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Component Skinning Help
Hello everyone..

Can anybody help me?

I need to skin some components like the textarea and the combobox.

Now as I seen in ultrashock you can change the skin "easilly" by changing a theme. The problem is pro example the textarea aren't in the themes!!!

So how can i skin this control without this. (i can change the scrollbars by changing the assets of the scrollbar), but i cannot change the text (or i can't find a place to do it) in there.

I know that you can do it by code, but the problem is that i need to give this to a designer who don't know actionscript to change the aspect of things, so i don't know what to do since i can't change some stuff in "design mode".

Thanks.

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Component Skinning
Hi,
I have following problem:
I'm trying to remove the border of a scrollbar and of a scrollpane, i've already done that with following code:

my_component.setStyle("borderStyle","none");

It worked pretty well, but now my component is inside a mc, and althoug i place this code in the frame where the component is placed nothig happens.

Does somebody know what is wrong?

The second question: Is there any easy way to change the scrollbar of a scrollpane, or maybe a whay to create my own scrollpane?

Thanks a lot,
Peter

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Skinning A Component With AS
Hi all,

I'm trying to change the graphics on the UIScrollBar component (which is attached to a scrollpane). Problem is, any that I specify an alternate movieclip (skin) for are not showing up. For example, if I specify the mouse over clip for the scrollbars arrows, they disappear.

I opened the standard and halo theme provided FLA files and copied the entire ScrollBar Assets folder over to my project. I altered the graphics and just tried it like this (making sure asset MCs were export in first frame). That had no effect. I then specified some changes in the init portion of my createClassObject() (e.g. {ScrollUpArrowOver:"SomeValidLinkageID"}) but the clip just keeps disappearing. Since the change is global to my whole project I started adding it to the prototype (e.g. mx.controls.UIScrollBar.prototype.upArrowOverName = "SomeValidLinkageID";), and that does (you guessed it), the same thing.. disappears!

How can I change the graphics on a scrollpane components scrollbar that I'm dynamically adding via createClassObject()??

Thanks for any info!

edit:

I should note that if I comment out the prototype lines or the init object declarations and such, the scrollpanes scrollbar goes back to normal. So I'm sure I'm affecting the right scrollpane with the code. I copied the assets from the FLAs flash comes with (via open external library and dragging into my project) so I'm sure the movieclips I'm using are good (I didn't make 'em). I didn't make any drastic changes to the movieclips, I literally changed the themeColor of the clips, just to see if I could do it so it can't be some wacky movieclip issue. I also tried enabling export on first frame for each clip I'm using as a skin (and tried with export in first frame disabled) and neither have any effect.

Edited: 05/20/2008 at 10:16:34 AM by ominous93

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Skinning The Scrollbar Component
Is there any way to 'correctly' skin macromedia's scrollbar component.

I don't mean just change the collors through actionscript, but I mean changing its entire look.

I've done it a few times by searching the library for anything relating to it and then changing the symbols from there, but its really messy, and I have a feeling thats not the right way of doing it.

Can anyone point me to some tutorials on how to do this correctly?

Thanks!

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Skinning A Button Component
Okay I have been trying to skin the button component, but it appears that since MM uses the drawing features of flash to draw a button component that it is impossible to get rid of the default background.

Code:
// I am dynamically adding a button and setting it's skin movies like this
var NextButton = new Object();
NextButton.falseUpIcon = "MyUpIcon";
NextButton.falseDownIcon = "MyDownIcon";
NextButton.trueUpIcon = "MyUpIcon";
createClassObject(mx.controls.Button, "MyButton", 0, NextButton);
MyButton._x = 200;
MyButton._y = 200;
MyButton.trackAsMenu = true;
MyButton.onPress = function()
{
trace("hello");
}
Still though the button draws it's default border. Can anyone tell me of a better way to accomplish this with the component button?

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Skinning Scroll Bar Component
whats the easist way to edit the appearence of the scrollpane component?

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Component Skinning Issue
Hi all, firstly, y has component skinning become so hard???

I am using a scrollpane in my movie, when i drag the slider (or bring the pane into focus) i get an ugly green line around the scrollpane box.

I would ideally like to edit the box so you cant see it against a white bg, but just getting rid of the green line would be a help! I have attached an image for you to see.

Si

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Skinning A TextArea Component...?
I´m using a textArea component in my scene...I´ve imported the theme "SampleTheme.fla", edited the scrollBar assets and dragged them into my new *.fla.
Now - why aren´t these changes in my new *.fla when I run the movie?!
Is there any code I need to apply to my component on stage to make it use my modified theme?!

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Skinning Scroll Bar Component Mx 04
i can't get the scroll area of any componet to change??
i tryied _global.style.setStyle("scrollTrackColor", "0xD3DDE7");

but nothing hapened?

i would like to change the scrollTrackColor and the thumb gripper thing that mooves inside it... i would like to do it with script.

please help

i have been working from here http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...tml/wwhelp.htm

n8o

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MX2004 Component Skinning
Hi,

I know how to change the skins of the Halothemes of components. However, i have a problem changing the appearance of the combobox component. The MX component had a rectangular shape with a black border but the MX2004 combobox has a fuzzy round shape border. How do i change that? Do not tell me to use the MX components ( ).

Thanks for any advice.

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Skinning The Alert Component
This I use for skinning my buttons

mx.controls.Button.prototype.falseUpSkin = "BlueButtonUpSkin";

How can I get this to work on the buttons inside the alert component. ??

Ive tied this:
mx.controls.Button.prototype.Alert.buttonUp = "BlueButtonUpSkin";

eg this http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...=00002076.html

Have a nice day :-)

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More Component Skinning/styling ?'s
more component skinning/styling ?'s

I cant seem to find out how to:

1.) change my drop down box to have SQURE corners instead of the halo ones.. I want 'simple' ones I guess..

2.) cant figure how to change the BORDER of the comboBox..I can change it for the drop down of the comboBox..but not the comboBox itself.

and 3.. I still cant figure out how to change the scrollbar in the tree component.

PLEASE..anyone..throw me a bone here..

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[F8] List Component Skinning
Is there a way to make the background color alternate per item? and how can i change those colors?

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Skinning ProgressBar Component
Hey all,

I have a nice little flash slideshow that uses the ProgressBar Component to give the user an indication that something's going on as all the images pre-load.

I want to skin the ProgressBar Component so that it looks like the "Apple-style" indeterminate spinning gear (basically, a circular indeterminate progress indicator rather than a bar).

I thought I could just assign a new MovieClip of a spinning gear to the progress bar's indeterminate state, but that doesn't seem to work (code follows):

pBar.progBarIndName = "SpinningGear";

Where "SpinningGear" is the linkage identifier of the movie clip I'd like to use.

Any thoughts? I've seen this style of indeterminate progress used a lot online and would appreciate any light you can shed on this.

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Component Skinning.. It Can't Be Thát Hard, Can It?
Hi all,

I've got a question that's been bothering me waaaaaay to long:

Since flash 8 I haven't been able to customize my components properly..
Basically what I want is not to 'style' the components saying 'borderColor = bla bla'
but to create my own truly custommade buttons/borders & backgrounds but with
all the backend functionality of the components.

Do I do this by making my own 'theme'? that I save here:

C:Program FilesMacromediaFlash 8enConfigurationComponentFLAmyOwnTheme.fla

If so, how do I attach this theme to a component?
Does anyone know where I can find a step-by-step explanation of the implementation
of this? Or are there easier ways of doing this?

Thanks,
Albert

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Component Skinning Tutorial?
Can someone point me to a GOOD component skinning tutorial?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but it doesn't seem obvious to me...thx!

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Skinning Datagrid Component
Hi there,
I am working on a project in which data will be fetched via php and then should be displayed as a vertical list. I am using Datagrid Component, my ques is: is it possible to dynamically dispaly data thru php in a Datagrid comp; if yes, how? And how to skin this comp so as to match the design that I am attaching here. The design is of the scrollbars only, the background should be grey.
Pls help me out.

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Component Skinning Tutorial?
Can someone point me to a GOOD component skinning tutorial?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but it doesn't seem obvious to me...thx!

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Textarea Component Skinning
Hi,

I need to use two differently skinned textareas in one flash movie. I've renamed the first textarea to textarea1 in the library, but when I drag a new textarea onto the stage, it tries to replace the first textarea.

Is there a way to load two so that I can customize each?

Thanks!

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Skinning Datagrid Component
I'm trying to customize the datagrid component. I've gone through skinning tutorials online and what little there is in Macromedia's own docs. My biggest complaint is that the SampleTheme.FLA file they provide as an example doesn't even work with the datagrid. In the sample theme file, they've changed the background header graphic but it doesn't actually change a datagrid component's header background (it still uses the deafult Halo theme when rendered). I'm not sure how they expect users to skin components if they can't get it right themselves.

OK - sorry. Done with my griping. Back to the issue.

Has anyone tried skinning a datagrid? Here's what I did:

- created a new doc
- dragged a datagrid onto the stage (this happens whether the datagrid is attached to a dataprovide or not),
- open the SampleTheme.FLA's library as an external library (in this file, the datagrid asset for the background graphic has been changed)
- dragged in the Flash UI OCMponents 2 folder to my original doc
- exported
- Results: the border and scrollbars of the datagrid change, but not the headers. Those still have the Halo theme applied.

My guess is that somewhere in the component actionscripts, the headers are not "listening" to the new graphics. Does anyone have any idea what this could be?

AAARGH! I'm just a designer.

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Trouble With Component Skinning...
imported comboBox assets from haloTheme and edited the ComboThemeColor1 MC from the acid green to an orange to match my site. Then I checked the linkage and made sure it was set to Export in First Frame. But when i view my movie - its still acid green... any suggestions on what I'm overlooking? below is directions I was following. The only think different i did was bring in elements from HaloTheme instead of SampleTheme (I like the look of halo better).

# Select File > Import > Open External Library, and select the SampleTheme.fla file.

This file is located in the application-level configuration folder. For the exact location on your operating system, see About themes.
# In the theme's Library panel, select Flash UI Components 2/Themes/MMDefault and drag the Assets folder of any components in your document to the library for your document.

For example, drag the RadioButton Assets folder to the ThemeApply.fla library.
# If you dragged individual component Assets folders to the library, make sure the Assets symbol for each component is set to Export in First Frame.

For example, the Assets folder for the RadioButton component is called RadioButton Assets; it has a symbol called RadioButtonAssets, which contains all of the individual asset symbols. If you set Export in First Frame on the RadioButtonAssets symbol, all individual asset symbols will also export in the first frame.
# Double-click any skin symbol you want to modify to open it in symbol-editing mode.

For example, open the States/RadioFalseDisabled symbol.
# Modify the symbol or delete the graphics and create new graphics.

You may need to select View > Zoom In to increase the magnification. When you edit a skin, you must maintain the registration point in order for the skin to be displayed correctly. The upper-left corner of all edited symbols must be at (0,0).

For example, change the inner circle to a light gray.
# When you finish editing the skin symbol, click the Back button at the left side of the edit bar at the top of the Stage to return to document-editing mode.

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Skinning Button Component In L.I
Hi,

This topic is a little advanced. I been working for the last three days on trying to find a way to customize the skin of the Button component in the Learning Interactions (LI) that ships with flash. The procedures in flash documentation (customizing components) are helpful and helped me customize the RadioButton and checkBox components very fine, but when it came to the Button components things are a way more challenging.

You can find the LI in the common library of flash. The codes of placed within two movie clips, but most variables are scoped to _root. The codes are respectively within the "superClass" clip timeline (see "controls" folder in library), and for each Quizz template complementary codes is on the timeline of the mc embedded (ctrl+B, then double-click the instructions graphic ).

Something in the code overrides the normal Button Component Behavior and look in a way that i cannot skin it with normal procedures described in the documentation,nor even after following the very nice pieces of expert advices in this article (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/skinning_2004.html).

Well now i have tried guys, but i seem like not able to find a way around this.Maybe you guys won't beleive me, but i sleep in the night and i dream iam still working on this, maybe i even talk i dunno lol. If you can please have a look at and help me that would be very great. It is an important project for me, and iam blocked in a key step in a long pipeline. Lemme remind the question: How would you alter the graphic of this component Button and replace it by your own look?

Thank you

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Skinning Flash CS3 Component
I posted this in General but haven't gotten a reply, and now I'm beginning to wonder if this must be accomplised with ActionScript.

It's great that you can double click a component, open it up, and put your own artwork right in there and set the 9-slice scaling guides so it behaves properly. Lightyears better than trying to skin in any previous version of Flash.

But, the rendered SWF does not seem to respect my artwork dimensions. For instance, I have a Slider component for which the default track is about 3px tall. I have my own artwork which is about 6px tall. While I can put my artwork in the skin and it scales perfectly, it squashes it down to 3px tall when rendered. Likewise, my 9x12 thumb gets scaled when rendered to 13x13(which is the default skin's thumb size) when rendered. Although the graphics appear the right size in Flash authoring, it appears to get scaled at runtime.

How do I avoid this? How do I define the base dimensions for the skin graphics?

Thanks for any advice.

Post in General forum:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=1324684

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ahh, so i make this great Accordion Component for this site i'm working on. maybe i'm searching for wrong terms, but i can't find how to skin this thing?

i tryed a few properties like background color, etc. but it doesn't work.

do i have to make a style sheet or something?

please advise,
digit''al

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Datagrid Component Skinning
Hey guys,

I'm trying to skin the datagrid component using the Themes style of dragging and dropping in MX 2004, and that works fine except for the top bar / header field of the datagrid. Even though I change the assets in the Datagrid Assets folder, it won't update.

Is that part of the component's skin located in another folder? I tried using styles to change it but I couldn't find the right property. Help!!

--EP

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Skinning Mediaplayback Component
i have searched a ton for this before resorting to posting the question on here
what little things i have found did not help
are there any free flv components out there that are easily skinnable?
or is there a good tutorial on skinning the mediaplayback component?

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Skinning The TextArea Component
Hello all, can anyone give me any help on skinning the TextArea component on Flash MX 2004. Ideally I want a borderless scrolling text area...

I can upload my .fla if it's any help...

Cheers guys

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Can someone point me to a GOOD component skinning tutorial?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but it doesn't seem obvious to me...thx!

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Skinning A Combo Box Component
Hi,

I can't figure out how to skin the combo box in flash, I can skin the drop down button just fine, but the rest of it is driving me crazy.

Does anyone know how to skin the text and drop down box?

Thanks

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Hi,
Does anybody know how to go about skinning a list component? I want each element to have an animated graphic in its background but can't find the relavent graphic clips to replace...

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Hello,

Is it possible to skin the tree component so that each child node with no additional children displays as a radio button? Then to have each grouped by it's parent and grandparent?

If you can't do it by skinning, does anyone have any other suggestions?

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Skinning The List Component
Hi.

I'm trying to skin some components in my application, and I successfully skinned a ComboBox and a DataGrid. Unfortunately the same process doesn't work with the List component. Here is the code I'm using, defining global styles :

_global.styles.DataGrid = new mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration();
_global.styles.List = new mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration();
_global.styles.ComboBox = new mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration();

_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("color","0x002269");
_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("rollOverColor","0x87C2EF");
_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("alternatingRowColors",[0xBFDFF8, 0xFFFFFF]);
_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("selectionColor","0x0077DC");
_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("textRollOverColor","0x002269");
_global.styles.DataGrid.setStyle("textSelectedColor","0x002269");

_global.styles.List.setStyle("color","0x002269");
_global.styles.List.setStyle("rollOverColor","0xaabbcc");//87C2EF");
_global.styles.List.setStyle("selectionColor","0x0077DC");
_global.styles.List.setStyle("textRollOverColor","0x002269");
_global.styles.List.setStyle("textSelectedColor","0x002269");

_global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("color","0x002269");
_global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("rollOverColor","0x87C2EF");
_global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("selectionColor","0x0077DC");
_global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("textRollOverColor","0x002269");
_global.styles.ComboBox.setStyle("textSelectedColor","0x002269");

Anything wrong with my code ? I have just dragged the List component from the Components Panel, and figured that it should be styled with _global.styles.List as that works for the other components, but perhaps I have to use a different name, as List also is the superclass for the ListBox family ?

All help and sucess stories would be greatly appreciated : )

Best Regards
Eirik, Norway

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Hey,

I'm trying to skin the Flash CS4 UIScrollBar component. Pretty simple task - double click the thing, modify the movieclips, and whalla!.. there it is. The problem is the scale. The default ScrollArrowUp_upSkin, for example, is 15x14 pixels. The button I want to put in it's place is 21x40. How do I tell the scrollbar not to resize my element to 15x14 at runtime?

cheers

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I was directed to gotoandlearn.com for a tutorial on skinning flash components, but can't seem to find it. Could someone point me in the right direction?

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Hi every one

I was wondering how to skin the list component
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I watched the tutorial and tried to skin several components. When I tried to skin a List component, I was unable to find the assets folder. How do I go about skinning this one?

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I was wondering how difficult it would be (if at all possible) to skin the fullscreen video player for Flash9... just giving the user the basics... a progress bar, a play/pause button, volume control, etc...

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i know this for flash mx , but with flash mx 2004 i feel kinda stupid, the skinning system has changed a lot.

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Hello,
I want to create global component specific skinning. Heres my goal. I have an app with grids,lists and combos. I only want the grids to use the alternatingRowColors property.

I have tried
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and
_global.DataGrid.setStyle(alternatingRowColors ...)

none of them seem to affect anything

using
_global.style.setStyle(alternatingRowColors ...)

applies the given colors to all multiple row UI Comps.

hope this was somewhat clear.

...merci thank you gracias danke takk...

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I previously used Flash 7 Pro and was able to edit a component; I have applied themes and had some success in skinning.

To get around this I copied in an old component that I had previously skinned and that didn't work. The old component worked - kinda- but AS2 script I applied would not work. Any suggestions? Anyone?

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what i tried was
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myList2.setStyle("upSkin",myNewSkin2); //myNewSkin1 & myNewSkin2 are movieClips in my library that
//are exported for Action Script on the first frame.

but this dont work.

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Hello all - What would be the easiest way to create a video playback in Flash like the one in the attached image? All I want is the progress bar, and a play button with the video. Do I need to skin a certain component in flash? If so - how would I do this? Thanks!

Hello all -

What would be the easiest way to create a video playback in Flash like the one in the attached image? All I want is the progress bar, and a play button with the video. Do I need to skin a certain component in flash? If so - how would I do this?

Thanks!