Flash components and the properties inspector

Question

Don't know if any of you have had experience in creating
components that
can have properties set using the properties inspector or
not, but here
we go.
I have several components which all have a 'data' property
that is an
Object in which a developer can store arbitrary data.
I have set this up in the component so that it will display
in the
properties inspector, thusly:
[Inspectable(name="Data")]
private var _data:Object;
Now, it does indeed appear in the inspector, but when I click
on the
field it brings up a box which then doesn't allow me to enter
any data
(see screenshot:
http://www.moloko.f2s.com/filetransfer/componentParams.png)
However, if I right-click on the symbol in the library, go to
Component
Definition, then click on the Data property in the Value
column, it
brings up a box that's a little bit more what I was expecting
in that it
contains the '+' and '-' buttons to allow me to add/delete
data, and
also some up/down arrows to allow me to move the data around
in the list
(see screenshot:
http://www.moloko.f2s.com/filetransfer/componentDefinition.png)
Anyone know what's going on with this? Is this a bug in the
Flash IDE or
am I doing something wrong??
MOLOKO
Macromedia Certified Flash MX 2004 Developer
Macromedia Certified Flash MX Developer
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Answer 1

The flashComponents are standard AS2 components, and you can look up their APIs in the Flash documentation.  Here is the button docs:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00001977.html#3654189
Looking at that, there is a getStyle() method, and I just tested it out:
put sprite(1).getStyle("borderStyle")
-- "inset"
put sprite(1).getStyle("fontFamily")
-- "_sans"
put sprite(1).getStyle("color")
-- 734012.0000
I'm not real sure what that means (probably the hex color converted to a float), but you can change the color like this:
sprite(1).setStyle("color","red")
And here is a page that lists all the styles that are defined:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00001973.html#3136306