Hi,
I am trying to develop a set of classes and custom components which will make it easy to create user interfaces without much knowledge of AS. These user interfaces talk to external IP based devices.
I have completed on such interface using AS2 but used a active x VB container to do all the communications. I am now trying to recreate in AS3 but the learning curve is steep and I have been splitting my head open trying to get my head around which is the best way of attacking it.
So far I have created a class that connects to the control system using an XMLSocket and serializes the communication between the Flash and the Control system. I have also created a custom Event class to fire of messages to the component on the stage that may have to react to the incoming information. That is if a “channel 1 on” message comes in and there is a movie that has a 1 in its channel attribute is should animate to the on position.
I have trying to create a custom component that would have all the attributes that may need to be changed at design stage as Inspectable. I have done this but have run into a few snags (problems).
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Custom components don’t seem to lend them selves to multi state buttons (movies). From what I can figure the assets are locked in a single frame (2). I am not sure how this leaves me with being able to let a non programming arty type person giving it a nice pretty animated button gesture. I was thinking of trying to just make the simple animated movie with no AS and the adding it to the component at design time giving it a standard alias as a reference.
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If I try and add more than one of my custom components to stage is gives me an error. (already have an instance on the stage bla bla). How can I fix this ?
I have read many blogs on creating custom components and the offical Adobe one which is pretty full on. I was hoping to get some input back that would save me trawling through more blogs at least for a day or two.
Cheers
Matt
