This has directly affected the last two AS3 projects I had, but I remember it happening with AS2 projects as well, and I haven’t really found a great solution. The following conditions apply:
- I have a fullscreen site with fluid design (stage resize listeners)
- On the stage there are movieclips with filters (glow, blur, whatever)
- In the browser, my movie is set to ‘wmode = transparent’
When I resize my browser, any clips being repositioned that have filters on them just disappear. The only way to stop this from happening is to either a) kill the filters, or b) kill the transparency.
It doesn’t matter if I apply the filters manually in the Properties panel or dynamically in AS. I’ve tried setting ‘cache as bitmap’, embedding the movieclip in another movieclip, all to no effect.
The only (fairly horrible) solution I’ve found is to add an ENTER_FRAME event listener to the clips that constantly check for their position until it’s been found. That seems to work, but seems like a ridiculous workaround.
Has anyboy else experienced this problem, and/or found a decent solution?