Hi John & Danny Thanks for your help. Problem has been solved , there were some missing libraries in my Flex compiler. I uninstalled the complete package and re-installed it, and I can access SWC files using my code now. Appreciate your help Anuj
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:19 AM, John McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Anuj, > > //"An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information." > I had difficulty in understanding exactly what was needed to use Flash > assets and had similar errors. It doesn't help when the documentation > varies so much on what to do. Unfortunately the Adobe PDF's have no > publishing date written inside and so you often get information > from out-of-date ones. > > I am able to use Flash Assets but my projects are all ActionScript > projects rather than Flex projects. As a result I do not have to turn the > asset into a Flex component by making it an extension of the UIMovieClip > class. For example, on the stage I have a red dot with a radial gradient. I > make it into a symbol and it goes in the library. It has to be either a > button or MovieClip. Say I call it RedDot. I can delete the one on the > stage. When I publish I make sure the SWC box is ticked in the publish > settings. In Flex Builder 3 I right click the project, go to build options > and add the swc. If I then type var rd:, suddenly RedDot is on the list of > types I select it and hit return. So I finish up with var rd:RedDot = new > RedDot and I can addChild(rd) and that's it. > > With Flex projects the only difference is that Flex needs to give the mxml > compiler access to RedDot. It does this by agreeing an interface to it - > this is just a set of agreed functions/methods that both sides agree on. > This is the UIMovieClip - UserInterfaceToMovieClip (probably). So in Flash > my RedDot has to extend UIMovieClip. If you have already done this, > right-click the symbol in the library and check the properties to see this. > If not, select the symbol and go to the Commands menu in Flash and choose > Convert symbol to Flex component. This has three consequences, which you can > just do manually yourself: > > 1. The fps is set to 24. > 2. The Base Class is set to mx.flash.UIMovieClip. > 3. The FlexComponentBase is added to the library. > > Note: I have just checked and found that the library symbol must have > export for actionscript ticked *before* you Convert it, otherwise it > doesn't do it. Now you can either right-click the symbol and export the swc, > or publish and produce the swc. I have a swf with five symbols in it and > when published my swc has five symbols in which I can use in Flex. I suggest > you draw the simplest graphic, turn it into a MovieClip symbol for the > library. Make sure export for actionscript is set in the library symbol. > Select it and Convert to a Flex Component. Check the properties for the > UIMovieClip class. Publish with SWC ticked. Import it, and it should be > available. You don't need to write a class to go with it since Flash > produces its own cutdown class for it when ti doesn't find one. > > I got the above error when I followed various guidelines and tried to do > something more complicated. > > Fingers crossed for you! > > John > >
