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External Interface Callbacks with Jquery

Posted in Bugs, Flash AS 3.0, Flex 3 | Monday, September 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

So first off, NEVER use this most lazy of hacks to reference the flash object when calling a method in a flash file:

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// some code
function test() {
	flashID.ner("hello"); // BAAAAAAD!
}

For some reason it works… Some of the time. On Safari when testing running from Flex. On my Mac.

I was being lazy and not really thinking back to how things work in Javascript at the time, then having recently started using Jquery, I tried:

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// some code
function test() {
	var flashMovie = $('#flashID');
	flashMovie.ner("hello"); // ALSO BAAAAAAD!
}

Also doesn’t work, for some reason Jquery removes the methods associated with the embed tag that is written, and replaces them with only the Jquery methods. So in order for this to work the code needs to be simply:

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function test() {
	var flashMovie = document.getElementByID("flashID");
	flashMovie.ner("hello"); // FINALLY! It worked.
}

Flash Input Text Bug

Posted in Bugs, CS3 | Saturday, December 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The other day I was throwing an email form together really quickly, and decided to lay it out on the stage. So added 4 input fields, for name, email, subject, and message, and used those names as the instance names. then i put some labels in them, since i was planning on doing some nice ON_FOCUS text relacement. but before going much farther i needed to check to see if the alignment was right, and tested the movie.
At which point I quite unexpectedly got this error:

Error: Error #2078: The name property of a Timeline-placed object cannot be modified.
	at flash.display::DisplayObject/set name()
	at flash.display::Sprite/flash.display:Sprite::constructChildren()
	at flash.display::Sprite$iinit()
	at flash.display::MovieClip$iinit()

And I hadn’t even imported the form class I had used a dozen times before…

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E4X & XMLList fails when defined in a switch statement.

Posted in Bugs, Flash AS 3.0 | Saturday, November 17th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

This one had me REALLY confused, for a good bit of time, luckily a co-worker helped be go through a rather vigorous debugging session to pinpoint the problem. Apparently if you are attempting to access a piece of a larger XML object using the new E4X capabilities and you attempt to do it with a single line of code, it will return a null object instead of the expected XMLList object it should. After looking into it further, I discovered that if you define the variable, but don’t set it’s value on the same line, then it works fine… See wonky huh?

Example (Based on Adobes example documentation):

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package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
 
public class XMLListExample extends Sprite
{
	private var books:XML;
 
	public function XMLListExample()
	{
		books =		<books>
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Design Patterns" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="The Pragmatic Programmer" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Test Driven Development" />
			<book publisher="Addison-Wesley" name="Refactoring to Patterns" />
			<book publisher="O'Reilly Media" name="The Cathedral & the Bazaar" />
			<book publisher="O'Reilly Media" name="Unit Test Frameworks" />
		</books>;
 
		showBooksByPublisher();
	}
 
	private function showBooksByPublisher():void
	{
		var ner = "ren";
		switch(ner){
			case "ren":
			// the working code
			var results:XMLList;// = new XMLList();
			results = books.book.(@publisher == "Addison-Wesley");
			trace("results:\n"+results); // returns a the first 4 items (which contain "Adison...")
 
			// now for the fun!!!
			var otherResults:XMLList = books.book.(@publisher == "O'Reilly Media");
			trace("other results:\n"+otherResults); // returns null? (actually a null object)
 
			// just to see if oneline variable definitions work
			var test:String = 'ner';
			trace("test string: "+test);
 
			// seeing what else is a problem to do this way
			var objTest:Object = {ner:"ren"};
			trace('test object: '+objTest.ner); // yup works fine.
			//
			var xmlTest:XML = <ners>
			<ner>ren</ner>
			</ners>;
			trace('test xml:\n'+xmlTest); // no problem here either.
			//
			var numTest:Number = 45;
			trace('test number: '+numTest); // this is fine too.
			break;
		}
		if(ner == "ren")
		{
			var otherOtherResults:XMLList = books.book.(@publisher == "O'Reilly Media");
			trace("other other results:\n"+otherOtherResults); // works fine as well.
		}
	}
}// end of class
}

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