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witherton
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October 12, 2016
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The scale property

  • October 12, 2016
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I was reading the below linked tutorial about targeting multiple screens for Adobe Air and noticed that the code contained the following line:

Supporting the multiple screen sizes of multiple devices in Adobe AIR | Adobe Developer Connection

base.scale = appScale;

The ".scale" part highlights in AS3, but it doesn't seem to affect anything onstage. I copied&pasted almost directly from the tutorial for a test run. Typically when I am scaling something, I use the ".scaleX" or ".scaleY". I have been googling for a few hours and haven't been able to find any documentation about ".scale", even though it clearly has to be an AS# supported property. What does it do, how is it different from scaleX/Y and why might it not be visibly doing anything in my application?

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Correct answer kglad

It must be a keyword of some sort, but I can't recall what that could be.  In fact, that tutorial you referenced didn't make sense to me, even granting it's a few years old.

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withertonAuthor
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October 12, 2016

Thanks for reply. Any thoughts on why it highlights? Or possibly what that tutorial is getting at? I only ask because it was published on the Adobe site.

kglad
kgladCorrect answer
Adobe Expert
October 12, 2016

It must be a keyword of some sort, but I can't recall what that could be.  In fact, that tutorial you referenced didn't make sense to me, even granting it's a few years old.

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    withertonAuthor
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    October 12, 2016

    Thank you for confirming what I suspected, but doubted because of where it was hosted. 

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    kglad
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    October 12, 2016

    there's no as3 native scale property.

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