Because you are now working with flash.display.* classes, where the width/height are part of the transform properties and touching them when the object is empty resets the scale values to 0. It is one of the reasons UIComponent overrides width/height.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mouhong.lin Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 5:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Cannot change Loader object's width and height in constructor. Hi. I create an instance of Loader class. Then use it to load a png file. However, I cannot change the loader's width and height. Code: var _url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("a.png"); var _loader:Loader = new Loader(); _loader.load(_url); this.addChild(_loader); If I just type the code above, the png file will be loaded. But if I add a new line: _loader.width = 50; The picture disappeared when I run the application. If I change the with property in a event listener: _loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoad); ... private function onLoad(event:Event):void { _loader.width = 50; } the loader will change the width property successfully. I just wanna know why I must place the changing width code in the onLoad function? Thanks!
