Ini Flash component properties on beginSprite event

Question

Hi,
I spend some time searching the web for a solution to
initialize Flash components (buttons, input text, list, tree, and
so on) properties on the beginSprite Director’s event and I
couldn’t find any practical solution then I‘d like to
share with you an easy trick I’ve found.
With this little script you can have just one Flash member on
your cast and put on the stage any number of instances of it and
set its properties independently or you can call any handler that
fills data on components like List, Tree or Data Grid on the
beginSprite event.
Works fine and it’s much more efficient than the
enterFrame or exitFrame solutions out there, on this stepFrame is
played once instead every application loop like enterFrame and
exitFrame, so no processor penalties.
I hope this can help to anyone who needs it.

Answer 1

I specifically asked you for a file with a single component and a script attached that demonstrated what you were reporting. I asked for this so that I didn't have to waste time wading through extraneous code trying to figure out what was at issue.
Your problem is that when you set the width, the height drops to zero. I don't know why. In a simple test case with a single component and a behavior attached that sets the sprite.width in the #beginSprite handler this doesn't happen - the width changes and the (original) height is maintained. Perhaps it's a consequence of makeScriptedSprite() - possibly because there is no sprite in place to start with, and therefore no original height to maintain.
Here is your script "SetStaticProp" with my amendments:
property pMyLinkInfo
property pSetMyFlashProps
property mySprite
on new me, iNum, bSetProps, lInfo
  mySprite = sprite(iNum)
  pSetMyFlashProps = bSetProps
  pMyLinkInfo = lInfo
  return me
end
on endSprite me
  mySprite = VOID
end
on exitFrame me
  if pSetMyFlashProps = 1 then
    mySprite.static = not (pMyLinkInfo.enabled)
    mySprite.label = pMyLinkInfo.name
    tHeight = mySprite.height
    mySprite.width = 160
    mySprite.height = tHeight
    pSetMyFlashProps = 0
  end if
end
and here is the amended fragment from your "Generate Link Instance" parent script:
  --****Next Line causes CheckBox to go missing********
  --  sprite(CheckBoxSnum).width = 160
  myScript = script("SetStaticProp").new( CheckBoxSnum, 1, duplicate(myInfo) )
  sprite(CheckBoxSnum).scriptInstanceList.add(myScript)
  gItemSelectionList.add(myInfo)