Hmmm. I don't have an easy answer for you. I know there were some issues during CS3 development around classes not getting included unless you did some specific settings, but I thought we had resolved them. One thing to make sure you're _not_ doing is sharing your source files between Flex and Flash. You can share interface source files, and you can share non-display object source files, but don't share source files for subclasses of MovieClip, Sprite, etc. Here's why: - Developer opens CS3 - Developer creates movieclip called 'Colorable' - Developer associates 'Colorable' with symbol X their library - Developer publishes as SWC. - CS3 emits the SWC, with the code that associates Colorable with symbol X - Developer uses the SWC in their flex application - Flex compiles. - Flex sees the Colorable source file. Flex doesn't see any [Embed] metadata on top of the Colorable class declaration. So Flex creates an implicit blank symbol and associates it with Colorable (because the player requires an association for display object classes). Oops! Flex just blew away your class/symbol association! Now when your symbol shows up on the timeline at runtime, flash creates a dumb movieclip instance for it, because it can't find any other associated class. If you share classes from CS3 to flex using SWCs, rather than source files, you won't run into this problem. It's entirely possible you're running into other problems though. Ely. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thegiffman Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex ignoring Actionscript Timeline Actions Hi Ely, Thanks for the tip. Mind if I ask one more question here? I did as you demonstrated (using a SWC), and timeline code now works. I am also able to access methods of classes defined in the linkage base class of the symbol, which is also nice. However - I am not able to execute methods on base classes of symbols CONTAINED therein. Let me show you some example code. My Person contains MovieClips, some of which contain or are themselves an extension of "ColorableMovie". Basically I just want to specify a particular instance as being the colorable part of the movie, leaving other components alone. For instance, for the hair, I might have transparent highlights and shadows, and I only want to color the "colorable" part. So, the person contains various things that can be colored. Now, when I import the person into flex, I can see it as a subclass of Person. However, when I call the "shirt" setter, though it executes the code therein, the "color" setters are never called (though they are if you load the swf dynamically at runtime). Any advice on this one? Or is the response just "don't DO that!" ;-) package com { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.geom.ColorTransform; public class ColorableMovie extends MovieClip { public function set color(color:uint):void{ var colorTransform:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform(); colorTransform.color = color; this["_colorItem"].transform.colorTransform = colorTransform; } } } package com { import flash.display.MovieClip; public class Person extends MovieClip { public function set shirt(color:uint){ this["_leftArm"]._shirt.color = color; this["_rightArm"]._shirt.color = color; this["_body"]._shirt.color = color; } } }
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