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In a bare bones simple creation of a SWC file, I could not get it to work. Testing the component as well as testing a compiled clip both worked, but not an SWC. I read the tutorial by <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/buildtest_comp.html”>Allen & Nigel on Macromedia’s site</a>, dug into the chattyfig archives, and re-read the Flash help a few times. Still no dice.

Turns out, you have to ALSO define your AS2 class in the Component’s defintion panel. Right click on the symbol in the Library, select “Component Definition…”, and then type in your AS2 class name in the AS2 class field provided.

I didn’t see this documentated anywhere, so until someone body checks me on a RTFM part that I somehow missed, I’ll make a tutorial soon so no one has to go through the 2 day pain that I did.

Thanks again Johan Nel from Flashcoders with helping me out!

I say yeah. I love it, but I think it should be changed to compile. After seeing an onDemand demo for Forms, it’s really “left over” terminology. If we want respect from developers, I think it’s time to change it. I don’t want to, but it really makes no sense when you look at where Flash MX 2004 Professional is compared to where Flash 3 was.

For those of you over the pain involved in defining all sub-components used in your main component at your variable definitions, you still may be suffering from all the work in actually defining them in the first place. Some forms can have many elements and toggling between your FLA to get the name of the next element, and then toggling back to your ActionScript to type it in can be a pain… specially if you decide to add or remove an element.

Therefore, here is some JSAPI code that will get all the current components of the current layer, and define them for you.

Read on…