flash actionscript: I've been wading through all the information regarding component theme's,
styles, etc. I think I'm more confused about it than when I started

All I really need to do is kill the halo on some v2 components I'm using like
the scroll pane

While I continue to research is there anyone that would be willing to share a
quick and dirty way to kill the halo on a specific component

J

OK. I don't know what a "Halo" is but I do know how to manipulate the look of
components. That's what you're trying to do, right

So you've dragged the component out of the component library and onto the
stage in your flash file. Go to the library for that .fla. You should have a
folder called Flash UI Components. Open it. Then a folder called Component
Skins. Open that. Now there should be a folder called something like
FScrollpane skins. Open that

Now you'll see a bunch of movieclips. You can open up those and change the
look as you please. Maybe make the scrollTrack blue or something. I recommend
that if you want to not have a part of the component visible change the alpha
to 0 rather delete the part because you never know. You may want that part
later. Particularly if something is not working.

That help? Or am I way off

I suggest looking in the MX04 component styles documentation.

As you might have read in my first post, I have been looking through the MX04
component styles documentation and I still haven't come up with anything since
my first post

Has no one out there had a need to remove the halo on MX04 components

J

Reviving this again.

I agree, why would they pick such an ugly color for the highlight of
everything. I am having the same problem with the Media controller

Many appearance things can be set using actionscript
element.setStyle("property","value"). Look in the help under using components
and then under scroll pane and look through the entry called something like
"customizine the scroll pane component." If highlight color or some such isn't
a choice, then I don't think you are going to like the answer

The v2 components are kept in different places on a Mac or a PC. Basically you
need to find them, make a copy (just in case you totally mess it up), open it
as a FLA file, go in and change the colors, save it, (I would restart Flash,
just for good messure), go back to your file and replace the component

At least that is what I seem to remember. I haven't actually done this yet,
but need to give it a go. Or you go first and tell me. :