Changing Flash CS3 Interface colors

The interface on my Windows XP install of Flash CS3 has an
odd pink color that makes seeing the edge of the stage difficult
for me. I can change the stage color but I prefer white. Is there
any way to set the color behind the stage to a more reasonable gray
or such?
BTW, I've tried changing the Windows theme without
luck.

Flash used to be a designers tool but as time has progressed,
not only are we seeing Flash become more of a RIA tool (although
Flex still takes the cake there), there is also a clear division
now between designers and developers in studios.
AS3s learning curve is high, don't get me wrong but I think
the important thing here is that Adobe is separating
design/development as well. Let the designers do what they do and
the developers do their part.
In smaller studios where a designer may be responsible for
also adding in the interaction, this can prove difficult but it
isn't impossible.
Remember also that just because AS3 is here doesn't mean
that you have to use it. Adobe is still providing AS2 Fla as an
option when creating a new file and it still supports AS2 coding. I
know A LOT of people that are still using AS2 and aren't planning a
change until mid-08 or later it will probably be that way for most.
The real beauty in AS3 is the object oriented approach it
takes to development (the gui for coding still sucks and I
personally use FlashDevelop) and really allows for almost all
interaction be created with code. Like I said before, this allows
designers to remove themselves from the code and save their time
for their primary role.

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Hi,
There is great and easy way to create flash based component
in flash cs3 using action script 3.0.
I am going to make a simple My button component which will
behave likely same as flash native button component.
You can modify this according your requirement this is just
you give an idea about how we can go for creating a component in
flash cs3.
Follow these steps…
1. Create a fla file and save this file with any name
2. Create a movieClip and draw a rectangle shape on first
frame.
3. Right click on movieclip in library, select linkage
4. Provide class name in text field area [MyButton] (you can
use any name here which should matched with your class)
5. Click Ok button
6. Write class [MyButton]
(you can copy and use this)
* author @ sanjeev rajput
* [email protected]
* A flash action script 3.0 based component without extending
UIComponent class
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import fl.motion.Color;
public class MyButton extends Sprite{
private var _tf:TextField;
private var _Label:String="My Button";
private var _bgColor:uint=0xCCCCCC;
private var _rollOverColor:uint=0xFFCCCC;
private var _borderColor:uint=0x000000;
private var _borderThickness:int=1;
private var _width:Number = 100;
private var _height:Number =100;
private var _background:Sprite;
public function MyButton() {
init();
createChildren();
initEventListeners();
draw();
//-------------property section [Start]
[Inspectable]
public function set Label(lbl:String){
_Label=lbl;
draw();
public function get Label(){
return _Label
[Inspectable]
public function set bgColor(color:uint):void{
_bgColor=color;
draw();
[Inspectable]
public function set borderColor(color:uint):void{
_borderColor=color;
draw();
[Inspectable]
public function set borderThickness(thickness:int):void{
_borderThickness=thickness;
[Inspectable]
public function set rollOverColor(color:uint):void{
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//-------------property section [End]
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7. Now right click again on your movieclip in library and
select component definition.
8. In class name text field provide same class name
[MyButton]
9. Click on ok button
10. Right click again on movieClip in library and select
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Lt.CYX[UGA] wrote:
> if anyone is using Flash CS3, try creating a flash
movie, using the FLVPlayer
> component to play an flv video and make it an executable
projector. Run it
> fullscreen and watch how the screen just stays black
when the video should
> appear. If you stay windowed, it works fine.
>
>
steps to reproduce:
> 1. create flash movie
> 2. put an FLVPlayer component on a frame that's not the
first (for testing
> purposes)
> 3. before the projector reaches the frame with the
FLVPlayer component, change
> it to fullscreen (by script or CTRL+F)
>
>
observed behaviour:
> not only the video doesn't play, but the whole screen is
black until the
> player goes back to windowed mode
>
>
expected behaviour:
> video should play
>
>
remarks:
> if you skip step 3, video plays correctly
>
Works just fine.
Made new movie, on frame 2 places Full screen action, on
frame 5 placed video component
and stop(); action attached to frame. Projector pops large
following by video playing
just fine.
I tried variety, first frame, many frames, all on one. Not
able to reproduce your problem.
Works on first go.
Best Regards
Urami
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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