RE: [flexcoders] Extending visual custom components
Chapter 2 of the Creating and Extending Flex Components followed by Chapter 7 perhaps? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mahuika1Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:57 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] Extending visual custom components I would like to create a custom component that displays visualcontrols such as labels etc then extend that to display other controlsbeneath the previous ones. Does any one know how I can do this orshould I just have many small components and reuse them in othercomponents? For example..I want to: create a Doc component which contains header and footerdetails. Then create DocA component which extends Doc to also displaytext between the header and footer. Or: create Header and Footer components. Then create DocA which usesHeader and Footer and displays text.Silly example but ideally I would like to extend the component which Ican't seem to do. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [flexcoders] Extending visual custom components
On 5/4/06, mahuika1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to create a custom component that displays visual > controls such as labels etc then extend that to display other controls > beneath the previous ones. Does any one know how I can do this or > should I just have many small components and reuse them in other > components? For example.. > > I want to: create a Doc component which contains header and footer > details. Then create DocA component which extends Doc to also display > text between the header and footer. See Peter Ent's blog entry on how to create "templates" http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2006/03/component_templ.cfm > Or: create Header and Footer components. Then create DocA which uses > Header and Footer and displays text. I would do it this way. I'm assuming you're talking about MXML components. If you're writing your component in ActionScript, then you can do pretty much anything. Just override 'measure' and 'updateDisplayList' and change the size and layout of the "DocA" component accordingly. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
