Re: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-23 Thread Ashim D'Silva
I'd say the width value you're using isn't so dependable because of the way text scales. If you turn autoSize off it may help. Failing that, I'd render each piece to a bitmapData and use a bitmap. They work better for scaling and rotation, although scaling up is ofcourse a bad idea, so render your

[Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-22 Thread Sander Schuurman
Hi list... I'm trying to make some kind of Dock... http://www.sentoplene.com/dock But sometimes when I stop with the mouse, some characters keep on moving slightly... How can I get rid of that? I'm simply doing on Event .ENTER_FRAME: scaleIcons and then positionIcons. I'v tried to

RE: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-22 Thread Cor
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sander Schuurman Sent: woensdag 22 juli 2009 17:31 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters... Hi list... I'm trying to make some kind of Dock... http://www.sentoplene.com/dock But sometimes when I stop with the mouse

Re: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-22 Thread Ruy Adorno
Hello Sander, Nice to see you around here, I saw in twitter you're starting your own dock effect this morning. It's hard to know the reason for this strange behavior of the elements without see the code, but I have a guess that could be some problems with float numbers, I already have similar

Re: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-22 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
try rounded values? On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Sander Schuurman b...@chello.nl wrote: Hi list... I'm trying to make some kind of Dock... http://www.sentoplene.com/dock But sometimes when I stop with the mouse, some characters keep on moving slightly... How can I get rid of that?

Re: [Flashcoders] Dancing characters...

2009-07-22 Thread Ian Thomas
Also - have you got those text fields set to anti-alias for animation? If not, you should - anti-alias for readability can cause odd effects for moving text. HTH, Ian On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Ruy Adornor...@lesite.ca wrote: Hello Sander, Nice to see you around here, I saw in