I have a slightly different problem. We have an application that we are building that needs to change the cursor based on a location within a timeline - and not just in response to a MouseEvent. So at certain times we need a mouse pointer (default cursor) and at other times we need a hand cursor.

We have been able to change the cursor using the “buttonMode” and “useHandCursor” methods. The only problem that we have encountered is that if we just let the app run (meaning the timeline is advancing) without interacting at all with the user interface (meaning NO mouse movement or clicks), we can see the cursor change from default (mouse pointer) to hand cursor. However as the timeline advances, the cursor never changes back UNLESS you move or click the mouse.

We know that the event has fired to change the cursor back. However its visual appearance does not change without the mouse event.

In other languages there are usually methods to “force” a repaint - something that would cause the cursor to update.

I have tried a few things like “updateAfterEvent” on the triggering event - but I have not been successful in getting the cursor to change.

Do you have any suggestions? I was thinking about generating a mouse event on our own - maybe?

Thanks

I hope you dont mind a small question, I always wondered how you get the back button to work in flash, or at least controlling page flow through url

ie:
http://www.schematic.com/#//
http://www.schematic.com/#/aboutus
http://www.schematic.com/#/ourwork
etc
is this controlled in php/ruby ??? and feed back to flash?
cheers
Curt

In your code you are calling server.start(), isn’t it just start()? You are defining a start() method of the DemoServer class, you have both server and client socket varibles, but you call a server.start() method. I don’t know if there is such one but how does the DemoServer.start() method gets called then?

public class DemoServer
{
private ServerSocket server;
private Socket client;

private BufferedReader in;
private PrintWriter out;

public void start()
{
// starter code here
}

public static void main( String[] args )
{
try
{
DemoServer server = new DemoServer();
server.start();
//start()

I’m also very interested in how we go about handling multiple clients.

Google seems to like you, your google code project is the first hit when I search for Actionscript 3 collections.

If you wanted to push for some kind of community adopted standard then you’re in the best place to do so. I hope other bloggers pick this up and run with it, developing server-side tie-ins with java and other languages constantly highlights AS3s need for a collections framework of some kind.