It is quite a bad idea to use a button component though, precisely
because it's nearly impossible to customize if you are new to flash.
Create a button yourself, Insert new symbol, select button in the new
symbol dialog window, and then draw and write whatever you want
according to how you want the button to look like, in the respective
frames of its timeline. These frames represent the different states of
your button (off, over, hit...) so that you can give oit different looks
for each state.
[quoted text, click to view] Petroch wrote:
> If you're using a button component, you'll want to make changes with the
> various UIObject classes and properties.
>
> for example, you might try "myButton.setSize(100, 100);" to alter the object's
> size.
>
> Similarly, there are a whole slew of various style properties for things like
> font and color, ex: myButton.setStyle("fontWeight", "bold");
Folks,
When I drop a button onto a form, It seems that I can only change its size and
co-ordinates.
For example - I can not change the font nor font size. Is this correct ?
Furhtermore, It appears that I can not grab the edge of the button to resize
it.
I am really hoping that I am doing something wrong.
Should there not be [somewhere] huge screen fulls of properties ?
Finally, how come everythin is blurred(ish) ?
Frank
da Codeur
If you're using a button component, you'll want to make changes with the
various UIObject classes and properties.
for example, you might try "myButton.setSize(100, 100);" to alter the object's
size.
Similarly, there are a whole slew of various style properties for things like
font and color, ex: myButton.setStyle("fontWeight", "bold");
Folks,
Thak you for your replies.
I am a long time database applications developer and I am toying with the idea
of using flash (with its MX2004 componets) as my client (UI interface). This
is appealing to me because it kills both birds (WinForms and WebForms) with the
same stone.
Now that I am looking at the Flash IDE, I can not believe that so much is
missing in terms of being able to layout a form in a "what you see is what you
get" fashiion - that is a given with tools such as Visual Studio, etc.
So, are you fine folks saying that indeed Flash IDE is terribly broken for
laying out components on a business applicaiton form and that the only
alternative is setting the various properties through ActionScript 2. ?
If so, then is anyone working ona a better Flash IDE - Macromedia or a third
party ?
Also, what is it wih all of the slightly blurred letters on all of the
components ?
Is there any way around this "vector blurr" ?
Thanks again.
Frank
da Codeur
