Comments on: ScrollRect and CacheAsBitmap

By: skyboy

skyboy — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:07:12 +0000

The problem with this method is that IE uses a different flash player all together, complete with its own unique bugs and slowdowns/speedups, based on some of my own experience (ie. x/y variables becoming undefined half way through a function where this.removeMovieClip gets called in AS2. resolution was to save it to a temp variable when the function started).

By: jackson

jackson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:49:21 +0000

Good catch; I’ve updated the article to fix the typo. And I’ll add that download link soon.

By: Aidan Fraser

Aidan Fraser — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:44:07 +0000

Awesome demo man. Very helpful.

Can I suggest a download link for the swf? I only have the debug player as a standalone app, not installed in my browser.

Also: “but when it’s turned on the redraw” should be “but when it’s turned off the redraw” ??

By: jackson

jackson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:55:20 +0000

Awesome! Let me know if you get it working.

By: Sindisil

Sindisil — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:33:29 +0000

Previous to FF 3.6, Flash Switcher (http://www.sephiroth.it/firefox/flash_switcher/) is an awesome tool for testing on multiple FP versions (both version & release/debug).

Sadly, I’m having no end of trouble running it under FF 3.6, either on WinXP or Vista x64.

I’ve resorted to always running release FP in my browser & doing all debug using the standalone Flash Player. Far from ideal, obviously.

If I have time this weekend, I’m going to spend a few hours trying to get FlashSwitcher working in FF 3.6.

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:07:01 +0000

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By: jackson

jackson — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:10:44 +0000

Not that I've found. The best way I know is Windows-only.

Install Debug in IE and Release in Firefox (or visa versa)
Install the IE Tab Firefox extension.
Use IE Tab to switch the rendering mode when you want to switch the Player

Anybody know a better way? Anybody know a good way for Mac?

By: Karl Knocking

Karl Knocking — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:43:31 +0000

A bit OT but is there an easy way to switch between Debug and Release Player inside the browser?

By: Alec McEachran

Alec McEachran — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:29:01 +0000

Hey Jackson,

I’ve just got around to catching up on your blog. Thanks for this interesting article. As you say, it’s pretty counter-intuitive.

By: jackson

jackson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:08 +0000

You (the AS3 programmer) can't explicitly dispose the cached bitmap, but you can't explicitly dispose of anything. All you can do is remove all your references to an object and let the GC clean it up. In this case, the cached bitmap will be cleaned up when you clean up the display objects involved. There is definitely extra memory usage for this technique, but it certainly isn't a memory leak.