Flash :: Skinning Halo Components

Skinning Components?
Hi,

I'm re-skinning a component, (ComboBox) , and am trying to change the colour of the text in the dropdown (its black at the moment).

I have figured out that under - Global Skins - Lable - is where you are supposed to be able to change colours/fonts etc, but I can only seem to change the font??, NOT the colour.

Whatever I change it to, it always shows up black when i test my movie.

Anybody else having trouble skinning mx's components??

Thanks,

Chris

Help Skinning Components
I'm using MX 2004, trying to alter a scrollpane, and I found some code that oldnewbie posted a while back that would fit, but I don't know where to put the code...I read some other posts and the PDF w/ flash about changing that stuff.

but I can't get the Flash UI Components folder to show up in the library. I'm assuming that we're all talking about the same library...the one that shows up when you go to Window > Library. Another user said that the folder should show up when you put a component into your fla.

So now I'm really confused as far as finding this stupid folder...I'm just making a new fla and dragging the scrollpane component into the window, but when I check the Library, it says there's 1 object...the scrollpane. No folders. How can I find this stupid Flash UI Components folder to change the code of it?

Skinning V2 Components
Hey...
can someone point me to a really good, well written tutorial on skinning v2 components? In particular, I want to re-skin the scrollbar component.
I've done it manually before and I've also done it using A.S. with so-so results.
I really just need to simplify the graphics so they are flat colors, rectangles, no shadows, etc.
Any help is much appreciated.

~Big 'Un

Skinning Components
Does anyone know of a tried and true, step by step, beginning's type of tutorial for skinning components? Can you skin the scrollbar on a text area?

Please englighten me!

Skinning Of Components By AS3.0
How to apply skinning to combo box using AS3.0

Skinning CS3 Components
I'm having trouble understanding how to skin the flash components other than just changing around the original skin. I've looked over google and the docs and haven't had much luck. What I want to do is change the color of a row on the datagrid based on a value. But I'll settle for changing the text color, setting the row as "selected" by default with actionscript instead of the mouse or changing individual cells, but I haven't had a whole lot of luck figuring out how.

Here are some things that I'd tries that don't work:

var middleRow:Object = dg.getItemAt(1);
middleRow.selected=true;
middleRow.setStyle("backgroundColor",0xFFFF00);
dg.setStyle("backgroundColor",0xFFFF00);

All of these don't do anything, I don't get an error but no colors change either.

Can someone help? Thanks so much!

Skinning V2 Components
I had the hardest time trying to skin the scrollbar (which is a subcomponent) for the TextArea component. Finding no definitive answer in any one place, I did however piece together enough information to finally accomplish just that.

Here's the steps I took to do it.....

1. I opened the HaloTheme.fla
(Path.....Flash root installation folder>en>FirstRun>ComponentFLA>HaloTheme.fla

2. Save as myTheme.fla (or any other name you choose)

3. Open Library (Ctrl+L)

4. Inside the Flash UI Components 2 folder navigate to Theme>MMDefault

5. Open each folder for the component you wish to skin and break it down to the core assets and modify to your liking

6. Save fla after all modifications are made

To Use Your Modified Skin

1. Open a new Flash document (Save As and name it as you wish...here I'll use appliedTheme.fla)

2. Open the myTheme.fla file (or your choice)

3. Drag the Flash UI Components 2 folder from the myTheme.fla library to the stage of appliedTheme.fla

4. You now have the Flash UI Components 2 folder in the appliedTheme.fla....just use the components from the Components Panel as before

I'm sure there are other ways, but that worked for me. I know it has to possible with AS too. (I was able to do the TextArea background with AS but not the scrollbar). I did the TextArea with....

ActionScript Code:
// Change background color of TextField component instance myText_txt.setStyle("backgroundColor", "0x5a6970") myText_txt.setStyle("borderColor", "0x6e818a") /*Outside Top and Bottom*/ myText_txt.setStyle("highlightColor", "0xabc9d6") /*Inside Top*/ myText_txt.setStyle("shadowColor", "0xabc9d6") /*Inside Bottom*/ myText_txt.setStyle("borderCapColor", "0x6e818a") /*Outside Left and Right*/ myText_txt.setStyle("shadowCapColor", "0xabc9d6") /*Inside Left and Right*/

Skinning Components
Hi,
I wonder wich code I need to put in actionscript to not have a srollbar in a list component. I know the one for border for example : myList..setStyle("borderStyle","none");
Is there something for scrollbars????
Or is there anybody that knows a complete list for all styles???
Thank's a lot

Skinning V2 Components
Does anyone know of any good tutorials or maybe other components you can buy to skin. I need to skin a scrollbar, accordian, checkbox, and dropdown lists. But skinning Macromedia's stuff is terrible.

Let me know of any good resources thanks.

Skinning The COMPONENTS
Hello guys,

Now i have a problem...i try to change the theme for a component, but nothing works!!!(for exemple for datagrid) Do you have anyidea where i can find some skins(themes) for the flahs components. I'm using Fl8!

I'm thinking to create a .mxp for skinning the flash components. Do you think this exist?

Skinning Components Methods
1)

sf = new FStyleFormat();
sf.face = 0x00ff00;
sf.addListener(componentName);

2)

componentName.setStyleProperty("face", 0x00ff00);

3)

globalStyleFormat.face = 0x00ff00;
globalStyleFormat.applyChanges();

1) operates on a component instance; 2) operates to change a style within an instance; and 3) operates on all components

Mark

Skinning Flash 7 Components
Does anybody know how I can skin Flash 7 Components?

Skinning AS3 Components Tutorial
I need a good tutorial on how to skin AS3 components, plz!
I am in a hurry to figure this out for my job, so all the help you could provide is much appreciated, or simply pointing me to the right source would be helpful also!

[CS3] Skinning/formatting Components
Hi,

Being still very new to this and trying desperately to find my English to ActionScript dictionary, I am having an issue with making adjustments to components. I am working on an interactive module and I would like to make a scrolling textarea, but cannot seem to figure out how. I tried Listbox, but it was not what I was looking for. I also cannot seem to get the textarea to alter the font type and the size of the font. I did find a few references online, but I couldn't really follow them very well. What little bit of AS I do know is in AS2.0, as it seemed to click in my head a little better at first. Either way I have hit a brick wall, and I am sure it's something obvious and I am just missing it. Ah, the learning curve.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

-blackseraph

Customizing (Skinning) Components
Please, I ahve been trying to find some info on skinning the Scroll Bar component for example... I can not find anything to the moment. Can anybody give me a good suggestion ? This is not only for Scroll bar.. if you also have the know-how for other components..please let me know... Thanx in advance !

Skinning Components Not Working In CS3
Ok well I know that you can drag a component on to the stage and double click it to add a new skin. I think I may have a setting wrong somewhere because no matter what I do I can't re-skin any of the components. Do I need to set the publish prefs to anything special to do this?

Any help would be great!

TIA,

Wes/

Edited: 08/01/2007 at 04:04:07 PM by graphicskills

Skinning A Listbox Components
...how can i chage the default skin like the listbox components..

[AS 2.0, Components] Skinning Problems
Dear all

I'm trying to change skin of Accordion inside my custom component, without luck so far.
I don't have problems with skinning accordion when it's on scene, with:

import mx.controls.Accordion;
Accordion.prototype.falseUpSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.falseDownSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.falseOverSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.falseDisabled = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.trueUpSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.trueDownSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.trueOverSkin = "AccSkin";
Accordion.prototype.trueDisabledSkin = "AccSkin";

Or something like that.
However when Accordion is inside my custom component it doesn't work. Any hints?

P.S.
Accordion is a field inside component class, let's say:
var public myAccordion:Accordion, created inside createChildren call.
I would love to change skin from movie, not inside component class.

Skinning Flash 8 Components
Hi all :D,

Just wondered if you can give me a hand with this. I want to skin the flash8 components and followed the tutorial given my adobe... http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/skinning.html.

I changed the colour of i.e. the DateCHooser component in the HALO.fla but it doesnt seem to work ... The tutorial doesnt describe how to change the linkage identifiers. I made a BACKUP and changed the Halo file itself then I shouldnt have to change any code right or linkages right ?

thanks for help :D

Skinning Media Components
Is there any info on skinning the MediaPlayer component new in 2004?

I went to Macromedia's site and found instructions to find this file: ....Macromedia Flash MX 2004languageConfigurationComponentFLA.fla.

(btw, I actually found the file in "First Run" folder)

After making a copy of the original, I modified the component's graphics, tested it and it looked great. But then, it for some reason it didnt translate to any other of my projects. How exactly do I apply the re-skin???

Any Tutorials Out There On Skinning Components?
Hey all, anyone know of any tutorials on customizing the skin of flash mx 2004 components?

Thanks, ob

Skinning Version 2 Components
does anyone know how? care to share? the only tutorial i could find wanted me to pay

Skinning Flash 8 Components
Hello, i am trying skinning the textarea component but since i am quite newby to components i don?t succedd.

I have flash 8 and readed somewhere that i have to look for the component in the folder : C:Program Files/Macromedia/Flash 8/en/Configuration/ComponentFLA/HaloTheme.fla

Skinning Flash 8 Components
I was wondering if someone could explain or direct me to a place that would allow me to better understand how you skin components in Flash 8?

I found this tutorial:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/ ... components

and it explains how to do it for buttons (towards the bottom of the page) but I would like to be able to skin a scrollbar (beyond setting the style).

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Documentation For Skinning Scrollbars For V2 Components
Anyone have or know where some documentation for skinning the scrollbars in the v2 components can be found. The help isnt very helpful in regard to the scrollbar. I figure you would use UIObject.setSkin () but what am I setting. heh. I've looked all over, I must be overlooking it.

i.e. the scrollbar for the text area, or scrollpane...etc. etc.

Flash MX Themes, Skinning Components...
Has anybody successfully created their own new theme using MX's skinning method and applied it to a new document? And if so, where did you begin? I have lots of books and tons of print outs, but all of the info I find is extremely vague and everyone just seems to be confused about editing components in MX. I've edited a few of the components starting with the halo theme, but I can't seem to apply it to a new document very easily.

Shouldn't I be able to apply the theme to the entire document at once??? For example,(assuming I applied the theme correctly) say I drag a scroll pane instance to the stage and add content. Now shouldn't it have the new theme that I just applied to the document?...or--do I need to apply the theme to each component on the stage using ActionScript?

Multiple Skinning Of V2 Components At Runtime.
Hi guys,

I have a problem to change skins the component at runtime. Means on selecting a option from combo box there should be change the skin of UI Scrollbar.

I hope anyone will have the solutions to solve the issues.

with extrem hopes,
saurabh

Skinning Components And Augment Error #2025
Ok so I posted about looking for a reasonable way to programatically reskin a component. I am making decent progress there, but I am running into a frustrating issue that I can't figure out. It doesn't help that Adobe's page that lists runtime errors doesn't appear to be working right now.

Anyway, I am reskinning a combobox component. There is a portion of my code that appears to be breaking things, but I don't understand why.

ActionScript Code:
/*build display objects for each skin I need to create using the color settings etc.*/

myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("upSkin",upSkin);
myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("overSkin",overSkin);
myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("downSkin",downSkin);
myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("selectedDownSkin",selDownSkin);
myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("selectedOverSkin",selOverSkin);
myCombo.dropdown.setRendererStyle("selectedUpSkin",selUpSkin);

I have verified the validity of the skin objects passed in for each of those commands. If I have upskin being set at all then I get my runtime exception right away. If I don't set upskin then it will operate well with scrolling, selecting etc for a while then I will get my error after a few times opening and closing the combobox.

I get the following error:

Code:
ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
at fl.controls::ComboBox/close()
at fl.controls::ComboBox/fl.controls:ComboBox::onToggleListVisibility()
If upSkin is set then I get the error almost immediately when I open a dropdown. Otherwise I can reproduce it if I do the following:
1. open the dropdown and select an item.
2. Open it and select another item.
3. open the dropdown and select the one I had previously selected.
4. try to open the dropdown.

any ideas?

any ideas????

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking here.

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)

to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace all instances of the halo 'theme' color (#00FF00) with the new one (#DECA8D)? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any type of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking the following link.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003011.html

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)

to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace the original 'theme' color (#00FF00) to the new one (#DECA8D)? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any type of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance,
Brett

Trouble Skinning Standard Components In Flash 8
I'm attempting to apply skins/styles to standard components (such as RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox) in Flash 8 Professional. I have followed the instructions supplied in Flash Help ... with no luck.

The instructions I have followed are accessible by clicking the following link.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003011.html

I've determined that all I really need to do is change every instance of the 'theme' color in the Halo Theme ...

from ... #00FF00 (which is a fluorescent Green)
to ... #DECA8D (tan)

Is there a way to simply replace the original 'theme' color (#00FF00) to the new one (#DECA8D) using ActionScript? As stated earlier I have followed the instructions contained within the Flash Help associated with this topic to a "T" ... but it basically just consisted of manually changing the 'theme' colors. They didn't outline any use of ActionScript ... which I find hard to believe - that changes of this nature wouldn't require any code.

I really hope someone can simply inform me of something I'm missing - or there's a 'quick' fix.

Thanks in advance,
Brett

Skinning: Changing Background Alpha Of Components
Anybody knows how to change the background alpha of components. Per example for the "window" component?

Thanks

Halo Look Around Text?
I want to make a halo glow around some static header text, similar to the look in the hotswap name at www.signmediasystems.com. I want to do it in Flash and not have to import it from Photoshop.

Does anyone know how to do it?

Thanks,
Jeff

Halo Affect
Does anyone know how to do the affect used in the halo game.?Before the level its a black screen and while its loading a vertical strip shows the picture behind.

Halo Sounds
I am currently making a Halo movie, but I need authentic sounds (or close.) If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very greatfull. Thanks in advance.

What I have done can be seen here.

Halo Dos Statistics
I have Halo 2 stats checker and for some reason it will not work when I upload the files to the internet. I have the file attached to this.

Halo Menu
Hi there, there is a lot of code involved with this and its a bit out of my league. I have put links to the files, please feel free to save and browse them. Its a bit of a jumble but until I can fix it I am stuck.

I have adapted an example to suit my needs, but now would like to add a main header option but do not know how. I have added it and done everything the same as the others (i think) but it wont work.

Adapted nav bar to my original needs that works:
http://www.freewebs.com/kts-clan/kts...0nav%20bar.fla

Attempted nav bar with extra header:
http://www.freewebs.com/kts-clan/kts...0extend%29.fla

Halo Theme
Hi!

How do i change de halo theme to another theme?
I made a new theme based on halo theme (i just change that green color to blue).
How do i aply my new theme?

Thanks

Text Box Halo
How can I get rid of the halo around input text boxes. They light up only when you tab to them. Any suggestions? Thanks

Alpha Symbol Halo's
I am having a problem with a 0% alpha "button" symbol.

i am loading a external .swf in a higher level on top of a "main" menu. when the .swf comes in, everything works fine but some of the button boxes (red boxes over text that have a 0% alpha) have the underlying color (green, which is the background area color) but in a lighter shade which shows the outline of the boxes. i want these clickable shapes to be invisible. on my monitor, i cannot see them, but at my friends house i can. what am i doing wrong?

thanks -jeff

Halo Behing Text. Please Help
I know this may be simple, but I am missing something.

If you go to www.estudio.com at the top navigation, when you mouse over a choice, a cloud like halo appears behind the text. How does one do that? I was trying to do the same thing, but it's not working for me. I have a black background. is that the problem? I tried doing a white square with low alpha but that just makes it look grey.

How do we get the haze looking effect?

Component Halo Ring
I'm using the MediaController. When I click on any of the buttons, I get a green ring that oultlines the button, and doesn't go away unless I click on something else. It's annoying and my client wants it gone. I found a great post here: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=40603 that explains how to remove the ring from the ComboBox component:

comboBox.drawFocus = "";
comboBox.dropdown.drawFocus="";

The first line removes the ring around the entire box, the second line removes it from the drop down. My problem seems to be referenceing the differnt parts of the MediaController..I can't seem to find any good documentaion on this...I've tried:

myVideo.drawFocus="";
myVideo.volume.drawFocus="";
myVideo.playheadChange.drawFocus="";
myVideo.pause.drawFocus="";
myVideo.play.drawFocus="";

So far none remove the outline. Any ideas??

Thanks in advance!
Lawrence

Skinning Halo Components

hi buddys !someone knows, how to skin a halo component like this picture ?http://macromedia.com/showcase/cases...creenshot2.gif , changing the dafault green to blue, or another color, thx

hi buddys !

someone knows, how to skin a halo component like this picture ?

http://macromedia.com/showcase/cases...creenshot2.gif

, changing the dafault green to blue, or another color, thx