Changing skins

[Dufuscolson]

Hello all,

I finally got my scroller working and now the next question. How can I change the components in within the skin. ( IE change the look of the "button" for the slider on my scroll bar.
I know where to go to see the different sections of the button
(top/middle/bottom) but I can not see them all at the same time so I can swap them with the MC that I have created to replace them.

Is there an easier way?

this humble newbie thanks you,

D @ GO

[fgf]

The easier way is (and i'm really serious here) not to have used a component in the first place.

If you want a simple component style object (scroller, radio) and you want it to do something a bit differently from the component its generally easier to code it yourself. You'll get a smaller and more efficient swf too.

My tip for a scroller is

onpress create an enterframe action that scrolls each frame

onrelease, on releaseOutside delete the enterframe action.

I've tried to edit components before but its never been worth the time to find out how to make the edits. Its not really in the spirit of components to hack them into pieces. Your supposed to except their limitations (and just use what config options are designed in them) in favour of speed of authoring or not bother with them.

I generally favour not using them (with the exception of the scroll bar which i actually like)

*rant over*

To answer your question the single frames you can see are what you get to edit, turn your custom movie into the approriate number of still,single frames and swap them with the old ones

fgf