Regina, To be honest, from the way you describe how you've been working, I'm not sure if ActionStep is appropriate.
It is very code-centric. If you aren't comfortable working almost completely in
a non-visual environment, then it won't be a good choice for your project.
We're working on an interface builder, which is looking great, but it will be
months before it's usable in any real form.
But I should also mention that ActionStep drawing is done using a class called
ASGraphics. It provides a plethora of drawing primitives (circles, a few
different rectangles, elliptical and circular arcs, circles, ellipses,
hexagons...and more). This would make it quite a bit easier to get your classes
drawn through the drawing API, because you don't have to worry about the
internals.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Scott Hyndman
Sent: Wed 3/8/2006 10:35 AM
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Subject: RE: [osflash] Hunting for GUI components... any ideas?
Regina,
ActionStep can do skins with MovieClips. It also has every component you're
looking for.
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Regina Dowling
Sent: Wed 3/8/2006 8:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [osflash] Hunting for GUI components... any ideas?
Hi iley,
> >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. I tried
it once, but I get undesired effects with the curveTo-command
(that is, the Flash Player shows lines that shouldn't exist, or
rather lines that are way longer than they should be).
> Or, you can operate movieclips in UI classes, but i don't think it's
> easier than drawing graphics directly in AsWing mechanism.:)
Would it be possible to extend the UI classes that they can
attach a movieclip as "background" for a component? Instead of
drawing it?
Cheers,
Regina
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