Can't override Button component methods

Question

I've got a custom class that extends the Button UIComponent. I'm trying to override the drawEmphasized() function and a few public get/set functions. I get "1020: Method marked override must override another method." for each thing I try to override. The SWF that uses the custom button will compile and work, but I don't know if the failure is creating some of the strange behavior I see. The errors appear when I drag a component onstage, or save the FLA. This seems related: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13877  but I don't know, I can't understand the fix. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

I found a workaround. Do not use the same class for Component Definition. Make a different class for use as a Component Definition. Make sure the same Inspectable tag and var declaration are in each class. So for the above extended button class, if you wanted to add a "myvar" inspectable variable, the code would be in another class as follows.
package
    import fl.controls.Button;
    public class testButtonDEF extends Button 
[Inspectable(name="myvar", variable="myvar", type="String", defaultValue="")]
public var myvar:String = "";
Also see my related thread about Inspectable properties: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/453659