Build my own ComboBox!?

[focolo]

Does anyone have any experience of building a ComboBox? I feel that the component ComboBox included in Flash MX 2004 doesn't fit into my site, and its size is too big - 56 kB.

Thanks
Mikael

[egoldy]

I have the same question...

[jsebrech]

A combobox is like any other custom component. Google for tutorials on how to build custom components, and check out UIObject.as and UIComponent.as in your flash mx 2004 folder. Especially UIObject, since that demonstrates how you turn a movieclip into a component.

If it's just a one-timer, it might be easier to just make it a normal symbol and not a component. But if you do make a component, and size is an issue, you'll have to inherit from movieclip, which means you'll have to write quite a bit of code to intelligently deal with user events, scaling, sizing, and so on.

[focolo]

Yeah, basically my whole site is built with one AS 2.0 class, so why not continue... I will just use the ComboBox once, so there is almost no idea to make it a component, so i guess i have to deal with some "intelligent" coding - or rather - at least give it a try. I was just curious if there was someone out there that had came up with the same stupid idea and then solved it...