Advanced ActionScript Components

Mastering the Flash Component Architecture

By: Antonio De Donatis

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Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired. This can save you an enormous amount of time during application development and help you improve the quality of your code. What's more, the source code is included, so if you can't find the component you need within the component architecture, you can just modify existing components to create your own! Expert Flash developer and author Antonio De Donatis gives you everything you need to master Flash components. In the first part, he shows you how the architecture works, how to create effective component-based applications, and how to create your own custom components from whats already provided. The second part shows how XML can be used to effectively describe and dynamically create not only single component instances, but whole applications based on any number of components. The last part of the book is a comprehensive reference to using all of the components already available in the Macromedia Component Architecture. It includes a specific chapter dedicated to each of the user interface components like basic usage, component management, customization, and practical examples showing usage of each component.

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About the Author	p. xvii
About the Technical Reviewers	p. xviii
About the Cover Image Designer	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xx
Introduction	p. xxi
Introducing the Architecture	p. 1
OOP in Component Design	p. 3
A very short history of the architecture	p. 4
Creating Flash components	p. 4
An apparently useless component	p. 5
Inheritance	p. 14
Events	p. 20
Polymorphism	p. 26
Summary	p. 31
Core Classes and Component Design	p. 33
The legacy of the UIObject class	p. 36
Refining our sample components	p. 46
The component framework	p. 51
Summary	p. 57
Exploring the UI Components	p. 59
The Reusability Card	p. 60
Multitier applications	p. 64
UI components provided with Flash	p. 65
Using the UI components	p. 82
Typical structure of a component	p. 85
Summary	p. 88
Building Component-based Applications	p. 91
Screens	p. 92
Creating a slide presentation dynamically	p. 102
Manager classes	p. 114
Summary	p. 128
Exploiting the Architecture	p. 129
Architecture-based Development	p. 131
Exploiting the architecture	p. 132
Raising the bar	p. 134
What is an XML layout engine?	p. 138
XLEFF	p. 140
Summary	p. 146
XML for Defining User Interfaces	p. 149
Basics of the XML data structure	p. 150
XLEFF sampler	p. 158
Summary	p. 169
Extending the Application Framework	p. 171
Defining an FLA template	p. 172
Defining a folder structure	p. 183
Facilitating event-driven programming	p. 186
Managing content	p. 194
Summary	p. 198
Making Your XML Life Easier	p. 201
Parsing XML in ActionScript	p. 202
Simplifying the parsing process	p. 209
A few notes on the use of XModel	p. 217
Summary	p. 217
The Customization Process	p. 219
Working with styles	p. 220
Analyzing skins	p. 228
Working with themes	p. 236
Summary	p. 249
Customizing the Components	p. 251
The Accordion Component	p. 253
A minimal example	p. 254
The component structure	p. 257
A richer example	p. 259
Supported styles	p. 262
Skinnability	p. 265
Solved mysteries	p. 268
Reasons for subclassing	p. 273
The Button Component	p. 275
Minimal example of the Button component	p. 276
Supported styles	p. 279
Skinnability	p. 284
Solved mysteries	p. 290
Reasons for subclassing a Button component	p. 293
The CheckBox and RadioButton Components	p. 295
Minimal example of the CheckBox and the RadioButton components	p. 296
Supported styles	p. 298
Skinnability	p. 302
Solved mysteries	p. 305
Reasons for subclassing the CheckBox and the RadioButton components	p. 307
The List, ComboBox, and DataGrid Components	p. 309
Minimal example including the List, ComboBox, and DataGrid components	p. 310
Richer examples	p. 314
Supported styles	p. 333
Skinnability	p. 338
Solved mysteries	p. 339
Reasons for subclassing the List, ComboBox, and DataGrid components	p. 347
The DateChooser and DateField Components	p. 349
Minimal example of the DataChooser and DataField components	p. 350
A richer example	p. 351
Supported styles	p. 360
Skinnability	p. 363
Solved mysteries	p. 366
Reasons for subclassing the DataChooser and DataField components	p. 369
The Loader, ScrollPane, and ProgressBar Components	p. 371
Minimal examples	p. 372
Combined examples	p. 381
Supported styles	p. 387
Skinnability	p. 389
Solved mysteries	p. 392
Reasons for subclassing	p. 393
The Menu and MenuBar Components	p. 395
Minimal examples	p. 396
Richer examples	p. 399
Supported styles	p. 409
Skinnability	p. 414
Solved mysteries	p. 417
Reasons for subclassing the Menu and the MenuBar components	p. 424
The NumericStepper Component	p. 427
Minimal example of the NumericStepper component	p. 428
Styles supported by the NumericStepper component	p. 431
Skinning the NumericStepper component	p. 433
Solved mysteries	p. 435
Reasons for subclassing the NumericStepper component	p. 437
The TextArea, TextInput, and Label Components	p. 439
Minimal example	p. 440
Richer example of the TextInput and TextArea components	p. 446
Supported styles	p. 448
Solved mysteries	p. 450
Reasons for subclassing the Label, TextInput, and TextArea components	p. 456
The Tree Component	p. 459
Minimal example of the Tree component	p. 460
Supported styles	p. 465
Solved mysteries	p. 470
Reasons for subclassing the Tree component	p. 480
The Window and Alert Components	p. 483
Minimal example of the Window and Alert components	p. 484
Managing the content of a Window instance	p. 490
Supported styles	p. 495
Skinning the Window and Alert components	p. 499
Reasons for subclassing the Window and Alert components	p. 505
Handling the Scrollbars	p. 507
Minimal example of the UIScrollBar component	p. 508
Customizing the scrollbars inside a component	p. 510
Conclusion	p. 519
Appendixes	p. 521
Locating the Source Code of the Component Architecture	p. 523
If you are a Windows user	p. 524
If you are a Mac user	p. 525
FLA source files	p. 525
Link them	p. 526
Transitions and Easing Classes	p. 529
Parameters common to all of the transition types	p. 530
Transition-specific parameters	p. 532
Example of a transition parameters object	p. 533
Index	p. 535
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