Component Development Presentation Files – FITC 2004

Posting my material for my session at FlashintheCan, Flash MX 2004 Component Development Using the Version 2 Architecture. The session went really well, thanks to everyone who attended. From the feedback I received after the presentation, everyone seemed to have found it informative.

The presentation material includes the PowerPoint presentation file, and the simple sample component (StatusIcon) built during the session.

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12 thoughts on “Component Development Presentation Files – FITC 2004”

It was shweeet Good stuff. U missed out lastnight dude

Hi,

One thing that I cant seem to find a tutorial for:

How do i program my component so after its ready when i drag it and drop it on any mc in the stage it will automatically set its parameter ‘Target’ to the instance name of the mc under it.

Karl: You would be interested in looking to implement the _targetInstanceName property. There isn’t much documentation on the subject, a quick google search turned up http://www.flashcomponents.net/tutorials/triangle/triangle.html

It’s also probably good to note that although this property is supported by Flash, it seems to not work with SWCs. If you are building a component that you want to distribute as a SWC this will not be an option.

Here you can find a discussion on the use of _targetInstanceName with the v2 component architecture:

http://www.martijndevisser.com/archives/000010.php

Thx alot, i’ve figured out the solution:

[Inspectable]
public function set _targetInstanceName(t:String):Void{
__target=eval(t); //__target is private member of Object type
}
public function get _targetInstanceName():Object{
return __target;
}