AS2 Component kludging…

Things that make you go errrr!?!

AS3 Flex 2 Simple component

So after playing with AS3 I thought I’d turn my attention to creating, or attempting to create, an AS3 / Flex component. So without further ado I unveil my SimpleButtonComponent (and it is just that LOL).
This is the Flex MXML.
[XML]< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

[/XML]
The following code sets my custom namespace. This is the classpath to [...]

New FlashComponents mailing list

OK, so there was a mailing list for developers interested in Flash component development a while back but it appears to have slipped silently into the virtual ooze. So I thought it might be cool to host one at FlashGen.Com instead, so if you are interested in component development head over here: FlashComponents-L and sign [...]

Macromedia release Flash Media Server 2

FMS2 finally hits the shelves

LozengeButton in AS3

OK, so I grabbed a few minutes over lunch today to try a few button tests just to see what I could knock together without having to read too much documentation :P
Well here are the results:
[actionscript]package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import com.flashgen.examples.LozengeButton;
[SWF(width="100", height="50", backgroundColor="#DFEEEF")]
public class AS3LozengeButton extends MovieClip
{
private var _button :LozengeButton;
// This it the default constructor for this ‘main’ [...]