RTS Hud, input, markers and StageAlign?

[FTC]

Hi,

I am planning a hud for my rts project and I have a few questions regarding the unreal- and actionscript interfaces.

The first problem regards player input. For example:
Should I leave rectangle selection to unrealscript and make flash display it? (No direct input for flash)
Or should I let actionscript notify the udk once a selection was made in flash? (Flash handles mouse input)
Same goes for things like setting targets, scrolling the map, etc.. On the one hand I think unrealscript's PlayerInput should handle the input, but not using flash on the other hand leaves me with a feeling of wasted potential/processing time.

The second question concerns unit icons: Depending on the selection of units I want to display certain icons and stats (Life, Energy) above a unit. For every selected and displayed unit, I need to add a movie clip to the stage and update its position everytime the units' screen position changes. The resource friendliest way (I think) is keeping an unrealscirpt array of on-screen units and only adding or deleting movie clips from flash when the contents of the array changes. I only call actionscript to update the screenposition of existing movieclips every tick or so. Does this make sense?
Or can I just delete all and create new movieclips every tick? How much impact on performance would that have (I am thinking about a couple hundrets of units)? The RTS Starterkit uses the canvas and simply redraws unit markers every frame, but obviously flash handles things differently.
Is there maybe a third option I don't know about?

greetings
FTC

[FTC]

Ok I now let flash handle the mouse interaction and have the markers in an array to only update necessary things.

But I have one question, when resizing the window the stage does not really does what it should:

stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, OnResize); 
function OnResize(event:Event):void 
{
	stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL;
	stage.align = StageAlign.BOTTOM_LEFT;
}

However the stage is just centered within the udk window, not on the bottom left.

Another thing is, that I have to convert the actionscript mouse coordinates into udk screen coordinates. I have done some research, but since I use AS 3 I cannot use:

Stage["visibleRect"].width

What is the equivalent for ScaleForm 4.0?

greetings
FTC

[FTC]

I found it:

Extensions.visibleRect

However, I ask myself why this is documented in here?
http://gameware.autodesk.com/documen...extensions.pdf

I still have problems with the StageAlign since it does not do anything...

greetings
FTC