Comments on: SWC’s Within SWC’s Confirmed: It Works!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:59:36 +0000

I’ve been looking around for a while, and I would really appreciate any help you can give me.

I’ve been looking for a way to set the loading order of classes. In other words, I have a class ( lets say scrollPane ) that uses another class ( lets say scrollbar ). I need to set the scrollbar class to load before the scrollpane class, and I’m really stuck. I used to use #initclip, but this does not work in class files.

If there is any help you can give me, I would REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks,

Paul

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:55:24 +0000

You might want to ASV (ActionScript Viewer) the source, and see if the #initclip order is changed or not; maybe since Flash see’s the other one, it causes it to be off. I doubt duped classes is the problem, but rather init order.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:24:53 +0000

The problem I’ve had with SWCs in SWCs, is later when you need to have that same “SWC” used by itself somewhere else in your .fla. For example, if you have a SWC with a Button or Combo box component embedded, then you need to use a Button or ComboBox somewhere else in the .fla. This caused *really strange things to happen, and I had to opt out of the SWC within a SWC campaign. I either now compile the source comp (not the swc) in with my SWC, or just document the dependancy.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:06:46 +0000

Well, there are 2 problems with that.

First, this:

import mx.controls.Button

private var my_b:Button;

Does NOT export the Button class you think… it’s using Flash’ intrinsic Button class. That was strike #1.

#2, I thought that this:

import mx.controls.Label;

private var my_lbl:Label;

Exported the class to the SWC, but I don’t know who or what figured that they just wanted for the base class. I consider both of the above explicit references to the class, therefore, Flash should export it, but it wasn’t happening. #2 is iffy, because I don’t know where the problem was in my case.

By: Greg Burch

Greg Burch — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:46:15 +0000

Yea having just an import statement will not do anything you have to reference the class somewhere in your code.