Flash :: Skin Scroll Bar Component

Skin Scroll Bar Component
have found this url http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...e=03_cus17.htm in order to skin the scrollbar of a List component component in flash mx 2004 but dont work for me, my new arrowdown is missing when i click on the down arrow, have u an issue about that ? thanks.

Mac OS X Component Skin?
Hello Everyone, just a quick one really. I was wondering whether anyone had come across a decent OS X LookyLikey skin for Flash's UI Components. I bit lazy I know but I don't really feel like re-inventing the wheel at the moment! Cheers.

Whats The Easiest Way To Skin A Scroll Plane?
Hey guys, me again whats the easiest way to skin a scroll plane?

[F8] How Do You Skin A Scoller Component?
Hi All,

I have a scroller component in my flash website that I am building but I really need to change how it looks by default to the design I attached to this post.

How do I do this? The information in the Flash help isn't very useful. It keeps referring me back to 'themes' but I do not understand why I need to rebuild an entire theme for a simple scroller component. The gray background is just the background....

any help is greatly appreciated.

Component Skin Question
Is there any way to change the skin of a TileList component with the skin changes appearing ON TOP of the source image? I want to take some basic images from my TileList and make the skin so that it appears to be in a film strip. So I want to change the TileList or CellRenderer skin so that it looks like a film strip.

Any way to do this? if so, how? any change I make to CellRenderer skins appear BELOW my source image!!! HELP!!!!!

Have FLA Component But It Will Not Skin Programmatically
I have an FLA based component but I'm trying to set it up for skinning. I can do it manually, but I can not do it programmatically like:

window1.setStyle("lBarSkin", leftbarsilver);

window1 being the component instance name.

leftbarsilver being a movieclip in the library exported for as.

how do I define the skins and then how do I change them programmatically? Thanks

Any help? Suggestions? Advice? I've racked my brain on this for about 2 weeks now and don't know where else to go. Thanks.

Component Skin Resources
Does anyone know of any websites out there that have pre-made skins for components that one could just load into their movie? It can be such a pain making your own and if there's ones available to download else that fit your design it would make life so much easier. Anyone?

Skin The List Component
Hi everybody

It 's my first post on the forum, nice to meet you ! ( i m french so my english is not so good !!! )
I would like to know how can i skin the list component ?
is ti dynamicly or passing by the librairy ?
Somebody can help me please

Halo Skin For Tree Component
Hi all
I am working on a project where I need to use the tree and accordion components. I want them to look the same for a seemless feel. However I cant seem to get the tree to skin with the halo skin. I want to get rid of the folder icons etc and have the gradiant background like the accordion. I have managed to do some custome styles and such but not quite there. Has anyone done this? any help would be great.

thanx
dave

Create My Own Component - How To Do Like FLVPlayer 8 Skin
I have create a component.
The problem was always the same, component v2 was hard to customize. Well that is my opinion. With Flash 8 a new way to customize has been created. If you look at the FLVPlayback, to customize the player you can go to a Fla and do what you want, publish it, and then you load it as a skin.

Is there a tutorial or something that can show me how to do that with my own component

Tanx !

Change Skin Of Component On Runtime
Hi guys,

I have a urgent need. I am in trouble to change skins of UIscroll bar . I want to change the skins of UIScroll Bar on selecting values from combo Box or else. Any one have the idea how to change that.

with extrem hopes,
saurabh

FLV Playback Component Custom Skin
I am struggling with trying to figure out how to make my own custom skin that will display the elapsed time of the FLV being played. I need the code to be within the actual skin on not within the FLV playback component...For example in the skin I have my seek bar and above the seek bar is where I want the elapsed time to display so it has to be in the skin itself. I am using Flash CS3 with actionscript 3.0. Any help would be great. I have been searching most of the day for a way to do this but haven't had any luck

Skin Listbox Component Flash 8
How do you skin the listbox component in Flash 8? I can change the color of the scrollbar but nothing else. Anybody have an example?

Change Scrollpane Component Skin?
Hey Guys can you change the ScrollPane component ? if so how ? I was following the tutorial of Lee but I couldnt find the ScrollPane assets ....
any idea ? thanks.

AS GURU WONTED How To Skin Textfield Of Component?
i bilding simple BtnComponent which should be skinable.
i drived my btnClass from FUIComponentClass and i was able to register all other skins over registerSkinElement but my label textfild refusing to use globalStyleFormat
wenn i say on my main timeline
globalStyleFormat.color=0xffccff;
NOTHING HAPPEN

does anybody knows how to register "color" property of my component to the globalStyleFormat?

i watched it in debuger and under listeners i could see that globalStyleFormat listening to btn_mc(which is instanc of my comp) but dispite of that it doesnt work
i even tryed to force it inside my comp class-constructor
over
globalStyleFormat.addListener(this);
but again nothing happen.
do i have to do some more inheriting from some other classes or what?
PLEASE HELP?
(ok, i know i could do it over textColor property of Text format or over comp-defined parameters but i wont it to be skinnable via Actionscript dynamicly)
BEGGING FOR HELP!

[F8] Skin Listbox Component, Transparent Border
Heh guys,
Have been scouring the web for some time now in search of a way to skin the listbox component and specifically, either remove the listbox border or make it appear transparent. I have found that to skin the listbox, you need to first skin the UIscrollbar as desired (done that), and then use setStyle upon rectBorder.. how is this done?? and is there a way of making the border appear transparent?

I've been searching high and low, everywhere I can think of to answer this question but am pulling dead ends wherever i turn so any help is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Dave

Dynamically Customise Button Component Skin
Hi all,

I building a CS3/AS3 touch-screen kiosk application using a Flash GUI embedded in a .NET wrapper to allow for db/hardware integration.
I'm trying to allow our clients to dynamically customise the colour (and therefore skins) of the pre-built component buttons. This used to be possible in AS2 with an external class although I believe it is now deprecated (according to Adobe livedocs anyway).

I can access/customise the button labels for size and colour, but not the actual individual skins for overSkin, downSkin etc. Is there anyway to do this dynamically so that I can change the colour at run time from some settings in an external XML file ?

Alternatively, is it possible to access the Component Assets in the library at runtime and change the colours/skins for all the buttons there? I'm guessing they're beyond editing at this stage as they have been compiled.

Any suggestions gratefully received!
thanks,
Joel

SwapDepth - FLVPlayer Component And Custom Skin
How would I do a "swap depth" for actionscript3?

I am trying to reskin and customize the FLVPlayer component in Flash CS3 (AS3). I am calling the component and creating settings via actionscript (not by dragging the component to the stage) and I would like artwork to appear both above and below the component, and the custom player components and buttons to appear above the video. Right now, the stacking order is such that the player appears on top of everything, even UI elements, and even on top of artwork that is on a layer above the layer with the AS that calls the FLVPlayer.

How can I properly set the stacking order? I know I can't do swapdepth with AS3.

This is the code I currently have:

Code:
import com.liquidprint.video.FLVPlaybackPro;

var fpp:FLVPlaybackPro = new FLVPlaybackPro();

fpp.x = 103.5;
fpp.y = 22;
fpp.playPauseButton = myplayBtn;
fpp.seekBar = myseekBar;
fpp.height = 400;
fpp.width = 533;
fpp.source = "http://www.liquidprint.com/services/liquidprintvideo.flv";
fpp.autoPlay = true;

addChild(fpp);

List Component Skin Or Style Problem
I am building a scrolling list that pulls data from a xml file, and binds the data to a list component

I am trying to figure out how to change the look of the list component.
I need to create a rounded backgound for each list item and I would like to use a symbol for this.
I can't find a setStyle property to change this and if I try to adjust the HaloTheme.fla there is no List symbol to change.

How do I access the graphic being used by the list component?

Thanks for any help

Change Media Playback Component Skin
I've managed to add video using .flv format in a media play back component. But i can't change the controls buttons' look and feal. I knew that flash MX 2004 professional has a set of external fla files that is controlling the skin of the these components.

One of the documentation in my machine shows that using the "Open external library" in File >> Import command. And then drag that library file to our file's library and change the movie clips. But the changes are not reflected here. Since the media play back is a compiled movie clip we can't do anything directly on it.
This has totally destroyed all my plans on this movie'

Adding Skin Header To Accordion Component
I'm trying to add different header icons for an accordion component.  I have multiple movie clips with different skins in each one and I can't apply multiple skins to each child of the accordion.  This is the code that I'm using but I need it applyied to different headers of the children
onClipEvent(initialize)
{
  trueUpSkin = "LeftPanel0";
  trueDownSkin = "LeftPanel0";
  trueOverSkin = "LeftPanel0";
  trueDisabledSkin = "LeftPanel0";
}

I used this code but it wouldn't work.
onClipEvent(initialize)
{
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(0).trueUpSkin = "LeftPanel0";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(0).trueDownSkin = "LeftPanel0";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(0).trueOverSkin = "LeftPanel0";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(0).trueDisabledSkin = "LeftPanel0";

_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(1).trueUpSkin = "LeftPanel3";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(1).trueDownSkin = "LeftPanel2";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(1).trueOverSkin = "LeftPanel2";
_parent.myAccord.getChildAt(1).trueDisabledSkin = "LeftPanel2";
}
Any ideas??????

Changing A Button Component Skin In MX 2004
Hi, how do you change the button skin in flash mx 2004??

or make it light a different color other than green??

any ideas??

Regards,

Martin

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Skin Listbox Component, Transparent Border
Hi,
Is there any way to remove the border around the listbox component?

I've scoured the web and help, completed Lee's skining V2 components tutorial and read all the posts relating to this problem but am still not getting it. From what I understand from reading some of Hasan's comments and stuff in help; to skin the listbox effectively, you must first skin the UIscrollbar (done that) and then use setstyle on the rectBorderclass which, will apparently respond to 'borderStyle'.
I've tried every variation of code I can think of but nothing seems to affect its appearance.

My question therefore is, how do I setStyle this border so that it appears transparent

Thanks,
Dave

Adding Extra Features To FLVPlayback Component Skin
Hi There,

Can I add Textfields to a "FLVPlayback Component Skin" entering values like playheadtime & totaltime.
Other than that... how can I have additional Moviclips... because I was my created MCs are not reflecting.

Thanks in Advance,
Siraj R Khan
khan_siraj@yahoo.com
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Avoid Auto Hide In FLVPlayback Component Skin
Hi all,

I dont want my FLVPlayback skin to hide. I tried myFLVPlayback.skinAutoHide = false .. but it doesnt seem to help. Does anybody has any idea how to do it thru AS3??

Thanks in Advance,
Siraj

Scaling Problem Using Masked Layer In Component Skin
Hi,

My artist is fond of making clips with a masked layer where the animation in the mask layer is larger than the mask.

I'm having problems using these effectively as component skins, because the component logic wants to scale the skin so that it is the same size as the component. To do this it's basically taking the height and width of the skin and scaling it so it matches the size of the component.

The problem with these masked clips is that the total height/width of the skin is apparently determined by that big masked layer, not the actual visible size of the mask. It seems weird because the actual symbol's height and width matches the visible size, not the size including the masked layer. But for whatever reason, the component logic uses that "hidden" size for its scaling, with the result that the skin shows up visibly smaller than I want it to be.

This may be hard to understand from the written description, so I've made a demo FLA. The hidden masked layer is roughly twice the width of the mask. When used as a progress bar skin, it only fills up about half of the progress bar track when bar is full. (Enter 10 in the text box for a full bar.)

(I posted this demo FLA on a different forum that allows file attachments, so you can grab it from there: Masking Skin Demo FLA)

Anyone know a way to work around this problem?

Change The Skin Of Media Play Back Component
I've made a video play back (flash FLV) usng media play back components in flash mx 2004. Everything perfectly workng but i want to change the look and feel of the control buttons. I couldn't find any options for the same. Any idea. Is there any other video play back components available ...

thanks in adavnec

How To Disable A Single Button In FLVPlayback Component Skin?
Hi,
I have a few videos that have no audio, so I don't want any volume or mute controls at all. I chose a skin that doesn't have a volume button, but there isn't one that also has no mute button. Basically, I was wondering if there's a simple method for simply turning off the mute button, visually, and functionally? Nothing really any more fancy than that.

I've read this little tutorial on it, but can't figure out how to adapt this to disabling the mute button only:
http://nerdabilly.wordpress.com/2007.../#comment-2119

If anyone can give advice on this I'd be much obliged!

preesh,
blunderbus

How To Skin The TextArea Component Scrollbar Face And Track?
Hello, everyone.

I am currently working on a Flash file making use of a few pre-built components. One of them is the text area component to load some external content.

I should like to be able to style its scrollbar to my liking, i.e. I should like it to receive the haloOrange theme in its entirety. I applied some skinning now visible on scrollbar arrows (top and bottom), but was unable to extend it to affect the scrollbar face or track. I checked the Flash help on this subject and there were no parameters to this effect, so I concluded this was not possible. However, I remembered seeing the desired effect (haloGreen in their case) applied earlier on Macromedia (now Adobe) Exchange (see the image below), and should be most grateful if somebody suggested the piece of ActionScript code necessary for it to work.

This is the code I have applied so far:

Code:
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor", "false");
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("themeColor", "haloOrange");
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("borderStyle", "solid");

Scroll Bar Component Doesn't Scroll When Dynamic Txt Is Used?
I have a dynamic text box with the Flash UI component "Scroll Bar" attached to it. It works and scrolls fine when you enter text directelly into the dynamic box but when you use the loadVariables command to load an external txt file into it, it fails to scroll the text?
Is there a way to get it to scroll?

thx Bk9

Adding Textfields/MCs To A "FLVPlayback Component Skin"
Can I add Textfields to a "FLVPlayback Component Skin" entering values like playheadtime & totaltime.
Other than that... how can I have additional Moviclips... because I was my created MCs are not reflecting.

Thanks in Advance,
Siraj R Khan [khan_siraj@yahoo.com]

Please Help Explain: Difference Btw Seekbar In A Skin And Seekbar Standalone Component
Hi,

I am confused about the follwing, can someobe please enlighten me.

I noticed that the "Seekbar" component inside any of the default skins (e.g StellOverAll.fla) is just a place holder, it has 2 layers with one layer having just an outline of a rectangle. And the SeebarProgress and the SeekbarHandle are place somewhere else inside the Skin component. However, if I select the "Seekbar" component from the component window and place it on the stage and double click to look inside, I can see 4 layers, with the SeekbarProgress component in one layer and the SeebarHandle on another layer.

So my question is the following:

1. Is the "Seekbar" component in the skin DIFFERENT than the "Seebar" component from the Component Window?

2. How does the "Seekbar" component in the skin interact with the "SeekbarProgress" and "SeekbarHandle" components in the skin, when they are OUTSIDE the "Seekbar" component?

Any answer will be greatly appreciated.

Scroll Component Dont Scroll
my scroll component dont scroll

please can you look why?

thanks

jan

Can't Scroll With Scroll Bar From Component
Flash Gurus,
I have a dynamic text field that loads txt from an external source. I slapped a scroll bar next to it ( from the components menu) when I command enter nothing happens . I see the text ( the part that fits in) but can't scroll.
Properties as follow :
Dynamic Text field has var assigned ( for the external text) and an instance name
Scrollbar Has above instance name in target Text filed

I don't know what else I can include.

Can anyone help ?

thanX

Scroll Bar Component
I've put a scrollbar (UI Component) and a textfield which can display the value of a variable (call it "a").

However, when I assign values to "a" using actionscripts, the scrollbar doesn't work even the textfield is not large enough to show all the contents.

What's the problem?

Scroll Component
Hi, dunno if I should have posted this in the n00b section =), but anyway here goes..

I got a scroller component from a magazine (Computer Arts #33) and I was able to get it to work fine. But when the swf with the scroll component is loaded into my main movie the draggable part of the scrollbar stops working =(

I think it might have to do with that the different component parts refer to "_parent" instead of a specific target.. but that's just my guess.. i dont know any actionscript, so ill leave the problem to yuz guyz =)

You can download the files from http://www.acceon.net

Thanx!

Scroll Bar Component
Hi,

I just made a dynamic text box and filled it with text that was bigger than the box. The extra text was hidden right.
I dropped in the scrollbar component gave it a target and it worked great. I closed the file. The when I reopened it the text box had resized to the size of the text. Like the excess wasn't hidden anymore. I tried to resize it smaller than the text and it doesn't want to shrink smaller. Why? Thanks

Scroll Box Component
hello does anybody know where i can find a tutorial on how to make my own scroll box to scroll movie clip, i dont want to use the built in component the buttons are to big i would prefer buttons which will match the look of my site

thanks

brian

Scroll Bar Component?
I'm duplicating a mc with scrolling text in each one but some of them haven't got enough text to scroll so the scrollbar isn't needed. Is there any way to hide the scrollbar component when its not needed?

Scroll Component
I was hoping someone could help me.

How can I increase the speed of the scroll component?

Scroll Component
now that i finally figured out how to make it work, i cant figure out how to change it's appearance. is it possible?

Php To Scroll Component
I have this php page that I'm pulling into a dynamic text box connected to a scroll bar component. It works fine when I'm looking at my site locally, but doesn't work on my live site. Here is the code I used:

Code:
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load("http://www.listenfaster.com/blueq/flash_news.php");
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading");
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.var1;
} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
};

Scroll Component
Ok I got the scroll to work but text will go on for ever to the right. I mean I have the text box the size I want and the text keeps going under the scroll bar to the right until I push enter then it comes back to where it is suppose to. Also the text is double spaced. How do I fix?

Also I am new if you couldn't figure it out

Thanks

Scroll Bar Component
Hello all,
I have a scroll bar question. Is there something special that I need to do when using this component with a dynamic text field that is importing the text in order for it to work. I have no trouble with the scroll bar when using it on a dynamic text field when the text is created within Flash. I only have trouble when the text is imported. The parameters for the scroll tell me that it is attached to the text field, but when I publish, the text shows up and the scroll bar is disabled. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

Please Please Help Me. Scroll Bar Component
i have NEVER been about to get the scroll bar component to work in MX. I have no clue what im doing wrong. I've looked at several tutorials about it, and followed them, and still cant get it to work

im trying to attach the scroll bar to a dynamic text field, I get the text to come up in the test, but it wont scroll. its attached to the instance as well, but still nothing. please help me.