I haven't found much on the web about this...

Issue:

Has anyone experienced an issue where a custom class extending a library MovieClip instantiated on stage has an initial scaleY value of 0, but scaleX is 1?

example:

- class MovieClipAndThenSome extends
- class MovieClipPlus extends class FL_MCFromLibrary
- class FL_MCFromLibrary is generated by flash when not found in the classpath (it is the linkage name of a library movie clip in flash) and extends MovieClip

//as3 example..

var newCustomMC:MovieClipAndThenSome = stage.addChild(new MovieClipAndThenSome());

trace(" >> scaleX: " + newCustomMC.scaleX); // output: >> scaleX: 1
trace(" >> scaleY: " + newCustomMC.scaleY);// output: >> scaleY: 0


is this a known flash bug?

solution:

an obvious workaround... call this line after object is added to stage..

this.scaleY = this.scaleX = 1;