Comments on: Flash 9 Button in Flex 2

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:06:21 +0000

Thanks for this, Jesse. As for elements within the button triggering another rollOver event, add this to the BlueTechButtonSymbol constructor:

this.mouseChildren = false;

By: Josephine

Josephine — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:48:40 +0000

This tutorial is great, but all the links to the source code go to Error 404 – Not Found page. Any chance you could fix those links so I could check out the source?
Thanks,
Josephine

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:05:33 +0000

i figured it out. i see that i can just retrieve and then add my ‘id’ attribute in the createChildren() method. but when i click the button and try to read event.target.id from my handler, i get the following error:

#1069: Property id not fuond on flash.text.TextField and there is no default value.

what can i do to get around this? thanks again. — matt.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:44:33 +0000

hi…

..and thanks for this great tutorial. it has been immensely helpful in getting me to incorporate flash designed buttons into my flex app. i do have one question, though. i am trying (unsuccessfully) to add an “id” attribute to this button so i can specify it just like you do with the label attribute in mxml. how would i go about doing this?

thanks for any tips and thanks again for a great tutorial. — matt.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:17:57 +0000

There is one thing I’d like to point to your otherwise excellent post about getting animated buttons from Flash into Flex. If you move your mouse slowly over different parts of the button you’ll see that the MOUSE_OVER event fires everytime you hit a different part of the button. The easiest way I’ve come to get around this is to create an invisible movieclip right below the labels layer and name it hotSpot as well as instance name it hotSpot. Then inside the Symbol.as set your event listeners to only list on that movieclip. So your code would be as follows.

public var hotSpot:MovieClip;

public function BlueTechButtonSymbol() {
super();

hotSpot.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver);
hotSpot.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut);

// stop, since our frame actions are removed
stop();
}