While producing component based applications it became very tiring to have to repeat the same process to apply styles to individual or groups of components while not resorting to using _global.styles.componentClassName and ‘tarring with the same brush’ so to speak. If you do this it can be a real pain to apply a clean variant […]
I realised last night (by ‘realised’ I mean someone pointed out - Stefan :P). That I hadn’t posted up an actual component based on my earlier post about adding rollOver and rollOut events to the Button component.
So to rectify this I have uploaded the MXP to the downloads section so those of you who would […]
Well I thought my articles covering off sizing a component in the IDE were at an end. That was until I got a comment from Justin Levi regarding resizing a component via the component inspector panel, he posed the following:
Great examples. Have you ever found a way to size the component container based on component […]
Well I sure most of the regulars at the London MMUG already know about this, but for those who don’t, and those who have never attended the monthly meeting. I will be giving a talk on developing Flash 8 components at this months London MMUG (Thursday April 20th).
As my blurb goes, if you use […]
I have to thank Charlie Skinner in the office for blowing his stack over this one the other day :P - Not very good finding a ‘feature’ like this in Flash 8 (and I’ll assume MX2004), when trying to learn about component development in AS2.0.
It appears there is a minor inconsistancy with the amount of […]
I managed to get time last night to add in a few more features to the File Transfer Connector. A couple of them only came to me after I had posted the original MXP up. I’ve refreshed the MXP and uploaded a new version to the server for those interested in downloading it.
The File Transfer […]
I’ve been a bit tied up recently what with work and trying to get my own stuff sorted. So I’m very proud to announce the release of my FileTransferConnector component. This is a Flash 8 base level component to allow the uploading and downloading of files from a server to a users machine.
Note this […]
How to dynamically size some assets but not all in a component
I saw Tony MacDonell over at Teknision was talking about some of the foibles of creating components in Flash. Then John laPlante commented about the same thing in response to my articles on component development and I have to say I know where they are both coming from. I’ve been developing components for Flash MX2004, […]
How to resize a component properly