Next, click the small dot beneath the padlock icon (see 2 in the image below). The layer will now become locked, which prevents you from accidentally inserting content inside it. Make this a habit — I always lock the layers which I don't use at the moment.
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Add the scrollpane component to the stage by selecting window > component > user interface then drag the scrollpane component onto the stage. Using the selection tool (v), select the scrollpane components parameter tab and change the content path to “images”. |
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Answer Internet Explorer 3.0 can automatically install a new version of the Flash Player if the version installed on your computer is out of date. This is done by adding "#version=1,1,0,0" to the end of the CODEBASE tag where 1,1,0,0 is the minimum version of the player needed to display the page properly. |
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Dragging the component into a FLA file also imports all the Library symbols used by the component into the FLA file's Library, and those symbols are editable as well. The primary reason to make components FLA-based is to include the Library symbols that are used to skin the component as editable. The User Interface components included with Flash CS3 are all FLA-based components for this reason. |
The whole work will be developed in the Scene and in a single frame.
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After completing the installation of the Extension Manager, and successfully setting up the .mpx loader file, you should be able to see the loader component from the drop-down menu of the Components (Go to Windows>Components, or press ctrl F7)
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With button "Text 1" selected hit the F9 key or Windows -> Development panels -> Actions. Make sure the button is selected and not the timeline and enter the following code:
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Fortunately Flash has introduced the concept of components, which allows you to create a UI element that can be dropped onto a Flash application and edited just like you would a button or a combo box. It removed the need to know anything about ActionScript because all the properties can be accessed and modified by the graphical editor.
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Let's begin with the easy part: download the Flash Remoting components from Macromedia site. This will install the needed classes (basically NetServices) and the Flash Remoting Component. This component allows to directly connecting to Remoting whit out the need of much more scripting. |
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So, open flash and create a new flash movie. |
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The new Flash MX charting components are a great way to create simple charts very quickly. They are even more useful when they can load data from an external source, such as an XML file. |
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
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There are many different ways to load content dynamically into the Flash player. Loading external content to Flash makes updating the content much faster as you will not have to go back to the FLA file each time you want to update your website. This tutorial will teach you one of the easiest methods to load external SWF files and images into the Flash movie, we will use the ready-made Loader Component to load an external JPEG file into our movie at run time.
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Start off by opening your Library (Ctrl+L) and then drag and copy of the FLVPlayback Component onto the stage.
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04 Jan 2008 Create a simple fading slideshow using the SWX Flickr API |
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Figure 4.1: Component Definition Panel (with no parameters)
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Insert frame to all layers in the frame 125. Then add another layer and rename it to logo. Add your logo and convert it to a movie clip. Then add another FlashEff component linked to the logo movie clip and go to the FlashEff panel. Select the Show Tab and set a pattern to make the logo appear in the screen. I used FES3DCamSquareFocus with the default settings. Then just save and test the movie. |
We now have all the information we need to attach our component dynamically onto the stage with actionscript, there is just one more thing we need to know and that is the 'Linkage Identifier' for the component symbol. To find this out, you need to select the component symbol in your library again, in this example the symbol name is 'ScrollBar' and as i said previously, it is located in the 'Flash UI Components' folder. You then need to right-click and choose 'Linkage' from the menu. Look in the 'Identifier' field and you will see a string, which we will be needing in a few moments, in this example, it should say 'FScrollBarSymbol' this 'Linkage Identifier' is based upon standards/best practices which Macromedia are trying to preach/set. |
Click here to download all the source files for this tutorial http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/?page_id=85
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Compatibility: Flash 8/MX04 and ActionScript 2 only With Flash 8 or Flash MX04 you will need to use ActionScript 2 as the Component script will not work in ActionScript 1. This is usually fine but very occasionally causes problems with other scripts that you may want to use in your Flash file. In which case you will need to update the older ActionScript to AS2.
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Free Flash Tutorial
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