Somewhere I had a link to an excellent article on the Flex component lifecycle - but I can't find it here at home. I'll try and dig it out tomorrow - sorry, I know that's useless of me!
In the meantime, a quick hunt around the 'net came up with this, which is a pretty decent overview: http://flexcomps.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/flex-component-life-cycle/ HTH, Ian On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Merrill, Jason <jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > I posted this on Flexcoders earlier today without any responses. But then, > Yahoo's servers have also been timing out - maybe the forum is not working > well. I figure someone else might be able to point me to some information. > > Can someone send me some links to information on all the ins and outs > of creating visual custom Flex UIComponents with AS3 3 - NOT > MXML (i.e. a class that extends UIComponent) ? > > I've actually done it before, but had some bugs and headaches because I > didn't fully understand all the intricacies of method overriding you > have to/should do - things like measure(), clone(), updateDisplayList > (), etc. - so that it looks/works right and the UIComponent stays > within its container (for example, you create a UIComponent that draws > a large circle, but you want the circle to remain within the bounds of > a scrollpane component it is a child of). > > I've googled all over the place, including adobe devnet and the > Flexcoders archives and have come up short. Seems to be bits and > pieces - I'm looking for some kind of explanation or simple example of > writing a visual component > > I understand the AS3 drawing API and databinding, I just want info on > the rest of best practices for extending UIComponent. Seems like I had > seen a tutorial on this before on devnet, but I can't locate it now > (the search on that thing is terrible!) - also others have made some > good posts on that here as well, but can't find those either. > > Thanks! > > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media ยท Learning > Performance Solutions L&LD > > Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash > Platform Community > Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative > Learning Blog and subscribe. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
