Skinning Flash CS3 component

I posted this in General but haven't gotten a reply, and now
I'm beginning to wonder if this must be accomplised with
ActionScript.
It's great that you can double click a component, open it up,
and put your own artwork right in there and set the 9-slice scaling
guides so it behaves properly. Lightyears better than trying to
skin in any previous version of Flash.
But, the rendered SWF does not seem to respect my artwork
dimensions. For instance, I have a Slider component for which the
default track is about 3px tall. I have my own artwork which is
about 6px tall. While I can put my artwork in the skin and it
scales perfectly, it squashes it down to 3px tall when rendered.
Likewise, my 9x12 thumb gets scaled when rendered to 13x13(which is
the default skin's thumb size) when rendered. Although the graphics
appear the right size in Flash authoring, it appears to get scaled
at runtime.
How do I avoid this? How do I define the base dimensions for
the skin graphics?
Thanks for any advice.
Post in General forum:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=1324684

Changing the avatar size doesn't seem to have any affect. Do
you know what the Avatar is for? It appears to be a bounding box of
some sort, but resizing it doesn't seem to change anything.
Actually, I notice that if I open the avatar, it says it is
22x80, although the scaled version in the Slider is 3x80. It seems
to be some sort of shared component. If I resize the contents of
the avatar, all my buttons change, but the sliders don't actually
change. Sadly, it seems like "3" is a hard coded value somewhere in
the source. Blah.

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"GuinnessIsGoodness" <[email protected]>
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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?
>
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> it
> first"?
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* author @ sanjeev rajput
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> 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.
>
>
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> purposes)
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>
>
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>
>
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>
>
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>
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