Video object _width property

Hi myIP
thanks for the heads up,

I've found an ugly hack though:
The anonimous function in the init method compiles without error and
works, like the one below it, as expected. For now I'm OK with it, but
it annoys me pretty much. Maybe later I'll look into it deeper at a
later time (and post it here). Must be something silly...

private function init(target:MovieClip,
depth:Number,
ns:NetStream){
//... more code here

this.update = function(){
this.screen._width = this.screen.width;
this.screen._height = this.screen.height;
};
}

public function update(){
this.screen._width = this.screen.width;
this.screen._height = this.screen.height;
}


myIP wrote:
> Now I fully understand your question. I don?t know why that is and I am curious myself. Hopefully someone will post something about it.

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Manno Bult
manno@xs4all.nl

Now I fully understand your question. I don’t know why that is and I am curious myself. Hopefully someone will post something about it.

myIP wrote:
> The ?_width? property is used to assign the video a value or transform the
> video to whatever value. The ?width? property is a read-only property. It
> will simply just return the current width of the video. Look at the example in
> the link below;

I know the distinction between the two, I was only wondering why it
gives compiletime errors when referring to the "_width" property (whith
preceding underscore) and not when referring to the "width" property.
Though representing different properties, they are both _valid_ properties.

The error makes no sense to me really since the _width property does
exist while it claims it does not...

Manno



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Manno Bult
manno@xs4all.nl

The “_width” property is used to assign the video a value or transform the video to whatever value. The “width” property is a read-only property. It will simply just return the current width of the video. Look at the example in the link below;

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002848.html