Customizing Combobox Component

programming flash
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Hi,

I was messing around with the Combobox component last night. Pretty sweet component. I was trying to make it a specific size. It seemed to work, however, when I published it the combobox size would change. Is there a way to keep it from changing size?

Also does anybody know of a good thread or tute on how to skin the component through actionscript?

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Did you check the tutes here? :trout:

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Did you search the forums, i posted a while ago a website that let you skin your component, and also an actionscript oriented code to skin your components.

I’ll see if i can get the links of the topics for you.

PS. You can search the forums by pressing on the grey button labeled ‘Search’ below the blue header.

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Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies. I did check the tutes and did a thread search on combobox. Both of you had some great posts, but I didn’t see the answer to my question.

I think I just found it though. See Below. Looks like you can size the width, but cannot control the height, which is what I was having trouble with.

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FComboBox.setSize

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

myComboBox.setSize(width)

Parameters

width An integer specifying the width of the combo box, in pixels.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; resizes the combo box to the specified width. <b>(You cannot set the height of a combo box component.)</b> Use this method to programmatically resize the combo box and update it at runtime.

Example

The following code sets or resizes the width of menuMain to 100 pixels.

menuMain.setSize(100);