Comments on: Wireframe Components Using Flash 8’s Scale9

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:00:47 +0000

Yeah, you can edit it. It’s in:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\First Run\Include

By: Bhanu

Bhanu — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:27:22 +0000

Can we edit the mm_livepreview.as, so that visibility of muiltiple instances of a SWC can be set using the component inspector panel in the IDE. Currently the Flash IDE supports visiblity for a single instance of the SWC.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:54:30 +0000

Yeah, don’t. Just extend mx.core.UIObject, right click on the symbol, and ‘Convert to Compiled clip’. If it works, you can export to an SWC in confidence.

The only reason I resorted to the low-level was to get labels to work, and in retrospect I probably didn’t have to.

By: Andreas Weber

Andreas Weber — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:51:07 +0000

Thanks for the info Jesse!
Good to know about mm_livepreview.as.
After a lot of fiddling (iirc involving an interval or watch to detect changes) I then finally got the LivePreview working for the non-mx.core.UIObject-extending components.
I also needed an onUpdate() function to which the mysterious xch clip was sent.
Anyway, it was really, really kludgy – I hoped you had found a more efficient way using the mm_livepreview.as file.
Cheers!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:04:16 +0000

BTW, the reason you probably had issues creating components not based on mx.core.UIObject is because LivePreviews expect you to do so. They check for mc.width for example instead of mx._width. They call mc.setSize which is only a method of UIObject extended components.