Macromedia Flash® ActionScript: Training from the Source

Lesson 10. UI Components Look at nearly any computer program, whether it's used for creating and managing a database or drawing illustrations, and you'll notice a number of interface elements common to those applications. You'll see similarities i...

What You Will Learn In this lesson, you will: Learn how to set and get component property valuesUse component events to trigger scriptsUse component methods to insert data dynamicallyWork with the FocusManager component to make a more usable appl...

Approximate Time This lesson takes approximately two hours to complete. ...

Lesson Files Media Files: None Starting File: Lesson10/Start/Components1.fla Completed Project: Lesson10/Completed/Components6.fla ...

Components: A Scripting Primer Because the focus of this book is ActionScript, our discussion in this lesson largely centers on how to work with and use Flash components from a scripting standpoint. For a more thorough overview of components, cons...

Configuring Component Properties As you're well aware by now, most graphical elements used in a Flash application have configurable properties that ActionScript can access and change while the application is running. For example, movie clip instan...

Triggering Scripts Using Component Events Users can interact with components in many ways. Depending on the component, users can type text into the component, click the component, select an item, and more. As with any interactivity such as this, i...

Using Component Methods As should be obvious by now, both the UIObject and UIComponent classes have methods that are inherited by all component instances. In addition, different component types have methods that are unique to themselves. For brevi...

Using the FocusManager Component One of the main goals of any good application is to make the user's experience as pleasant and straightforward as possible. A large part of accomplishing this goal involves anticipating the user's needs and making ...

Customizing UI Components with ActionScript Let's face itmost coders couldn't care less about the design aspects of an application. They just want to see it work. However, there's no getting around the fact that in the real world, a great-looking ...

What You Have Learned In this lesson, you have: Learned how to set and get component property values (pages 231240)Used component events to trigger scripts (pages 240246)Used component methods to insert data dynamically (pages 247258)Worked with ...