Hi Regina, I haven't used ASWing in any sort of real-world project but it should (theoretically) be possible to use attachMovie to use MovieClips to skin components in the paint() method, shouldn't it?
MovieClip-based skinning is the most natural/easiest method for skinning Flash applications. It would be great if someone had the time to document exactly how to do this for the major open source component frameworks. Code-based skinning is all right, if you're in the 0.001% of the developer population with the necessary technical skills. (And even then, some use cases, such as Regina's, do not fit). IMHO, movieclip-based skinning is a prerequisite to widespread adoption of any Flash component framework. The bar on ease-of-use has been set by Flex 2 and its skinning model :) It's up to the other component frameworks to match this now! All the best, Aral Regina Dowling wrote: >>>Can I use movieclips as skins, too? >>> >>> >>You can hardly use movieclips to implement a complete skin, The >>only way with movieclips as skins is Icon, you can use AttachIcon >>or LoadIcon to do some interface with movieclips. But they just >>can do the component that can paint a icon. >> >> >:-( That's too bad - as I said: our designers think of skins >that are really not really ideal for the drawing API. > <snip> _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
