Hi. That sounds like it might be what happened. The timeline with the gradient MovieClip on it is only three frames long, it animates the gradient by setting it's properties programatically rather than a timeline animation, and it only changes frames using the next() method, but I guess it still counts as an animated timeline.
Thank you. :) -------------------------------- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Specialist amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 214 King Street West, Suite 214 Toronto Canada M5H 3S6 P 416.364.1455 ext. 232 F 416.364.9830 W www.delvinia.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient or received this communication by error, please notify the sender and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ Ce message peut contenir de l'information légalement privilégiée ou confidentielle. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire ou croyez avoir reçu par erreur ce message, nous vous saurions gré d'en aviser l'émetteur et d'en détruire le contenu sans le communiquer a d'autres ou le reproduire. > -----Original Message----- > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com > [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf > Of Karl DeSaulniers > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:38 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime bitmap caching causing a > MovieClip to notrender > > Runtime bitmap caching is not reccomended for animation. It's > trying to cache every step in your animation sequence. You > probably experienced a frame or two not fully loading before > it was trying to load the next frames in the sequence. Thus > it dissapeared. > > That's more of an educated guess though, so not 100% on it. > > Karl > > Sent from losPhone > > On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:12 PM, "Andrew Murphy" <amur...@delvinia.com> > wrote: > > > Hello. :) > > > > I've run into a strange, transient rendering error: > > > > The Flash movie in question contains a MovieClip which has > a gradient > > in it, going from fully transparent to fully opaque black. At run > > time it gets moved and rotated over top of an image file > which is also > > loaded at run time, so that there is a black faded edge to > the image > > where it goes under the gradient. > > > > This worked fine, except that every dozen or so times that the page > > loaded the gradient MovieClip would fail to appear. I've > done tests > > to trace out it's x, y, rotation and visible properties and > there was > > no difference between page loads when the gradient was visible and > > page loads where it failed to appear. > > > > I had thought it was a problem with a vector transparent gradient > > rendering in a Flash movie which has wmode set to transparent, so I > > replaced the vector gradient with a PNG file, but during additional > > testing it broke in the same way. > > > > I wasn't quite sure what to try next so, experimenting, I tried > > turning off "Use runtime bitmap caching" on that MovieClip, > and that > > appears to have fixed it. > > > > Has anyone else run into this problem? > > > > > > -------------------------------- > > Andrew Murphy > > Interactive Media Specialist > > <mailto:amur...@delvinia.com> amur...@delvinia.com > > > > Delvinia > > 214 King Street West, Suite 214 > > Toronto Canada M5H 3S6 > > > > P 416.364.1455 ext. 232 F 416.364.9830 W www.delvinia.com > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > This email message may contain privileged or confidential > information. > > If you are not the intended recipient or received this > communication > > by error, please notify the sender and delete the message without > > copying or disclosing it. > > > > AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ > > Ce message peut contenir de l'information légalement privilégiée ou > > confidentielle. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire ou > croyez avoir r > > eçu par erreur ce message, nous vous saurions gré d'en aviser > > l'émetteur et d'en détruire le contenu sans le communiquer > a d'autres > > ou le reproduire. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
