I'll have to look into this when we hit the next revision. For now I
ended up just placing 2 mc's into my RectBorder symbol, outline_mc
and bg_mc. Then in my (I think) draw() method, I just assigned the
proper colors to these clips. It works great for now though it might
save me a byte or 2 to do them programmatically, and since I'm only
using TextArea in this app, I have no idea what it's going to do to
any of the other components that use RectBorder.
Thanks though for looking into it!
john
On May 16, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Robert Hadsell wrote:
John --
Your postings led me to look into this further. I found the answer
in this livedocs item, Using ActionScript to draw Button skins:
http://tinyurl.com/282gze
You'll see from the Comments at the end that the AS code didn't
seem to work. This might be because the instructions are ambiguous
on which type of new symbol (named ButtonSkin) to create; it works
OK with ButtonSkin created as a movie clip. The second Comment
gives a link that is very useful, dealing with all the quirky terms
for button states. (It turns out that a button that has focus is in
"emphasized" states; a button that has been made to toggle on is in
the "true" states; toggle off puts the button in "false" states, a
perverse term because this is the state buttons are normally in.)
The key to controlling the settable features of RectBorder is
lineStyle. The three parameters in the example (additionally
parameters can follow these) are thickness for line width (0 would
be hairline), 0 for line color (black; any other color would be
0xrrggbb hexadecimal terms), and 100 for alpha.
-- Bob Hadsell
From: john robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:46:18 -0400
Thanks!
I'm looking into RectBorder now and creating my own RectBorder class.
I've got it working following the example below (though I'm using
F8, not CS3) but now I have a new issue...
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/
html/ wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003504.html
The width I want is actually "hairline". Easy enough using the
RectBorder example above.
Now I need to be able to change the color of that border at
runtime. Anyone?
Thanks again,
John
On May 2, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote:
There is no "size" or "width" property for the RectBorder, which
is what the
TextArea component uses for the border. You would have to do a
custom skin
or theme. If this is only for this one project, you can copy the
skin
elements into your library. Here is the info from livedocs:
http://tinyurl.com/3acnln. Of course, this is just one approach
and it is
optimized for doing it with a single FLA file. If you are
working across
multiple FLAs you may want to take a different approach.
-----Original Message-----
From: john robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Flashcoders] border styles for TextArea component
Hello all -
I'm using the TextArea component in Flash 8. I need to give the
component a
border that is 1 pixel wide. I've found that using setStyle
("borderStyle",
"solid") gives me a solid border but it is wider than I need.
Can anyone
give me a hint as to how to change the width of the border?
Thanks!
John
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