I posted this on Flexcoders earlier today without any responses. But then, Yahoo's servers have also been timing out - maybe the forum is not working well. I figure someone else might be able to point me to some information.
Can someone send me some links to information on all the ins and outs of creating visual custom Flex UIComponents with AS3 3 - NOT MXML (i.e. a class that extends UIComponent) ? I've actually done it before, but had some bugs and headaches because I didn't fully understand all the intricacies of method overriding you have to/should do - things like measure(), clone(), updateDisplayList (), etc. - so that it looks/works right and the UIComponent stays within its container (for example, you create a UIComponent that draws a large circle, but you want the circle to remain within the bounds of a scrollpane component it is a child of). I've googled all over the place, including adobe devnet and the Flexcoders archives and have come up short. Seems to be bits and pieces - I'm looking for some kind of explanation or simple example of writing a visual component I understand the AS3 drawing API and databinding, I just want info on the rest of best practices for extending UIComponent. Seems like I had seen a tutorial on this before on devnet, but I can't locate it now (the search on that thing is terrible!) - also others have made some good posts on that here as well, but can't find those either. Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · Learning Performance Solutions L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
