Using ActionScript 2.0 Components with Macromedia Flash 8

by Berry, Bob; deHaan, Jen; deHaan, Peter; Jacowitz, David; Pickett, Wade

• ISBN13: 9780321395399
• ISBN10: 0321395395
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-12
• Publisher: Macromedia Press

Summary

Macromedia's official guide to using, customizing, and creating Flash components to help speed Web development!

Author Biography

Bob Berry, Jen deHaan, Peter deHaan, David Jacowitz, and Wade Pickett are members of the staff of the Instructional Media Development
team at Macromedia. The Macromedia Instructional Media Development (IMD) team is a group of technical writers, editors, and production engineers who create the technical documentation for all Macromedia products and technologies. Each product has a team of dedicated writers who document the help systems, feature descriptions, and learning paths that Macromedia customers use. Through their years of insider, hands-on product experience, the IMD team is uniquely qualified to bring you these official Macromedia-branded documentation reference guides.

Table of Contents

Intended audience	p. 8
System requirements	p. 8
About the documentation	p. 8
Typographical conventions	p. 9
Terms used in this manual	p. 9
Additional resources	p. 9
About Components	p. 11
Installing components	p. 12
Where component files are stored	p. 14
Modifying the component files	p. 15
Benefits of using components	p. 16
Component categories	p. 16
About version 2 component architecture	p. 17
Version 2 component features	p. 18
About compiled clips and SWC files	p. 19
Accessibility and components	p. 20
Creating an Application with Components (Flash Professional Only)	p. 21
About the Fix Your Mistake tutorial	p. 21
Build the main page	p. 23
Bind data components to display gift ideas	p. 29
Display gift details	p. 33
Create the checkout screen	p. 38
Test the application	p. 46
Viewing the completed application	p. 46
Working with Components	p. 47
The Components panel	p. 48
Adding components to Flash documents	p. 48
Components in the Library panel	p. 52
Setting component parameters	p. 53
Sizing components	p. 54
Deleting components from Flash documents	p. 55
Using code hints	p. 56
Creating custom focus navigation	p. 56
Managing component depth in a document	p. 57
Components in Live Preview	p. 58
Using a preloader with components	p. 58
About loading components	p. 60
Upgrading version 1 components to version 2 architecture	p. 60
Handling Component Events	p. 61
Using listeners to handle events	p. 62
Delegating events	p. 70
About the event object	p. 73
Using the on() event handler	p. 74
Customizing Components	p. 77
Using styles to customize component color and text	p. 78
About skinning components	p. 91
About themes	p. 103
Combining skinning and styles to customize a component	p. 113
Creating Components	p. 119
Component source files	p. 119
Overview of component structure	p. 120
Building your first component	p. 121
Selecting a parent class	p. 130
Creating a component movie clip	p. 132
Creating the ActionScript class file	p. 137
Incorporating existing components within your component	p. 166
Exporting and distributing a component	p. 175
Final steps in component development	p. 178
Collection Properties	p. 181
Defining a collection property	p. 183
Simple collection example	p. 184
Defining the class for a collection item	p. 186
Accessing collection information programmatically	p. 186
Exporting components that have collections to SWC files	p. 189
Using a component that has a collection property	p. 190
Index	p. 191
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