Comments on: Adobe Flex 2 Example: Skinning Framework support for 9-slice MovieClips from Adobe Flash Professional 8 http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/ Sales Engineer from Adobe Benelux on Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0 and Adobe Flex in the Benelux. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:21:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 By: Waldo Smeets http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Waldo Smeets Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:02:45 +0000 #comment-410 Didn't know that Roger, sounds awesome! Regarding the naming.. I get confused all the time ;-) Didn’t know that Roger, sounds awesome! Regarding the naming.. I get confused all the time ;-)

]]> By: Roger Gonzalez http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Roger Gonzalez Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:53:22 +0000 #comment-392 Hey Waldo, did you know you can do 9-Slice (we usually call it Scale-9, which is more accurate) from within Flex 2? There are extra parameters you can add to "Embed" to set up the grid. The cool thing is that I also added support to Scale-9 bitmaps (the scaling only takes effect at control points, and bitmaps only have 4 - in the unscaled corners! So I did all sorts of hairy stuff to make 9 shapes with bitmap fills that line up seamlessly and scale correctly. Have fun! Hey Waldo, did you know you can do 9-Slice (we usually call it Scale-9, which is more accurate) from within Flex 2?

There are extra parameters you can add to “Embed” to set up the grid.

The cool thing is that I also added support to Scale-9 bitmaps (the scaling only takes effect at control points, and bitmaps only have 4 - in the unscaled corners! So I did all sorts of hairy stuff to make 9 shapes with bitmap fills that line up seamlessly and scale correctly.

Have fun!

]]> By: Carlos Rovira http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Carlos Rovira Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:23:23 +0000 #comment-409 I test it and it looks the best way. Until now I was always creating my skins programaticaly and This is more easy than before. Hope FlexBuilder 2 supports this kind of issue because this would be a real time saver and now Flash 8 could be a valuable tool again. I test it and it looks the best way. Until now I was always creating my skins programaticaly and This is more easy than before.

Hope FlexBuilder 2 supports this kind of issue because this would be a real time saver and now Flash 8 could be a valuable tool again.

]]> By: Waldo Smeets http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Waldo Smeets Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:49:32 +0000 #comment-393 Hi Kevin. I'm still looking for some time to resurrect the entire application ;-) Especially this 'expressive' application is a good test to find out how far you can stretch the framework, and the story makes a nice demo as well. I was halve way with Flex 1.5 but I think I'll start all over again for 2 with more best practices, FES integration and leveraging the better component, styling and skinning frameworks. Nice article btw! Hi Kevin. I’m still looking for some time to resurrect the entire application ;-) Especially this ‘expressive’ application is a good test to find out how far you can stretch the framework, and the story makes a nice demo as well. I was halve way with Flex 1.5 but I think I’ll start all over again for 2 with more best practices, FES integration and leveraging the better component, styling and skinning frameworks.

Nice article btw!

]]> By: Kevin Hoyt http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Kevin Hoyt Sat, 04 Feb 2006 05:39:52 +0000 #comment-390 Hey Waldo, How funny to revisit the old technology demonstrations! Inspired by your post, I put up a blog entry on the programmatic approach to the same content. Go Flex 2! http://weblogs.macromedia.com/khoyt/archives/2006/02/programmatic_sk.cfm Hey Waldo,

How funny to revisit the old technology demonstrations! Inspired by your post, I put up a blog entry on the programmatic approach to the same content. Go Flex 2!

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/khoyt/archives/2006/02/programmatic_sk.cfm

]]> By: Waldo Smeets http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Waldo Smeets Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:01:55 +0000 #comment-389 Yes, please check that you are using the most recent public version of the player. Let me know if you experience some more problems. Regards, Waldo Yes, please check that you are using the most recent public version of the player. Let me know if you experience some more problems.

Regards,
Waldo

]]> By: Michael http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Michael Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:44:11 +0000 #comment-388 Make sure you have the Flash 8.5 Alpha 3 player, from the Flex beta and not from the flex alpha, installed! That should do the trick Make sure you have the Flash 8.5 Alpha 3 player, from the Flex beta and not from the flex alpha, installed!
That should do the trick

]]> By: Greg Fuller http://www.waldosmeets.com/2006/02/03/604/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Greg Fuller Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:23:36 +0000 #comment-387 Thanks for the post. Very useful information. I get a series of AS errors when I click on "demo" above, starting with "VerifyError: Error #1042: Not an ABC file. major_version=46 minor_version=16". I'm using flashplayer 8.5. Thanks for the post. Very useful information.

I get a series of AS errors when I click on “demo” above, starting with “VerifyError: Error #1042: Not an ABC file. major_version=46 minor_version=16″.

I’m using flashplayer 8.5.

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