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I’ve built this site mainly to share knowledge and my personal thoughts and findings.I post educational stuff, mostly related to Biology, as well as code snippets and tips and tricks related to computing in general and to Adobe flash and its scripting language (ActionScript) in particular. I hold a teaching diploma in Biochemistry, a certificate …

Flash scrollPane component scrollbar not showing up

This fix applies to flash 8 scrollPane component v2. Here’s the problem: you attach content dynamically at runtime to your scrollPane, then much to your surprise, the vertical scroll bar doesn’t show up despite the fact that you specified vScrollPolicy as “on” or “auto” and that the content is larger than the scrollPane. You probably …

Flash Player cache and smaller swf files

This new feature has been introduced in flash player 9,0,115,0.  Certain standard flash components (dataGrid, comboBox, list etc..) are used by a large number of websites. For example, More than 100 Kb of identical data has to be downloaded for every Flex application (the flex framework) . With the new Flash Player cache, Flex applications …

Flash loader component failing to scale down loaded pictures

Hi, I’ve ran into this bug recently and tried to find a solution, a quick google search returned no answers to the issue so I thought I would post about the problem here and also post the solution / workaround I found. The problem is that the loader component (flash 8 AS2) is not scaling …

XML connector and Data binding tutorial.

Hello guys, It’s been a while and I was very busy , could not get this data binding and XML connector tutorial posted. Excuse my delay. So here is the long waited xml connector and data biniding tutorial at last! Ok, let’s explain few things before we start. XML connector is a class whose job …