Recent content by Ziporama

Thanks for your time Pixl8r. I found something workable on Joey Lott's person13.com. I just embed another rectangular MovieClip by itself on the first frame of my component's timeline. In my class constructor, I then tell it to make the rectangular box invisible, and set its _width and _height...

Yes. The problem is that 1) I don't want a visible border or background(createEmptyMovieClip() will give me what I want), and 2), I don't want the calling myClip to be visible at all. I can create vars for the new height and width to do all the calculations for drawing based on (100/_xscale) and...

Sure. I want to be able to draw a component dynamically that is resizable at author time, and avoid the scaling that, for instance, extending UIObject would do to it. One kludge that I've considered is to have an invisible MovieClip, and have it createEmptyMovieClip() of the same size that is...

Is it possible to create an invisible MovieClip that will spawn visible children? Failing this, is there any way that I can create a MovieClip of a given size with a transparent fill AND a transparent border? Thanks!