Perhaps it's doing some rounding because your mouse is sitting on half pixels and it's not noticeable to the eye (if that's even possible). Have you tried putting a Math.ceil around the _x values to see if it helps always round the value up?
On 2/28/07, David Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul, I know it's no help, but I recently ran into this also and never found a workaround... I'd love to know if you find one! --Dave > Heya folks, > > This is baffling me (and making me very annoyed), and I haven't > found an > answer elsewhere, so here goes... > > I have a main movie with a custom drag "scrubber" control. At the > core > of my app (Flash 8 Pro) is this scrubber that needs to simply > return its > position so I can use it to display the proper frame of a movie clip > (with many frames). > > Problem is that dragging the scrubber in one direction very slowly > will > frequently get erratic and NOT just increase or decrease relevant > to the > drag direction. Now, I originally thought it could be poor rounding > math code on my part, but I finally put a text counter on the screen > that simply displays the value of "mcTheMovieClip._x" which is the > dragged clip. Here's what I mean by erratic: > > Dragging from left to right, ._x reports: > ..101, 102, 101, 102, 103, 104, .. > > What the friggin' poo?? What exactly causes a dragged movie clip to > jump back/forth a pixel or two? It's making an accurate, consistently > one-directional drag behavior to be roughly impossible! > > I'm miffed, but hopefully somebody has a clue on this and would be so > kind as to throw down some helpful bits. > > Thanks! > Paul Hoza _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
_______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
