If you ever tried to apply 9-slice scaling to a mask, you probably noticed it doesn’t work.

The solution is this:
1. Use a movieclip and apply 9-slice scaling to it. (let’s say mcShape)
2. Add this movieclip into the mask. (so you would have mcMask.mcShape)
3. Apply cacheAsBitmap to mcMask and mcObject, where mcObject is the object you want to mask.
4. Apply the mask with ActionScript: mcObject.mask = mcMask; (do not apply 9-slice scaling to mcMask)

Hope this helps! :-)

If you used AS2, you probably loved the way duplicating movieclips worked. We did too! :-)

We created this prototype function so that you can easily use the same technique in AS3:

// Duplicate movieclips in AS3
 MovieClip.prototype.duplicateMovieClip = function(obj : *, pName : String) : Object
{
	this[pName] = this.addChild(obj);
	this[pName].name = pName;
	return this[pName];
};

This is how you call this function:

for(var i : uint = 0; i < nrStars; i++)
{
	var mc : MovieClip = mcRating.duplicateMovieClip(new mcStar(), "mcItem" + i);
       trace(mcRating["mcItem" + i].name);
	mc.x = i * mcRating.mcStar.width;
}

mcRating - is the movieclip where the stars appear
mcStar - is the linked movieclip in the library, with the name mcStar
"mcItem" + i - is the name of each duplicated MovieClip.

In the example above I'm assuming you have a variable that holds the number of stars, and that you want to place each star near the previous one.

Any questions, let us know! Enjoy! :-)

The 1st video tutorial is up! It’s in the General Videos category, so you can find it on the Videos TAB of each product.

This is the most requested video, and it applies to all our products: Using Flabell Components in your Flash Projects.

Enjoy! If you have any questions, let us know! ;)

We’ve been often asked how we embed fonts in out Flash Components, so we’ll do a simple step by step tutorial for Flash CS4 (AS3). We are using a MAC, but the same applies for Windows.

Step 1

Right click on the library and select New Font.

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As you probably heard in AS3 to treat the “release_outside” event it’s a little bit tricky.
But AS3 comes with solutions for everything even for “stage_leave” event. In AS2 you couldn’t do that.
Now you can do that by treating the “Event.MOUSE_LEAVE” event.
To do that you need to use event listeners also on stage.

This is how we do it step by step:

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