AS3: Dynamic Textfield + Buttonmode = fail

Just in case this annoys you like too:

If you have a Sprite or Movieclip that contains a dynamic textfield and

mc_name.buttonMode = true;

doesn’t work, simply add

mc_name.mouseChildren = false;

and voila, the cursor transforms into the hand again.

Flash and Google

For a while now Google is capable of indexing Flash-sites which led to a way better index ranking. I’m not entirely sure how the crawling works, however it seems that for texts it uses simple copy and paste: All flash-sites I designed where I set the textfields to selectable get indexed fully with text excerpts just like “normal” websites, whereas those where I had non-selectable textfields only get shown with minimal information.

This works with both static as well as dynamic texts from xml-files or databases.