Cheers, Every bit of info I could have wished for. Lot's of trying out to do :) tx!, Ben
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul BH Sent: Thu 12/15/2005 5:34 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Adjusting standard v2 components Devendran, there are actually a lot of situations where that doesnt help you any - eg changing the way a button skin is drawn... Ben, this is how you should go about doin what you need to do: If you really want to change something in the codebase, you need to be using the non-compiled clips, so rather than bringing stuff in from the components pane, you need to copy the Component from StandardComponents.fla which will be somewhere like: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\ComponentFLA when you copy accross the component, you will notice in the comp definition that export in first frame is unchecked - recheck this if you have troubles... Now you should be able to amend the class defn in one of the classpaths... All this said, I would advise against changing the MM code directly - it makes it a lot more of a hassle to transfer your work to other machines... two options: 1) Ensure your local classpath is at the top of the list of classpaths (it may be already, I dont have flash open), and duplicate the class in there, then make your changes. This ensures you dont change the original, and that if an entire project gets moved, the amended code goes with it. However, the problem is that if someone tries to use your button in another project and doesnt know you have done it this way, it can be hard to track down... 2)subclass the Button and overwrite the methods you want to change. This is the way I tend to go about doing this even if its only a smalll change. The only disadvantage of this is that the way MM have coded their components is that the methods tend to be a bit overlong, and you often only want to change one line or two. I try to treat this as a good excercise in refactoring... have fun PBH _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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