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onKillFocus gotcha

I’m sure I won’t suprise anyone by saying that TextFields are buggy, but here’s yet another contribution to the growing list of incomprehensible things about textfields. TextField.onKillFocus seems to have a mind of its own. It seems like it’s the only event handler that can bubble events into itself. WTF? Well if you set focus […]

Cleaning up, debugging and repackaging old, badly broken movies from hell

I have been busy the past few days cleaning up and debugging a movie a client sent me that I can only describe as horrible. In-line code everywhere, inconsistent naming, _root references galore, three frame loading schemes of the quasi-ifFrameLoaded variety, everything you could possibly do wrong is there. This isn’t a small movie either; […]