A new component master...

[annexion]

Okay, I am lying. But, over the last three days, I have componentized all of the various effects and such that I use on a consistent basis. It's pretty fun and I am bursting at the seams trying to express to people I know how great this is for me... Yeah, not working. Perhaps someone here can e-mail me a surprise party or something.

[Timmee_3Styler]

thats cool, I think I shoudl learn components, cause I read a few intern job descriptions before that needed components experience

btw with the components...is the file size of your effects greater?

[Colin Campbell]

what exactly are components? Are they like effects?

[Timmee_3Styler]

their smartclips I think that you could drag into your Movie, change a few parameters and your done:

press F11 when your in flash.... scrollbars..scrollpanes...

[Colin Campbell]

oh! those... I thought it was something different. Hmmm, maybe I shoud learn how to work with those, I haven't tried. Well, once, the first time I opened Flash... and then I couldn't figure out what to do with them... :p

[webguy]

geez... I just dropped the pushbutton into an empty movie and then published it to see the effect. Pretty simple. Something I could probably do with a couple lines of code. Then I went to edit it and found 316 lines of code on the actions keyframe? What can this pushbutton do exactly?

[Jesse]

The Flash UI components are all really long for what they do, but it's because they've been made to be extensible. In real terms the code in them is very well done. The PushButton only acts as a button but it has all sorts of methods to allow dynamic resizing, disabling, and changing of all sorts of attributes.