Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
We skin by using an XML file to hold the parameters that control the appearance of the GUI. This is read by the application and it draws the on-screen elements using the information in the XML file. The information can set fonts, colors, sizes, indicate images, tell the GUI which movie clips

RE: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app. We skin by using an XML file to hold the parameters that control the appearance of the GUI. This is read by the application and it draws the on-screen elements using the information in the XML file. The information can set fonts, colors

[Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-21 Thread Rudi Yardley
I am trying to design a flash based application that will require multiple themes based on a theme id that should be passed into the main movie. The way the application needs to work is that we need to have runtime or scriptable selection of theme based on an input variable like: