Well in fact, it is… or is it not ? depends on how you see it.
The trouble
If using masks or objects that have their “visible” property on true but “alpha” at 0.0, it is taken into account into the calculation of the bounding rectangle. Even objects that are outside of the masked area are added to it.
The solution(s)

During my search, I found a post from David Barlia: http://studio.barliesque.com/blog/2008/10/the-trouble-with-getbounds/. He uses a custom technique to approximately calculate the bounding area of a DisplayObject.

In that same post, someone proposed to use BitmapData …

Here is the “configuration”:

One main movie that loads external movies.
Externals movies that have stop() functions on their timeline.

When played alone, the external movies run perfectly. The stop() functions work well and everything’s fine.
But when loaded into the main movieclip, all the stop() functions stop working… (well in a way they work “too well”)
Reason:
Conflicting classes… (I suppose)
My external movies have a base class, let’s call it “ExternalMcBaseClass”.
In my main movie, I declare that my external movies are of the type of “ExternalMcBaseClass”. When I specify their type as a simple “MovieClip”, …

New official website for Jacques Dutronc. If you don’t know who Jacques Dutronc is, then check this link.
Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris) is a French singer, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since March 30, 1981, and the two have a son, (jazz guitarist Thomas Dutronc, born 1973).
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Dutronc

Not really much to say. For people like me, I mean people who expect to see “wow” websites all the time, this one will definitely not be one of them. But… there are actually …

New project for a Belgian design agency : Eye-Design. Nothing really fancy here except for the navigation system and the design which I think is really nice and sober.
The idea is simple, every section is contained in a circle. When you click on it, it smoothly gets bigger till it takes the size of the screen, then the section contained in it appears.
The system allows you to put as many sections inside a section and thus have as many sub-sections as you want. You even can put a section inside …

RabbitTween is a professional transition / tween engine written in ActionScript 3 for Flash.
It is fast, easy to use and written in an object oriented way and so easily customizable (code is commented)
If you want to know the “story” behind the RabbitTween, please follow this link.
RabbitTweenMax is making its apparition in the set. It allows to tween filters and much more coming soon.
Check out the new demo showing what you can actually do with RabbitTween and RabbitTweenMax.