How to build a custom Flash CS3 component

I just googled in the hope to find some resources about how
to build custom Flash CS3 components, but nothing turned up. I also
couldn't find any info on Adobe's Flash developers center.
Do you know of any resource that sheds some light on this
subject?
If not then I'll have to try to find my way around custom
components by learning from the ones that came with Flash CS3 I
guess.

Flash CS3 has been out for a few weeks. At this point, your
best bet is Amazon books or Barnes & Noble. I've read a few
books that should shed light on the subject. Otherwise, you'll need
to wait a few more weeks while people start hashing it out and
posting it to blogs and other sites.

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Comunication and events: Flex Builder 2 with Flash CS3

Hey hello...well, my question is: how can i comunicate Flex
Builder 2 with Flash CS3?
this is my code on Flex Builder 2:
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.*;
import mx.events.*;
public function CargaCompleta(e:Event):void
try
e.target.content.objeto_salida.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,uno);
catch(er:Error) { Alert.show(er.message,"Error"); }
public function uno(e:Event):void
try
s1.content["objeto_salida"].removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,s1.content["Finaliza"]);
s1.source = null;
s1.source = "recursos/reactivos/208M-1R.swf";
catch(er:Error) { Alert.show(er.message,"Error"); }
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:SWFLoader id="s1" width="278" height="251"
complete="CargaCompleta(event)"
source="recursos/interactivos/208M-1I.swf">
</mx:SWFLoader>
and when it change from one file to another, on the event
"Complete" for the SWFLodar, an error happend
TypeError: Error #1009: No se puede acceder a una propiedad o
a un método de una referencia a un objeto nulo.
at 208M_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Hope somebody can help me...for your time thanks...

"Jorge EdOardo" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gfcfcr$9s2$[email protected]..
> Hey hello...well, my question is: how can i comunicate
Flex Builder 2 with
> Flash CS3?
>
> this is my code on Flex Builder 2:
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> import mx.controls.*;
> import mx.events.*;
> public function CargaCompleta(e:Event):void
> {
> try
> {
>
e.target.content.objeto_salida.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,uno);
> }
> catch(er:Error) { Alert.show(er.message,"Error"); }
> }
> public function uno(e:Event):void
> {
> try
> {
>
>
s1.content["objeto_salida"].removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,s1.content["Fin
> aliza"]);
> s1.source = null;
> s1.source = "recursos/reactivos/208M-1R.swf";
> }
> catch(er:Error) { Alert.show(er.message,"Error"); }
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
> <mx:SWFLoader id="s1" width="278" height="251"
> complete="CargaCompleta(event)"
> source="recursos/interactivos/208M-1I.swf">
> </mx:SWFLoader>
>
> and when it change from one file to another, on the
event "Complete" for
> the
> SWFLodar, an error happend
>
> TypeError: Error #1009: No se puede acceder a una
propiedad o a un m?todo
> de
> una referencia a un objeto nulo.
> at 208M_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
>
> Hope somebody can help me...for your time thanks...
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2007/04/using_actionscr_1.html

Problem: Custom Flash Professional Component

Hi,
I just installed a copy of Flash Builder 4.5, and am attempting to create a custom "flash professional component" in the Design mode of an mxml project. The documentations mentioned that in order to create this component, I have to press on the 'Create in Flash Professional' button in the properties window.
Here's the problem: clicking on the button brings up a window to name the component, then clicking 'create' brings up Flash Pro, but that's about it. I was told an edit window will show up in Flash Pro, but it doesn't happen. Flash Pro just initializes into the start page and does nothing else.
Am I doing anything wrong? Please help, thanks in advance!

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I want to build a custom flash player for my desktop

I want to build a custom flash player for my desktop, using C# and Visual Studio 2008. Where do I start? I just want a real simple one to play swf files. Play, stop, loop, full screen, normal size. I'll start there. Where do I go? I've searched the web for an answer, and found several example projects that don't compile, or are incomplete. It's very frustrating. This shouldn't be that difficult.

I think you started the right way - looking for example programs.
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This is one way of developing applications, the other way is starting from scratch.

Creating flash cs3 component

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{
_rollOverColor=color;
//-------------property section [End]
private function init():void {
trace('welcome');
_width = width;
_height = height;
scaleX = 1;
scaleY = 1;
removeChildAt(0);
private function initEventListeners():void{
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, eventHandler);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, eventHandler);
private function eventHandler(event:Event):void{
if(event.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER){
toggleColor(_rollOverColor);
if(event.type == MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT){
toggleColor(_bgColor)
private function createChildren():void {
_background = new Sprite();
_tf = new TextField();
_tf.autoSize = "center";
_tf.selectable=false;
addChild(_background);
addChild(_tf);
protected function draw():void {
toggleColor(_bgColor);
_tf.text = _Label;
_tf.x = Math.floor((_width - _tf.width)/2);
_tf.y = Math.floor((_height - _tf.height)/2);
//width = _tf.width;
private function toggleColor(color:uint):void{
_background.graphics.clear();
_background.graphics.beginFill(color, 1);
_background.graphics.lineStyle(_borderThickness,
_borderColor, 1);
_background.graphics.drawRoundRect(0, 0, _width, _height,
10, 10);
_background.graphics.endFill();
public function setSize(w:Number, h:Number):void {
_width = w;
_height = h;
draw();
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
Export SWC file.
11. Same your exported SWC file in (For window only)
[c:\Documents and Settings\$user\Local Settings\Application
Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\Commands\
12. Now just open another new flash file open component
panel/window reload component you will your component in component
panel with MyButton name.
13. Drag your custom component on stage provide inputs form
property window and text it.
Enjoy!

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...
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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Flash CS3 Component Help?

I have a menu component I've created in Flash CS3. I'm
running into a small problem. Currently, in Flash, I create an
array in the first frame of the movie and then assign a
"menu_items" property (an array) on my menu object as that array.
The array is an array of specialized menu item objects that is
defined in a separate class. In Flex, I would like to do this:
<mxml:macMenu>
<mxml:macMenuItem image="btn1.png" click="{clickHandler}"
/>
<mxml:macMenuItem image="btn2.png" click="{clickHandler}"
/>
.....etc
</mxml:macMenu>
I'm not quite sure how I can get my object to realize the
children should be part of the array inside of macMenu called
"menu_item" and at the same time make sure they are an instance of
my menu item class.
I have posted the full AS3/Flash CS3 source of my menu at
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Hi Rajesh,
I've seen your query all over the internet, so I should warn you I don't believe it's possible to disable a List Item.
For that you should use Josh Tynjala's open source Advanced List (http://code.google.com/p/flextoolbox/downloads/list).
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Filipe.

Use Flash CS3 component in Flex

As a bit of a n00b, this may be a stupid question...
If I were to get a component made for use with "Flash CS3",
once it's compiled to a swf & fla, is it entirely usable in
Flex [Builder] 3 ? Say I didn't want to re-skin it, and it was
fully programable via AS?
Is this a "it depends"? Is it a "absolutely, you just need
CS3 to compile it first"?
Thanks in advance,
AJ

"GuinnessIsGoodness" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:gbe131$c20$[email protected]..
> As a bit of a n00b, this may be a stupid question...
>
> If I were to get a component made for use with "Flash
CS3", once it's
> compiled
> to a swf & fla, is it entirely usable in Flex
[Builder] 3 ? Say I didn't
> want
> to re-skin it, and it was fully programable via AS?
>
> Is this a "it depends"? Is it a "absolutely, you just
need CS3 to compile
> it
> first"?
I think you need to either use it as an as file or compile it
as a swc,
unless you want to load it into a swfloader.
HTH;
Amy

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URGENT: How to build composite custom component with a valuechangelistener?

Hi there!
I already posted regarding this issue before but unfortunately there wasn't any answer. But I don't think what I am trying to achieve is something unusual.
I am trying to build a composite custom component, that consists of some UISelectOne components and some UIInputText fields. Now I need to fill the combo boxes depending on the selected values of the other boxes. Therefore I added a value change listener. But when it fires I get an index out of bounds exception on the page.
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I posted this in General but haven't gotten a reply, and now
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How do I avoid this? How do I define the base dimensions for
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Thanks for any advice.
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=1324684

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I currently have a podcast running through blogspot.com, I
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my campus ministry using Dreamweaver CS3, and I want to import, or
build my Podcast into my Dreamweaver site....how do I do it? The
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let me start out by saying today is my first day of scripting
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i have been searching for this for hours and there are
solutions with flash mx and actionscript 2.0 but i would like to
see how to do this in as3.
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information this in Flahs Help>Actionscript>Actionscript
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i want to build a datagrid that shows a picture and underneath it a name.
the problem is i dont want to see all of the pictures, but all the pictures that have certain requirements, so i cant just make one movie clip that includes all the pictures and names.
so my question is how do i build a movie clip that contains photo and text?.

You do not create movieclips on the timeline using code, though you can create them and add them as children of something that has been manually placed in the timeline.
To create a MovieClip using code you use:
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If you need to add an image, then however you intend to acquire the image, after it has been acquired, you add it to the MovieClip using:
    mc.addChild(img);
where img is the instance of whatever form of object the image takes (Bitmap, Loader)
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Hi , I have an array cluster that contain value, time, time tol+ and time tol-, these values should make a waveform as attached to this email. Could you please help me to implement this in LabVIEW .
In the attached picture.
value 1: 3
Time 1: 2
Tol+ = 0.5
Tol -=0.5
value 2: 3.5
Time 1: 5
Tol+ = 1
Tol -=1
Thanks
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Hi tintin,
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GerdW
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Hello Friends,
I am working in Flash Cs3.
I am having a List component in my application.
I added 10 items into my list component. Now out of those 10 items, i want to disable particular list items like Item 4, Item 8, Item 9. How to do this using flash cs3 or flash 8.0.
Item1   -- Enabled state
Item2   -- Enabled state
Item3   -- Enabled state
Item4   -- Disabled state
Item5   -- Enabled state
Item6   -- Enabled state
Item7   -- Enabled state
Item8   -- Disabled state
Item9   -- Disabled state
Item10 -- Enabled state
Any suggestions/ideas would be really appreciated.
Regards,
Rajesh

Hello Friends,
I got a partial solution for this. Now i can able to disable a particular list item using flash cs3. I achived this. But it was happening only after clicking the item values....
But i need in a diff way like, as soon as you run the flash file it has to disable. how is this possible in flash cs3.
this is the code :
    import fl.controls.List;
    import fl.controls.listClasses.CellRenderer;
    import fl.controls.listClasses.ListData;
    import fl.events.ListEvent;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.text.TextField;
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        var sampleItem2:Object = { label:"Mary Bravo" };
        var sampleItem3:Object = { label:"Trevor Gamma" };
        var sampleItem4:Object = { label:"Susan Delta" };
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ListDataExample()
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            tf.y = 125;
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            myList.addItem(sampleItem2);
            myList.addItem(sampleItem3);
            myList.addItem(sampleItem4);
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         function listItemSelected(e:ListEvent):void {
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   if(cr.listData.row == 2) {
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waiting for your replies.
Regards,
Rajesh

How to build a custom Flash CS3 component

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