When creating a movie clip with an associated AS 2.0 class (using the Linkage dialog for the symbol), any components on that movie clip cannot be accessed in the constructor of the class. References to the component instances will be non-null, but they’ll appear as plain movieclip instances and not have any of the methods or fields from their component classes. Continue reading →

The “selected” parameter of the CellRenderer’s setValue() method behaves differently from how it is documented. Continue reading →

The AS2 analogue of Java’s anonymous inner class construct is common for event handlers and looks like this: class Bar { var notifier; public function foo(Void):Void { var loadListener = new Object(); loadListener.numLoaded = 0; loadListener.handleEvent = function(evt) { if … Continue reading →

Be careful when parsing numeric entries from a text field or similar component in which the user is supposed to enter a numeric value as a string. Continue reading →