Category Archives: Components

Creating Custom Components: Part Deux

Great v2 component resources keep coming to my attention following my initial Creating Custom Components blog entry of two weeks ago. Greg Hammer, Manager of the Las Vegas Macromedia Users Group, turned me on to an excellent tutorial on creating custom v2 architecture components which is made available courtesy of laflash.org (User Groups Rock!!). [...]

Creating Custom Components

There’s been a bit of traffic on the flashcoders mailing list today about how to create custom components extending the UIComponent class. Jesse Warden droppped a link to some really excellent step-by-step tutorials (click here for tutorials, click here for source files) which walk you through the entire process from start to finish. Not only [...]

ComboBox Item Specific Icons

A friend of mine, and fellow flasher, from the Pacific Northwest IM’d me yesterday about creating a custom cell renderer for a ComboBox. What he wanted to do was deliver a custom icon for each item based on the SCORM objective results returned from the LMS. After thinking about his need for a couple of [...]