dynamic borders in AS3

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Hey guys, finally learning AS3 and migrating some of my code snippets over from AS2. I tried reproducing one of my most used bit of code - the dynamic border - in AS3, but I have run into a small problem.

var sw:int = stage.stageWidth -1;
var sh:int = stage.stageHeight -1;

var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
// change your color here
mc.graphics.lineStyle(1,000000);
mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,0);
mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,sh);
mc.graphics.lineTo(0,sh);
mc.graphics.lineTo(0,0);
addChild(mc); 

So this code works great in Firefox but fails miserably in IE6, Flash Player 9. So my question is does anybody have a workaround that works on IE6, Player 9? Huge thanks for taking the time to read.

*Also I'm sure someone will ask why does the border need to be added in AS - we get a lot of swfs from clients. We can insert code into swfs to fix little problems like this.

thanks again!

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Hey guys just an update on this issue. My "sw" and "sh" variables were coming back at with a value of -1. Someone on another board suggested the problem may be a delay on the stage initializing in IE. AKA 0 -1 = -1.

This sounded good and I tried to do a check to see if the stage had initialized before assigning the values to both variables - like so -

////// Stage delays to initialize in IE browsers in as3?

if (stage) {
    init();
} else {
    addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

}
function init(e:Event = null):void {
    var sw:int = stage.stageWidth -1;
    var sh:int = stage.stageHeight -1;
    
    var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
    printbox.text = sh.toString();
    removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
    // entry point
    mc.graphics.lineStyle(1,0x999999);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,0);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,sh);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(0,sh);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(0,0);
    addChild(mc);

    trace(sh);
} 

It still doesn't work in IE 6 flash player 9 however. Anybody have any ideas?

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Another update -- problem solved. Used a set a timer to force a different execution order.

var bugFix = function(){
    var sw:int = stage.stageWidth -1;
    var sh:int = stage.stageHeight -1;

    var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
// change your color here
    mc.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,0);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(sw,sh);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(0,sh);
    mc.graphics.lineTo(0,0);
    addChild(mc);
};

setTimeout(bugFix,1); 

randomly stumbled into this fix because of jBard's issue http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...96#post4214796

nice when things work out unexpectedly :-)