Comments on: Building Flash CS3 components http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/ Not another WordPress.com weblog :) Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:37:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Novian http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-940 Novian Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:16:52 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-940 Thanks for the putting the time in to create this tutorial. It was very helpful. One thing I forgot to do – which caused problems initially – was to save my .fla before I created my component. I walked through the tutorial again, saving my .fla first, then defined the component, and everything worked! Thanks again. Thanks for the putting the time in to create this tutorial. It was very helpful.

One thing I forgot to do – which caused problems initially – was to save my .fla before I created my component. I walked through the tutorial again, saving my .fla first, then defined the component, and everything worked!

Thanks again.

]]> By: Balaji http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-939 Balaji Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:38:05 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-939 really this tutorial is great and fantastic really this tutorial is great and fantastic

]]> By: rollingsj http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-930 rollingsj Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:43 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-930 I obviously spoke too soon. After some experimenting, I discovered that you have to put *something* in the base MovieClip for the example to work. Drawing a rectangle in the first frame of the component clip fixed these issues, and now it's up and running nicely. Thanks again for this quick (not 120 pages) tutorial. I obviously spoke too soon. After some experimenting, I discovered that you have to put *something* in the base MovieClip for the example to work. Drawing a rectangle in the first frame of the component clip fixed these issues, and now it’s up and running nicely.

Thanks again for this quick (not 120 pages) tutorial.

]]> By: rollingsj http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-929 rollingsj Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:53:51 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-929 Thanks for the article. This is my first go at switching to AS3 component dev from AS2 in Flash. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, but your example doesn't work for me. When I add the compiled swc to the stage, there is no preview, and it won't allow me to set the width and height. Setting these values via the Property Inspector in Flash simply resets them. Compiling the swf then generates this error: RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds. at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChildAt() at MyComponent/init() at MyComponent() at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren() at flash.display::Sprite() at flash.display::MovieClip() Thanks for the article. This is my first go at switching to AS3 component dev from AS2 in Flash. I’m not sure where I’m going wrong here, but your example doesn’t work for me.

When I add the compiled swc to the stage, there is no preview, and it won’t allow me to set the width and height. Setting these values via the Property Inspector in Flash simply resets them. Compiling the swf then generates this error:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChildAt()
at MyComponent/init()
at MyComponent()
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()

]]> By: Barliesque http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-928 Barliesque Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:50:16 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-928 Eureka! I’ve done it! After seemingly endless trial and error, I finally succeeded at making an SWC-based component entirely with Flash CS3, and my own custom UI, all written in AS3. I’ve just posted a tutorial along with the source: http://studio.barliesque.com/blog/2008/12/as3-component-custom-ui/ Thanks "smackme" for your article posted here, which gave me a start. Getting the control panel to work seamlessly with the component, however, gave me plenty to chew on. Please have a look and let me know what you think! Unfortunately, the I was unable to solve was the rotation bug described above. And, regarding another issue described above, it appears that components can not be tweened on the timeline. At least not in CS3... maybe in Flash CS4? Eureka! I’ve done it! After seemingly endless trial and error, I finally succeeded at making an SWC-based component entirely with Flash CS3, and my own custom UI, all written in AS3. I’ve just posted a tutorial along with the source:

http://studio.barliesque.com/blog/2008/12/as3-component-custom-ui/

Thanks “smackme” for your article posted here, which gave me a start. Getting the control panel to work seamlessly with the component, however, gave me plenty to chew on. Please have a look and let me know what you think!

Unfortunately, the I was unable to solve was the rotation bug described above. And, regarding another issue described above, it appears that components can not be tweened on the timeline. At least not in CS3… maybe in Flash CS4?

]]> By: kido.do http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-927 kido.do Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:04:30 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-927 Hi, Smackme Firstly thanks for this great article. I've made it run and it's really simple just follow your steps above. But is still got confuse with ComponentShim and it seems not to be simple to implement. Can you explain more about it? thanks again. Hi, Smackme

Firstly thanks for this great article. I’ve made it run and it’s really simple just follow your steps above.

But is still got confuse with ComponentShim and it seems not to be simple to implement. Can you explain more about it?

thanks again.

]]> By: Social Networking http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-925 Social Networking Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:29:45 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-925 Any chance of you posting up the source .as and .fla file for your test component? When I try to create a component with the source above in CS4, I get errors about "package" being invalid in ActionScript 2.0 - seems that I must be doing some tiny thing wrong, which is resulting in it trying to compile my source as AS2. Would be nice if you had the source .fla and .as up to troubleshoot issues like this. Thanks! Any chance of you posting up the source .as and .fla file for your test component? When I try to create a component with the source above in CS4, I get errors about “package” being invalid in ActionScript 2.0 – seems that I must be doing some tiny thing wrong, which is resulting in it trying to compile my source as AS2.

Would be nice if you had the source .fla and .as up to troubleshoot issues like this. Thanks!

]]> By: Chetan Sachdev http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-923 Chetan Sachdev Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:57:01 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-923 @smackme Sorry, for my late reply. I get it rolling. Do you have any suggestion regarding which class to extend UIComponent, Sprite or MovieClip. Thank You @smackme
Sorry, for my late reply. I get it rolling. Do you have any suggestion regarding which class to extend UIComponent, Sprite or MovieClip.

Thank You

]]> By: Passiday http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-922 Passiday Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:33:55 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-922 Great tutorial, thanks! Started to play with CS3 Fl components just yesterday. It is interesting that Adobe has fixed the way live preview behaves in develop-time, when the component is rotated: now the w and h values passed to setSize method are correct (NOT the width and height of the rotated bounding box of the component, but the width and height of the component regardless of the rotation). However, in runtime it's all the same story, the w an h values are the bad-old-buggy ones. Just try it using your sample component - put it on stage, rotate, inspect the dev-time dimensions, then preview it in runtime. Is it just me, who thinks that the components should be normally rotateable via help of transform tool? Of course, I can put the rotation as a component parameter, but then I am forced to set also the w and h parameters, otherwise scaling it with the helkp of transform tool will mess it all up. Great tutorial, thanks!

Started to play with CS3 Fl components just yesterday. It is interesting that Adobe has fixed the way live preview behaves in develop-time, when the component is rotated: now the w and h values passed to setSize method are correct (NOT the width and height of the rotated bounding box of the component, but the width and height of the component regardless of the rotation).

However, in runtime it’s all the same story, the w an h values are the bad-old-buggy ones. Just try it using your sample component – put it on stage, rotate, inspect the dev-time dimensions, then preview it in runtime. Is it just me, who thinks that the components should be normally rotateable via help of transform tool? Of course, I can put the rotation as a component parameter, but then I am forced to set also the w and h parameters, otherwise scaling it with the helkp of transform tool will mess it all up.

]]> By: smackme http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-919 smackme Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:44:48 +0000 http://flexion.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/building-flash-cs3-components/#comment-919 Where do the components appear? In the library? Where do the components appear? In the library?

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