[flexcoders] Re: Populating a Flex Container in Flash
Hi Tracey, Thanks for your response. So you have a browser hosting the Flash Player, running a Flex app that contains a SWFLoader that loads a Flash SWF. Sorry, I should have been more specific: I'm developing an AIR application. The SWFLoader is used to hold Flash content that's used as an animated background for the app's main window. In some cases I do use TitleWindows as dialogs for collecting and displaying information and in other cases I use Canvas-based components as direct children of the main window. With respect to the problem I'm describing here, I'm trying to display Flex content so that it appears to be completely integrated with the Flash background. Is the Flex framework available from within the Flash SWF? No. I do hook and receive events from the Flash SWF as well as control various animations but that's all done from Flex. Also, UIComponent is not a container and will not do any automatic sizing or layout of the content. You will have to do that yourself. That means implementing the lifecycle, layout and measurement functionality. Say again why you want to do this? I'm not saying it is bad, just trying to be sure you have a god reason. One of the issues I've experienced in trying to get this to work is runtime errors that claim the Flex content I'm trying to set on the ContainerMovieClip (in Flash) isn't a UIComponent (or doesn't implement IUIComponent). As I understand it, the ContainerMovieClip is supposed to be able to hold a single Flex child, which can then hold additional children. Ultimately I wouldn't use a UIComponent - I was just trying to make sure that the ContainerMovieClip instance in Flash didn't have a valid claim that I wasn't passing in a UIComponent ;) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of specdout Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:05 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Populating a Flex Container in Flash Does anyone else have any thoughts on this problem? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , specdout raturne@ wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Paul Andrews paul@ wrote: Does anything get added to the display list? When the example code executes I do see the FlexContentHolder symbol (Fx) on the display where I would expect it to be, i.e. positioned where I would expect, with the dimensions I would expect, so I think it's already on the DisplayList. As well, I can make it invisible if I want, so it does appear to be available and active - it's just the Flex content that doesn't show. - Original Message - From: specdout raturne@ To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Populating a Flex Container in Flash Hi All, I'm currently developing a Flex application that loads a Flash SWF for use as a background image. In other words, the app's main window has as its first child a SWFLoader component into which I've loaded a SWF developed in Flash. So far, so good. Now, rather than open up dialogs or create direct child windows of the main window, I want to host Flex content within the Flash SWF itself. I installed the Flex Component Kit in my Flash CS3 environment and proceeded to created a MovieClip symbol that contains a FlexContentHolder. From Flex, I can access the symbol and set Flex content on that symbol but the Flex content never appears. An example of how I've attempted to do this is as follows: // get a reference to the Flex Content MovieClip var swf:MovieClip = _swfLoader.content as MovieClip; var fc:Object = swf[flexContainer]; // create some Flex content to display var button:Button = new Button(); button.width = 200; button.height = 100; button.label = Click me!; // create a top-level container for the Flex content var uiComponent:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); uiComponent.width = fc.width; uiComponent.height = fc.height; uiComponent.alpha = 1.0; uiComponent.addChild(button); uiComponent.visible = true; fc.content = uiComponent; Am I doing something wrong here? Conceptually, am I on the right track? In other words, should what I'm trying to do be possible? I'd appreciate any help or insight anyone might be able to offer. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf- 1e62079f6847 https://share.acrobat.com/adc
[flexcoders] Re: Populating a Flex Container in Flash
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this problem? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, specdout ratu...@... wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews paul@ wrote: Does anything get added to the display list? When the example code executes I do see the FlexContentHolder symbol (Fx) on the display where I would expect it to be, i.e. positioned where I would expect, with the dimensions I would expect, so I think it's already on the DisplayList. As well, I can make it invisible if I want, so it does appear to be available and active - it's just the Flex content that doesn't show. - Original Message - From: specdout raturne@ To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Populating a Flex Container in Flash Hi All, I'm currently developing a Flex application that loads a Flash SWF for use as a background image. In other words, the app's main window has as its first child a SWFLoader component into which I've loaded a SWF developed in Flash. So far, so good. Now, rather than open up dialogs or create direct child windows of the main window, I want to host Flex content within the Flash SWF itself. I installed the Flex Component Kit in my Flash CS3 environment and proceeded to created a MovieClip symbol that contains a FlexContentHolder. From Flex, I can access the symbol and set Flex content on that symbol but the Flex content never appears. An example of how I've attempted to do this is as follows: // get a reference to the Flex Content MovieClip var swf:MovieClip = _swfLoader.content as MovieClip; var fc:Object = swf[flexContainer]; // create some Flex content to display var button:Button = new Button(); button.width = 200; button.height = 100; button.label = Click me!; // create a top-level container for the Flex content var uiComponent:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); uiComponent.width = fc.width; uiComponent.height = fc.height; uiComponent.alpha = 1.0; uiComponent.addChild(button); uiComponent.visible = true; fc.content = uiComponent; Am I doing something wrong here? Conceptually, am I on the right track? In other words, should what I'm trying to do be possible? I'd appreciate any help or insight anyone might be able to offer. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Populating a Flex Container in Flash
Hi All, I'm currently developing a Flex application that loads a Flash SWF for use as a background image. In other words, the app's main window has as its first child a SWFLoader component into which I've loaded a SWF developed in Flash. So far, so good. Now, rather than open up dialogs or create direct child windows of the main window, I want to host Flex content within the Flash SWF itself. I installed the Flex Component Kit in my Flash CS3 environment and proceeded to created a MovieClip symbol that contains a FlexContentHolder. From Flex, I can access the symbol and set Flex content on that symbol but the Flex content never appears. An example of how I've attempted to do this is as follows: // get a reference to the Flex Content MovieClip var swf:MovieClip = _swfLoader.content as MovieClip; var fc:Object = swf[flexContainer]; // create some Flex content to display var button:Button = new Button(); button.width = 200; button.height = 100; button.label = Click me!; // create a top-level container for the Flex content var uiComponent:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); uiComponent.width = fc.width; uiComponent.height = fc.height; uiComponent.alpha = 1.0; uiComponent.addChild(button); uiComponent.visible = true; fc.content = uiComponent; Am I doing something wrong here? Conceptually, am I on the right track? In other words, should what I'm trying to do be possible? I'd appreciate any help or insight anyone might be able to offer.
[flexcoders] Re: Populating a Flex Container in Flash
Thanks for your reply, Paul. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews p...@... wrote: Does anything get added to the display list? When the example code executes I do see the FlexContentHolder symbol (Fx) on the display where I would expect it to be, i.e. positioned where I would expect, with the dimensions I would expect, so I think it's already on the DisplayList. As well, I can make it invisible if I want, so it does appear to be available and active - it's just the Flex content that doesn't show. - Original Message - From: specdout ratu...@... To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Populating a Flex Container in Flash Hi All, I'm currently developing a Flex application that loads a Flash SWF for use as a background image. In other words, the app's main window has as its first child a SWFLoader component into which I've loaded a SWF developed in Flash. So far, so good. Now, rather than open up dialogs or create direct child windows of the main window, I want to host Flex content within the Flash SWF itself. I installed the Flex Component Kit in my Flash CS3 environment and proceeded to created a MovieClip symbol that contains a FlexContentHolder. From Flex, I can access the symbol and set Flex content on that symbol but the Flex content never appears. An example of how I've attempted to do this is as follows: // get a reference to the Flex Content MovieClip var swf:MovieClip = _swfLoader.content as MovieClip; var fc:Object = swf[flexContainer]; // create some Flex content to display var button:Button = new Button(); button.width = 200; button.height = 100; button.label = Click me!; // create a top-level container for the Flex content var uiComponent:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); uiComponent.width = fc.width; uiComponent.height = fc.height; uiComponent.alpha = 1.0; uiComponent.addChild(button); uiComponent.visible = true; fc.content = uiComponent; Am I doing something wrong here? Conceptually, am I on the right track? In other words, should what I'm trying to do be possible? I'd appreciate any help or insight anyone might be able to offer. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
