yeah I tried that this morning (using loadMovie() instead of mcl) - same
results
On 8/23/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
seeing you at the meeting tonight i take it :)
this is a world of pain by the looks of it... have you tried loading it in
without a loader, rather old style target.load(path) and see if that
solves
the problem. i have had some weirdness in flex1.5 with loading content as
well and hacking it like this (which makes my stomach churn) has had the
desired result.
On 8/23/06, Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Johannes,
>
> Welcome back to Boston! (I didn't get a chance to say so on the BFPUG
> list)
>
> On 8/23/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > thats quite a hack. a normal cast then returns null i assume?
> >
> Yeah that's quite a hack indeed! We are casting the thing with a
> normal cast as well and it just yields the same results; it doesn't
> show up as null though. Even with the hack it's not allowing us to
> manipulate the _visible property, or at least it doesn't show any
> effect when viewed in the Flash player.
>
> > On 8/23/06, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > this is the only thing that seems to bring it back to life:
> > >
> > > if(targetMC instanceof MovieClip == false) targetMC.__proto__ = new
> > > MovieClip();
> > >
> > > before calling MCL.loadClip(), the target is a bonified MovieClip,
but
> as
> > > soon as progress starts, it's not anymore.
> > >
> > > On 8/23/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > what happens if you cast it as a movieclip?
> > > >
> > > > On 8/23/06, Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 6/7/06, Jason Lutes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > Can anyone suggest why a condition would be false for a test
on
> a
> > > > movie
> > > > > > clip using instanceof MovieClip?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have a function that includes the line:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > if (graphicClip.highlighting instanceof MovieClip)
> > > > > > graphicClip.highlighting._visible = false;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If I precede the line with trace(typeof
graphicClip.highlighting)
> I
> > > > get
> > > > > > "movieclip" in the Output panel. Nevertheless, the instanceof
> > > > condition
> > > > > > refuses to report correctly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > I bet if you do trace("type: " + typeof(graphicClip.highlighting
));
> it
> > > > > will trace "movieclip" (lowercase) instead of "MovieClip" as it
> > > > > normally would.
> > > > >
> > > > > John Grden was just asking if you ever figured this out because
we
> are
> > > > > having a very similar issue, in fact it might be the same issue.
> Our
> > > > > instance doesn't respond to the _visible property any more when
> > > > > retrieving a reference from our class. We are loading it from an
> > > > > external SWF using MovieClipLoader. I have yet to be able to
> recreate
> > > > > this issue with an FLA and the IDE. It only appears so far when
> using
> > > > > our loading class and compiling with MTASC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, any insight that anyone has into this would be greatly
> > > > > appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Chris
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