mCom components are an attractive alternative: http://www.metaliq.com/mCOM/
These were formerly known as 'glic'. Supposedly they are easier to skin, too. Mike On 2/1/06, Meinte van't Kruis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'something that can "play nicely" with stuff that other people are likely to > use' > > well, that's a good point, but it's hard to tell which stuff people are > likely to use, allthough macromedia's frameworks seems a good bet. > > but perhaps take a look at some opensource projects, i think that's a > definitely a nice way to play. I haven't looked much into it, but aswing ( > http://www.osflash.org/aswing) seems to be promising. > > But perhaps (v2) components aren't that evil though, I should get more into > it someday :). > > -Meinte > > On 1/31/06, Jason Rayles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Meinte, > > > > Thanks for the tip. I don't intend to use v2 components myself. I am > > trying to make a component for distribution, and I would like to make > > something that can "play nicely" with stuff that other people are > > likely to use. > > > > Jason > > > > On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > From: Meinte van't Kruis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] v2 components - are you kidding me? > > > To: Flashcoders mailing list <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> > > > Message-ID: > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > > > then maybe your question should be: > > > > > > Why do I use V2 components? > > > > > > -Meinte > > > > > > (the first time I even tried using components was when I discovered the > > > things it put on the highest level(of _root in that case), plus i saw > > > my > > > flash movie go from 5 to 60kb, I never looked at components again after > > > that.) > > > > > > On 1/31/06, Jason Rayles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> My main question is: why does opening a v2 combobox subsequently cause > > >> an onRollOut event to fire every time I click a button or movieclip, > > >> and is there any way to prevent that? > > >> > > >> Some other questions I have are: > > >> Is there anything that the combobox does right? > > >> > > >> Why can I not use getNextHighestDepth anymore when I put a component > > >> on > > >> the stage? > > >> > > >> Why does DepthManager.kCursor exist when I can still attach all kinds > > >> of objects above that depth? > > >> > > >> Why can I attach movie clips at depths that are outside the valid > > >> range? > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- Mike ---------- http://www.mikebritton.com http://www.mikenkim.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders