Get a Life you mean.

And dude, if you swear in your emails they will likely be blocked by
corporate email servers, so nobody will be able to help.

So right back atcha... 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lieven
Cardoen
Sent: 29 September 2006 08:59
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height

Francis, thx. This was what I was looking for.



And to all you guys who had problems with my profanity, excuse me and get a
live.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis
Turmel
Sent: donderdag 28 september 2006 20:09
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height

I wrote my solution to this a couple weeks ago (never got any answers if it
worked for the person who asked though).

take a look here:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-August/170985.ht
ml

It seems that the first use of a text height in actionscript can be
unreliable but from the second time you reference it it looks fine.

So if my theory holds its ground, your first use (the trace()) would print
out the wrong value, but your assignment afterwards will be ok.
Remove the trace and it shouldn't work.

I'd love to have some feedback on this, its an intriguing one.

hope this helps,

- Francis



On 9/28/06, vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Haha, I would seriously take that bet.  You have to listen to what he
is
> saying, xray will trip you out; not only can you control anything in
your
> swf at runtime but you can also view all of its properties.  I am new
to it
> so i don't know all it can do but I KNOW it can help you with _height.
>
> V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Grden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] movieclip._y = textField._height
>
>
> > sure it does (xray) - it has a logger too and it includes a
timestamp
> (which
> > trace does not) - so, I would say it's actually a bit stronger of a
tool
> for
> > timing issues ;)
> >
> > I got $20 that says he figures out the problem in under 10 minutes
with
> > xray.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > On 9/28/06, Brian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> A trap I often fall into when debugging flash is missing the 
> >> obvious.  Take for example,
> >>
> >> > If I put movieclip._y = 60 , it works fine If I put movieclip._y 
> >> > = textField._height , it doesn't work
fine....
> >>
> >> and then
> >>
> >> > trace(textField._height) prints 60, yes.
> >>
> >> then my question would be - did you trace at the same point in time
> that
> >> set
> >> _y? i.e. does your code look like
> >>
> >> trace(textField._height);
> >> movieclip._y = textField._height;
> >>
> >> if that prints 60, and the movieclip ends up at 0, then what that
> means,
> >> most likely, is that you set it 60, but then set it to 0 somewhere
> else.
> >> I've often lost an hour trying to debug similar issues.  "It traces
out
> to
> >> something and I set it to that, but it doesn't work".  Well, maybe
it
> did,
> >> and then some other point of the code changes the _y value.  Or you
had
> a
> >> typo, etc.
> >>
> >> Maybe the textField's height is 60 once it has text in it, but
you're
> >> setting the y position before you put in the text. And so on.
> >>
> >> Xray is a great tool for inspecting the program's run-time state,
but
> it
> >> doesn't help as much with debugging timing dependencies.
> >>
> >> --Brian
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