Comments on: mx.* dependency breaks UIMovieClip http://joshua.almirun.com/tech/ria/flash/mx-dependency-breaks-uimovieclip technology, politics, armchair philosophy Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:57:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Beau Brewer http://joshua.almirun.com/tech/ria/flash/mx-dependency-breaks-uimovieclip/comment-page-1#comment-2659 Beau Brewer Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:09:36 +0000 http://joshua.almirun.com/?p=179#comment-2659 Joshua, According to Joeflash, you create another class that extends your CustomClass (which extends UIMovieClip) in Flex. At that point, you can add any other properties or variables you need in that class, such as the ArrayCollection. The only downside is you would still need to map between them from an ArrayCollection to classes that are available in your CustomClass.as. Joshua,

According to Joeflash, you create another class that extends your CustomClass (which extends UIMovieClip) in Flex. At that point, you can add any other properties or variables you need in that class, such as the ArrayCollection. The only downside is you would still need to map between them from an ArrayCollection to classes that are available in your CustomClass.as.

]]> By: Joshua Mostafa http://joshua.almirun.com/tech/ria/flash/mx-dependency-breaks-uimovieclip/comment-page-1#comment-1375 Joshua Mostafa Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:13:30 +0000 http://joshua.almirun.com/?p=179#comment-1375 That sounds good - but how do I make my Flash-authored component act as a FlexCustomClass instance? That sounds good – but how do I make my Flash-authored component act as a FlexCustomClass instance?

]]> By: Joeflash http://joshua.almirun.com/tech/ria/flash/mx-dependency-breaks-uimovieclip/comment-page-1#comment-1357 Joeflash Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:42:23 +0000 http://joshua.almirun.com/?p=179#comment-1357 The reason for this is that the Flex Component Kit only contains the mx.flash.* package, which contain no direct dependencies to the Flex framework beyond a few interfaces in this package. So ArrayCollections don't work. And databinding metadata is from the Flex compiler. So as a rule, don't use anything in 'CustomClass extends UIMovieClip' that is not in mx.flash.* or the AS3/Flash API. The solution is easy enough. If you have a CustomClass asset in the FLA library which extends UIMovieClip in CustomClass.as, make sure it does not contain any flex-specific behaviour. In Flex, create a subclass of CustomClass as your final component, such as 'FlexCustomClass extends CustomClass', and add your Flex-specific behaviour in that class. FlexCustomClass will be compiled by the Flex compiler and thus have access to the Flex SDK. The reason for this is that the Flex Component Kit only contains the mx.flash.* package, which contain no direct dependencies to the Flex framework beyond a few interfaces in this package. So ArrayCollections don’t work. And databinding metadata is from the Flex compiler. So as a rule, don’t use anything in ‘CustomClass extends UIMovieClip’ that is not in mx.flash.* or the AS3/Flash API.

The solution is easy enough.

If you have a CustomClass asset in the FLA library which extends UIMovieClip in CustomClass.as, make sure it does not contain any flex-specific behaviour. In Flex, create a subclass of CustomClass as your final component, such as ‘FlexCustomClass extends CustomClass’, and add your Flex-specific behaviour in that class. FlexCustomClass will be compiled by the Flex compiler and thus have access to the Flex SDK.

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