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Entries Tagged ‘actionscript’

Disabling TextArea Scrolling in Flash AS3

Had a problem while working on a new Flash App today.
I have a number of dynamic text fields (TextAreas), and they scroll in-place when the user highlights the text and when the user uses the mouse wheel while hovering over them.
I searched for a way to stop this scrolling for quite a while and found [...]

AS3 Error: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant

File under Adobe Flash 9 / Action Script 3 (AS3) Errors
Error Message: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: caseStudyLink.
The Problem: I was getting this error message when trying to tween a MovieClip on the stage. Flash was telling me that the error message was coming from one [...]

  

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