We work in Flash CS4, and save our files in Flash CS3, and sometimes when we publish the swf file from the Flash CS3 FLA, we get this error:

Error 5000: The class '..' must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.

Replace “..” with whatever class you use. The solution to this problem is pretty simple. Read the rest of this entry »

You double checked all your paths and everything seems right, except that the content doesn’t load?

Make sure you have the following crossdomain.xml file in the root of your server, which will allow any server to connect to your server and get the files they need. This is useful when you want to host your files on a server, and the swf files on a different server.

Get the file from here: Download!

For all of us that used AS2 for a long time, we want some things to remain as simple as they were in AS2. So we created our own functions which we use as Prototypes! :-)

duplicateMovieClip

// var mc : MovieClip = mcRating.duplicateMovieClip(new mcStar(), "mcStar" + j);
MovieClip.prototype.duplicateMovieClip = function(obj : *, pName : String = "mcItem") : Object
{
       this[pName] = this.addChild(obj);
       this[pName].name = pName;
       return this[pName];
};

getNextHighestDepth

Make sure that mc is inside mcImages (or whatever movieclip you are using).

// mc.getNextHighestDepth(mcImages);
MovieClip.prototype.getNextHighestDepth = function(scope : Object) : void
{
	scope.setChildIndex(this, (scope.numChildren - 1));
};

Hope this help! :-)

Our Flabell Support team gets a lot of emails asking the same question “why doesn’t the content load?”. We decided to share a little knowledge with you, which will help you understand and fix the problem on your end.

Information

First, please make sure you read the article posted here, if you need to move the content files in different folders than the default structure we provide. The pathToFiles variable is very important, and you must follow the steps described in the article precisely.

Safari

In order to use our easy debugging solution, you must download Apple’s free browser, Safari.

Safari has a feature called “Activity”, which opens a window and shows you the entire activity of your browser. it’s under Window>Activity.

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If you downloaded any of our Flash Components, you already know we define the size in the HTML code, as well as in the XML code. Well, let me tell you we define the size in the ActionScript code as well, and if we don’t, we resize the component to take the entire Stage size.

I’ll briefly explain why we do this, and what are the advantages of doing it like this.

The way the Flash Component resizes, is by reading the componentWidth and  componentHeight values, but the priority is:

1. HTML.
2. XML.
3. Stage size (or ActionScript passed).

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