combo_example.swf just contain comboBox contains numbers bounded to Label component to reveal the number choose from the comboBox.

Does the comboBox normally open from holder.swf? same as if you open it separtely (from combo_example.swf i mean)?

[farafiro]

I've tried on my own example and it worked well
don't what in your fla??

[georgeatef]

I've tried on my own example and it worked well
don't what in your fla??

can you please, send me your example?
I have flash player 7,0,14,0 and just installed 7,0,19,0

and same problem occurs.
in my fla i just tried a single combo box nothing else and it doesn't work when loaded from another swf? is it my computer? or what?

send me please your example farafiro, Thanks.

[georgeatef]

can anybody help me in this, or try it and show me how to do it?

check the last example, is there any error on this syntax


on (click) {

_root.clip_holder.loadMovie("combo_example.swf");

}


so why combo box in the combo_example.swf file doesn't work?
check the last attachment,
Thanks.

[farafiro]

the main problem occurs when u load it into a target MC, I don't know why
why don't u meake them both in one fla??

[georgeatef]

the main problem occurs when u load it into a target MC, I don't know why
why don't u meake them both in one fla??

I tried it also when i use flash form application and try to show form1 which points to the combo_example.swf flash and same thing happen.

It is a big presentation and i have many files that will be shown by pressing menu buttons, and all will be loaded into a MC.

so, is it a bug that should be reported to macromedia for example? or what? coz' same file (first attachement) contains buttons and it is pressed and everything goes normal. :confused:

you said your example goes well? isn't it or what?

does any one faced this problem before? really don't know what to do, may be if there is no solution, till they fix the bug, i'll put them as u suggested in one fla :(

[Caravaggio]

Has anyone else had problems with code disappearing after closing and reopening a document? I'm pretty much a Ctrl+S freak in all my applications, but I can't tell you how many times I've lost a days worth of code. Really frustrating and the only thing I can trace it to is the use of the multiple actionscript tabs.

I hope hope hope hope hope they fix this. I'm afraid since I haven't heard much complaint about it that it won't get fixed.

[xxlm]

Yeah I got it too.
But I thought it was cause o my window os.
In fact i was opening it and nothing in the as panel.
After closing explorer window, and coming to my flash, code appears... Yahoo.
So i thought it was due to window or my ram, but not a MM flash MX2004 bug...

[farafiro]

here

[hangalot]

7.2 has been released fixing a load of bugs. goto mm's site.

[farafiro]

huh
I just didn't find
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

[hangalot]

sorry i just jumped this thread so not sure if u meant that 2 me. but here is a link to the updater.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/special/7_2updater/

it is elipses the ide update with the new components et al. also a jsfl file api (article by guy watson on MM's site) and loads more doc's

As far as players go, i tend to use the debug player so i can use afterthought to c runtime errors.
http://broadcast.artificialcolors.com/2004/06/23.html
which is an awsome tool to debug flash at runtime!

[farafiro]

wow, thanks a million for the second link
;)

[georgeatef]

7.2 has been released fixing a load of bugs. goto mm's site.

for more info on 7.2 updater check this link
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=7901F

it has the solution of my comboBox bug Farafiro, check list of fixes:
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=7901F

Bug No.
84189
Description
ComboBox loaded into another SWF closes dropdown while scrolling through the dropdown list.

[farafiro]

cool one George (by the way, I can smell that u r egyptian too)

the official Update's release note is @
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/mx2004/releasenotes.html#Update72

[georgeatef]

cool one George (by the way, I can smell that u r egyptian too)

the official Update's release note is @
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/mx2004/releasenotes.html#Update72

you have a very strong smell sense Alfred ;)
God with you, Man.

[hangalot]

must b because its such a sunny place that people can smell each other over the web!

[farafiro]

heheheeeeeee
no mate, it's the phaorah's generation feelin'
:p

[georgeatef]

heheheeeeeee
no mate, it's the phaorah's generation feelin'
:p

:D :D :D

[FlashGuru]

For a complete list of the bugs that have been fixed in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 7.2 read the release notes here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/mx2004/releasenotes.html

Some issues mentioned in this thread are out of the scope of the latest update and will more than likely be addressed in next next major release of Flash.

Kind Regards
Guy

[violette_mi]

hi all
pls help me...i cant see my code..when i open the as pannel it just doesnt show it to me

[farafiro]

Thanks FlashGuru
also u can join this thread for alike subject:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=258032#post258032

[red penguin]

@violette_mi : could you explain where the code is? Have you selected the frame in the timeline? How did the code get there in the first place?

[violette_mi]

@violette_mi : could you explain where the code is? Have you selected the frame in the timeline? How did the code get there in the first place?

the code is in the first frame in the timeline...and yes i selected it...
but i can't see it...i mean it shows me empty space (i select empty space)...
and there is defenantly a code there cause if i delete that "empty space" the swf won't work the same...( i made the .fla some time ago...)

[red penguin]

post it?

[xxlm]

try to close another aplication or your explorer's window if you are under window.
It's doing the trick for my case...

[aalkemist]

Ok, I've created a simple slideshow with progD/L audio MP3 - a combo box drives lets the user select different topics and a Loader handles the incoming swf's that correspond to what the user selects. It ALL works - however - it seems to work too well - as a user is selecting different parts of the presentation - many times 2 MP3's will play at the same time, the one that is supposed to play and then one that isn't.

There aren't multiple mp3's being called from the swf and there is no reason that I can figure for them to play. Just a ghost in the machine. Any Clues as to if I'm right or wrong?

View @ www.alkemedia.com/CSAE - and yes it is way simple and boring - but Rule #1 the client is always right.

Greg

[farafiro]

I don't think this is a bug
have u made a stop action for the sound when u select a new section with the CB??
see this usefull sounf tut:
http://www.kennybellew.com/

[aalkemist]

Thanx, but maybe I wasn't clear in my post, when the comboBox loads a new swf, the previous swf is unloaded and in each swf the mp3 audio is streamed using a mediaDisplay - so when I jump from section 8 to section 3 and I get the section 3 swf with audio - but also the section 2 audio - your saying that a stopSound action should cure this somehow??? Because it is not the previous sound that is bleeding thru, but a completely random sound file.

[georgeatef]

concerning the problem faced me in this thread

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=41850&page=4&pp=15&highlight=bugs

putting an instance of the component (comboBox) into the parent(main) swf library will solve the problem, otherwise the comboBox of the child swf loaded in the parent swf will not pulled down.

check this link:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/loaded_combobox.htm

[bleepbloop]

try this

var my_so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("superfoo");
my_so.data.name = "Hector";
trace("before my_so.clear():");
for (var prop in my_so.data) {
trace("\t"+prop);
}
trace("");
my_so.clear();
trace("after my_so.clear():");
for (var prop in my_so.data) {
trace("\t"+prop);
}


the sharedObject.clear() method does not exist! nice one MM.

[Ruben]

Hi to all,

Before I start off: All of the beneeth was posted first at the following thread:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=260762#post260762
If you (think you) are having the same problem I strongly suggest you go over there to see how everything progressed because I haven't included all of the replies posted on the original thread in this post (it took me about 12 days to figure out what caused the problem)

......I'm dealing with a VERY anoying problem: I've got this flash-movie that always published without any problems, but now all of a sudden when I press shift+F12 the file is displayed in the folder, and then after 1 second it vanishes, I'm not joking, I can't find it back in the windows-rubish-bin-thingie, and it's not in another folder either...
Even stranger: when I go to the publish-settings (in which nothing has changed by the way) and hit the publish-button then suddenly another window is focused, when I try to go back to FMX04 again then it won't let me......

......I'm running FMX04 and tried the update, but it didn't fix it. I have found a way around the problem though. I was using about 30 videos from After Effects and they were in there own movie clip symbols so that I could crossfade them with some code. The way I was doing the crossfade was to have all of the movies on the first frame and when one faded the next was revealed. Simple, but the movie stopped saving and publishing, I had the vanishing issue as well. So, I had to make individual swf files out of exh video and load them each in to the main movie separately.......

......here's an updated list of what identifies the problem* (feel free to post experiences):
1. Although the file begins the publish/process, it does not finish it;
2. When you press F12 (test movie in flash itself) the progressbar doesn't come any further then 1/3;
3. When you press shift F12 (publish without previewing) and quickly go to the folder the swf is published to (while publishing) then you sometimes can see the swf-file being created and then vanishing;
4. When you press control shift F12 (go to publish-settings) and press the publish-button then the publish-process isn't started and FMX04 crashes;
5. The Flash7.2-update (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848) doesn't fix the problem, it didn't for me that is (please note that I am using FlashMX2004PRO so wether you are running FMX04 or FMX04PRO, both ways I suggest you try it out by following the link in MortimerJazz his thread (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848));
6. Reinstalling Flash or OS didn't seem to be helping at all :(...
......
......
* Publish-settings with only flash-publishing checked

......I solved the problem!!!

Here's what I did:

1. I created a new (empty) fla;
2. I copied every layer from the old fla (the one that wouldn't let me publish to swf anymore) to the new fla one by one, after every single layer I hit shift F12 to make sure the fla wasn't corrupted (yet);
3. When I got to a certain layer the new fla wouldn't publish anymore just like the old one;
4. So I deleted the layer and hit shift F12 again to make sure it was the layer causing the problem and not something else. After deleting the layer the fla did publish as it should, so I was sure the stuff on that layer was causing the problem;
5. I went into the movieclip placed on that certain layer and figured out what layer inside of the movieclip was causing the problem (I did this by deleting/publishing as well);
6. After a while I came to the conclusion that the problem-layer was a layer with only script on it, so I deleted and published and deleted and published again...
7. After doing this my eyeball fell on one line of script which looked something like this:with(){...after filling in a path within the with-function and everything worked as it should.

So apparantly FMX04 doesn't recognize a with-function not being filled in properly as a syntax-error......

I hope this helps other people out

:rolleyes: - Ruben

[pcarini]

If anyone's still reading this ungodly long thread...

The MediaPlayback component won't display its text when its ActionScript is exported to any other frame aside from frame 1. This text tells the user whether it is streaming or has stopped, and displays the playhead time.

The playback component is otherwise perfectly functional, but the lack of text is irritating. For an example: http://www.hoodooh.com/hoodoohplayer.html . It's an mp3 player, not pretty, but working. I'll be happy to provide more detail if anyone's interested.

-C