Comments on: Flash CS3 Components

By: Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:52:22 +0000

Do you have examples of this to use. I want to style my list in AS3 and it is giving me hell.

thanks in advance.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:38:59 +0000

At a base size of 17kb custom components still seem to be too big to use in rich media banners. I wonder how all that extra space is actually being used.

By: sketchbookgames

sketchbookgames — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:04:25 +0000

tetraktys: i believe this is the blog you were talking about
http://www.flexiblefactory.co.uk/flexible/?p=16#comment-2762
that blog actually links to this page ;)

surprised that i haven’t found any recent documentation, like late 2008 or 2009. since i don’t feel that all the questions have been answered by these 2007 documentations. plus there have been flash updates and i think a full update of jsfl, which is used to help out in the other blog. I wonder if components are getting swept under the rug again.

By: Brian Ferris

Brian Ferris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:43:24 +0000

Roland wrote:

>It’s sad that Adobe has to “kill off” a well working product
>line just to attract customers to a more expensive one.

This is false; Flex is actually the cheaper product-it’s free(!) and can be downloaded from Adobe’s website. One way in which the Flash CS3 components seem interesting: trying to use Flex components in a pure AS3 project is a pain in the neck.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:48:17 +0000

Are the demos referred to in the “Instances as skins” sections posted anywhere? I’ve been trying to find the best way to programmatically skin components in Flash, but haven’t really found a good tutorial. Its easy to do in Flex by extending ProgrammaticSkin (mx.skins.ProgrammaticSkin) but this class isn’t available in Flash. Any help greatly appreciated!!

By: Roland

Roland — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:10:27 +0000

I think what they did is a shame. There is simply no excuse for omitting data components and data binding, saying they were not used anyway is just lame. Becouse of this decision Flash ceased to exist as a RIA tool, it remains only a toy for designers, unable to carry out serious tasks. I think it’s an agressive marketing strategy to force people to purchase flex, which is much more expensive. It’s sad that Adobe has to “kill off” a well working product line just to attract customers to a more expensive one. Anyway, while this could work on the short term, it will definitly betray itself on the long term, exspecially when competitors like silverlight 2.0 are knockng on the door.

By: DrDave

DrDave — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:54:13 +0000

Not sure i understand what Adobe are trying to achieve with the latest version of flash in particular the component selection and the lack of data components.

Web sites are constantly evolving and adding extra functionality, integration to other systems which is clearly the way forward, so the lack of data components, web services does seem strange and i agree the rationel behind their decision to omit these from this release simply doesn’t make sense.

By: Chiranjeevi

Chiranjeevi — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:00:13 +0000

Every thing is ok
To Some Extent I managed to develop it
but Not able to insert Metadata to component
How to create it

By: hydraScripter

hydraScripter — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:49:25 +0000

OMIT *** I meant Binding is POINTLESS! :-)

By: hydraScripter

hydraScripter — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:47:51 +0000

Biniging was always poinless I freelanced for a number of London companies and not one has the Creative Supervisor ever asked me to use them. An Array had always been a data provider so its easier to create a class to PARSE incoming XML into components, instead of messing about with Component Inspector.

The tree component is quite simple to make as long as you addChild(tree_mc) to every xmlNode that hasChilds. So a tree component isnt impossible to make.

An accorian if you are a serious developer can also be created from scratch. It just movieclips on different depth levels.

But I wont front, they did make things a bit easier when they were there.
I like CS3 and I like AIR they’re untouchable.