The v2 Datagrid component features column sorting which can be triggered by clicking on a header. The trouble is that it only sorts columns alphabetically; if we have a column of numbers then 100, 20, 3000 is a valid ascending alphabetical order, not 20, 100, 3000 as you would expect. There is no simple way […]
Just a year ago we were stuck with v2 components, and lots were dissatisfied with this state of affairs. Well, behold, as there are an ever-increasing amount of contenders in the battle for component dominance.
The first commercial offering was in the AS2 arena was Keith Peters’ bit component set, now available through FlashLoaded. They’re lightweight […]
Here’s a fun little bug for today: if you have components on stage, don’t try to use _root.getNextHighestDepth()… There is a movie clip called ‘reserved’ on level 1048575 and _root.getNextHighestDepth() will yield 1048576. But level 1048576 is part of the special levels that can’t be properly unloaded and live in limbo in the player… meaning […]
Had a heck of a time figuring this out: if you set disableStyles property for all of the bit components to false (the default), it will apply a TextFormat to the underlying TextField each and every time the component is invalidated. That means that if you try to change the font face through HTML in […]
After posting the component swapper extension, Tek suggested modifying it accommodate upgrading from v1 to v2 components. I never really used the v1 components, so I hadn’t thought about it, but it does make a whole lot of sense. Should work with all components of the v1 series but tested only with set 1 and […]