Flex 3 locale swf loading bug on firefox

Hi all
I REALLY need your help here
if anyone knows this bug or have any idea how to deal with it, it would really mean a lot to me
i've been tring everything
description:
i'm building an application using flex 3, where all texts are being localized via the locale loaded at runtime
i suspect that for some reason the locale swf i'm loading isn't updating elements of the page
as you can see in the image below, texts appear cut off.
this happens to me only in firefox, no matter which page of the app is being displayed
any ideas?
appreciate your time in answering
Yariv Gilad

Hello and thank you for your quick answer
the text is indeed right, and what you say make sense to me
how can i proceed from here though?
how can i fix the "sizing and positioning problem" ?
the UI components are there and are being populated dynamically through the locale
is there a way to force them to update?
is this the right direction at all?
any other ideas?
just to note that if i hard-code the text into the components they are rendered perfectly
so i don't see a reason to change their position or size...
thank you for your time
Yariv Gilad

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show on their homepage. At this point, we have had one resource
bundle (.properties file) that we have used for all of the strings.
We compile these resource bundles in the locale swfs for each of
the 8 langauges we support.
The twist is that we also allow customers to write "custom
widgets" in Flex that they can add to the homepage if they so
desire. It sounds like they could create a custom .properties file
which would allow us to create a seperate resource bundle for the
strings for their dialog. But then would the en-us.swf have to be
recreated to include their bundle in the overall swf? If so,
wouldn't the client have to have our "standard app" .properties
file to make one cumulative en-us.swf?
Or can you have multiple locale swfs for different dialigs
(ie Standard.us-en.swf and Custom.us-en.swf)? That way our standard
strings stay seperate, but the client can still add their own?
Anyone have any thoughts?

I think you can have separate locale swf. I think you can use
loadResourceModule() to load any resource swf. See FB3 help topics:
Localizing Flex Applications
Using resource modules
Creating resource bundles at run time

Tab navigator and swf loader issue

I have written two flex applications. Each of the
applications contains a tab navigator control. The direct children
of this tab navigator are canvases, sized to max.
i.e.
<mx:Canvas label="WhateverLabel" width="100%"
height="100%">

</mx:Canvas>
Everything works fine, the navigator, all its children and
grandchildren Application does exaclty as it should ... untill I
load it into another application using swf loader.
Our main application is a menu driven app that loads
individual swf files based on user selection. When either one of
these programs (using the tab navigator described above) is loaded,
I get a White Bar across the top of the screen, sized as the Tab
navigator width.
the white bar goes away as soon as the user interacts with
any control, but it still is there on application load. Here is a
picture of what I am speaking about.
http://members.cox.net/dragon.magik/whitebar.jpg
You can see the menu atop the screen as the base application.
You can then see the panel right beneath it, that is the main panel
of the application i am having problems with. The white bar, as you
see, is as wide as my tab navigator. The TN labels are positioned
correctly, but I don't know why I am getting the white bar. I am
having the exact same problem with tab navigators in two different
applications I load into this one control panel. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

There is an unsolved bug in adobe.
You have to solve it manually overriding the function:
package
     import mx.containers.TabNavigator;
     public class TabNavigatorFixed extends TabNavigator
         public function TabNavigatorFixed()
             super();
         override protected function commitSelectedIndex(newIndex:int):void
             super.commitSelectedIndex(newIndex);
             if(tabBar.numChildren > 0){
                 // Select the corresponding Tab in the Tab Bar (this fixes a bug in Flex)
                 tabBar.selectedIndex = newIndex;

Local swfs disappear on NTSC video desktop

Has anyone run into this? I am on a PPC Mac OS 10.4.11 and I
have two monitors, a Cinema Display and a NTSC monitor (Blackmagic
video card) that I also use as an extended desktop. I create local
swfs and play them with Flash Player and drag them over to the
desktop to view on the NTSC monitor. After I updated to CS3 I
notice now that any swf I publish and drag over to the NTSC
monitor/desktop immediately turns to white. I've tried all settings
and tested simple swfs with just simple graphics and it happens
with all of them. Is this a bug? My swfs that I created in CS2
display correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The "Load" would look for previously used (and saved) filter adjustments. Obviously, you don't have any.
In the Movie Settings window Filters dialog you'll find a three panel display. On the bottom (left) is the first frame of your file to use as a "preview" of the adjustments.
On the left side you'll see the "filters" that you can choose from. Click the small disclosure arrow to open the list of filters for that particular item and you'll see the first frame of the file "change" in the preview just below.
The right side of the window displays all of the adjustments.
If the window is too small to view drag the lower right corner to enlarge it. In the 3 part dialog window you'll see two small "dimples" that you can drag to adjust their size.

Trouble comunicating from flex to swf, when the swf is embedded

i'm a newbie to flex/air so i'm hoping there is going to be a
simple answer to this problem. it's caused a massive headache!
i have been using a swfLoader to load a swf, then triggering
function calls within the swf from flex by using the following in
the script tag of my mxml
var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(myMP3player.content);
mc.loadMP3Player("file:///"+path, artist, title);
where loadMP3Player is the function in the linked swf and
myMP3player is the id of the swfLoader.
this works great, no problems... but when i change the code
so that the swf is embedded, rather than loaded at runtime the code
above gives a
"ReferenceError:Error #1069 Property loadMP3Player not found"
error
when i try to trigger the function.
i have tried many different ways of referencing and embedding
the swf, all have the same result. i.e. swf loads fine and the flex
project compiles without errors, but i am unable to call the
function.
how do i reference the function in the swf when the swf is
embedded?
any help will be really appreciated.
btw: i need to embed the swf as i am distributing the
finished article as an air app.

Relief - well sort of.
I uninstalled the last Flash version (10.3 latest built that I downloaded a couple of days ago) on all my browsers.
Then I downloaded the older 10.2 and installed, and the problem was gone. I'm on MacOSX Lion, by the way.
So this must be a bug in the last flashplayer.
Cost me five hours and a bucket of sweat.
And from now on, I'll be pretty scared to give the flashplayer an update, that's a fact.
ottie

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