For God sake, MAX it’s a Developer conference and session was marked as an ADVANCED, is not it?

Somebody has to teach us better how to deal with all this Flash - Flex 1.5 integration stuff

And luckily it was you! I undoubtedly learned something new today on this particular issue.

Thank you for a having a LONGER session too

And please… share your FLA file for the custom skin for the Flex Accordion.
Just for the learning purpose!

One more thing the presentation probably had missed - a definition of what is Flash component (SWC file). You had started immediately with a code.
That’s fine with me, but some in the audience may be had lost a track at this point…

For God sake, MAX it’s a Developer conference and session was marked as an ADVANCED, is not it?

Somebody has to teach us better how to deal with all this Flash - Flex 1.5 integration stuff

And luckily it was you! I undoubtedly learned something new today on this particular issue.

Thank you for a having a LONGER session too

And please… share your FLA file for the custom skin for the Flex Accordion.
Just for the learning purpose!

One more thing the presentation probably had missed - a definition of what is Flash component (SWC file). You had started immediately with a code.
That’s fine with me, but some in the audience may be had lost a track at this point…

Thanks

Looks like you talked about Flex as its available right now, not the Zorn alpha — was just about to post to ask if you prefer SWC skinning over CSS. What I particularly like is that you can now apparently use Flex Builder 2 for compiling AS only projects so you don’t have the overhead of the Flex framework if you don’t need it and can still stay in the Eclipse framework without relying on open source alternatives.

- What I discussed is a real problem with customers NOW, so I need to provide them with a solution that works now.
- The preso containeds two parts; overview of possibilities and technical implementation. In general this concept is expected to stay the same.

One last reason not to go too deep into Flash IDE + Zorn integration is the fact that the Flash IDE can not compile for AS3 yet, which makes the process more complicated untill that’s fixed.

Correct that Zorn supports AS only compilation, but that’s not going to help out with creating visual SWFs.

SWC vs CSS: if you don’t want to change shapes, only colors, CSS might be the easiest solution. However, with SWC/programmatic skinning you can go beyond that.

Mike did post an example on Flashcoders a while back that shows not only changing colors but actual skins through the CSS (though that’s Flex 2.0 specific, so not applicable to your session ;)).

.windows
{
upSkin: Embed(source=”button_up.png”);
overSkin: Embed(source=”button_over.png”);
downSkin: Embed(source=”button_down.png”);
}

Really exciting feature for quick and easy skinning.

If speaking in a language of Macromedia codenames:

Zorn = Flex builder 2
Mistral = Flex enterprice services 2
Zaphod = ???

If speaking in a language of Macromedia codenames:

Zorn = Flex builder 2
Mistral = Flex enterprice services 2
Zaphod = ???

.windows {
upSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#UpSkin”);
overSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#OverSkin”);
downSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#DownSkin”);
}

where UpSkin, OverSkin, DownSkin are movieclips in the library (linkage ID’s).
Doesn’t get any easier than that

I entered http://www.pharosreizen.nl/ web-site, but it seems to be all ASP + HTML based….

Here’s a section from Mike Chambers devnet article that mentions what i’m trying to do:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/flex2_flash.html

For example, let’s say you are working on a game that would benefit from the performance increases and productivity improvements of ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 8.5.

You could create all of the assets for the game in Flash 8 Professional. This would include graphics, videos, animations, etc. You could then do all of your programming in ActionScript and Flex Builder 2, and include the Flash assets in the SWF at compile time (ActionScript 3.0 has support for embedding assets and associating them with an ActionScript class).

The end result is a SWF file that contains all of the code and assets for your game, but which takes advantage of ActionScript 3.0 as well as the new Player APIs and virtual machine.

SecurityError: Error #2047: Security sandbox violation: ‘content’: ‘file:///C:/Flex/WaldoSWF/bin/swf_animation.swf’ may not access ‘file:///C:/Flex/WaldoSWF/bin/drop_shadow_monkey.swf’.

I presume this is an obvious configuration issue - I am just not sure what it is. Any suggestions?