Polgara Knits » flash http://knitting.polgara.net All about knitting and crochet, patterns and yarn, finished projects and works in progress. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 This has absolutely nothing to do with knitting http://knitting.polgara.net/2009/04/14/this-has-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-knitting/ http://knitting.polgara.net/2009/04/14/this-has-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-knitting/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:54:33 +0000 Polgara http://knitting.polgara.net/?p=131 Flash has been my life lately, specifically learning Actionscript 3.0 from a class at Otis. Tomorrow is the last one, and I must say, I wasn’t sure at first that it was a good idea, but now, nine classes later, I’m glad I did it. I’ve learned a lot, not least of which is that a) I’m not stupid, and b) there is usually no magic recipe for my task and I just have to do it on my own.

Two important things I’ve learned that either took much googling, or wasn’t on google at all:

1) .text and .htmlText are two different things. The second one will insure that your text field renders in html. (Learned this from a colleague, as google gave me no joy.)

2) MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT and MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT are also two different things, and this is very important: The former works on the parent movieclip, while the latter is more likely to work on whatever child object is contained within the movieclip (so!frustrating!).

I have put them here so I will always remember them, and hopefully to make them easier for others to find, should they need them.

Now it’s time to conquer the checkboxes nested in a drop-down menu. Yay?

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