This might help:
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html
Can I ask why you're building your game in Flex though? Doesn't seem
like it would provide (m)any advantages over straight up Flash.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "pinkmongrel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been trying to find an elegant way to display MovieClip symbols
> from a Flash 9 swf in a Flex app. I am rewriting my old game
> ChipWits (google it) and have a bunch of graphics which I need to
> repeat for walls, floors... All the graphics are in Symbols with
> auto-generated classes (coffee class for the coffee symbol).
>
> I have it working in a very inelegant manner by putting named
> instances of each of the Symbols on the stage. In Flex I call a
> function in the swf's Document class that moves the symbol to 0,0
> and makes it visible in the swf:
>
> private var mc_Item:MovieClip = null;
>
> public function showInstanceInSWF(itemName:String):void {
> // If it has the property draw it
> if( this.hasOwnProperty(itemName) ) {
> // Get rid of any old instance in the SWF
> if(this.mc_Item != null) {
> this.mc_Item.visible = false;
> this.mc_Item = null;
> }
> // Point mc_Item to the MovieClip on stage named itemName
> this.mc_Item = this[itemName];
> if(this.mc_Item != null) {
> this.mc_Item.x = 0;
> this.mc_Item.y = 0;
> this.mc_Item.alpha = 100; // They are alpha=0 in Flash
> this.mc_Item.visible = true;
> }
> }
> }
>
> This means that for every piece of floor, wall, etc. onstage I need
> to load another SWF.
>
> What I'd like to do is something like:
>
> public function returnSymbolFromClass( className:String ):MovieClip {
> var mc:Object = null;
> try {
> var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName(className) as Class;
> mc = new ClassReference();
> }
> catch(e:ReferenceError) {
> trace(e);
> }
> return MovieClip(mc);
> }
>
> and then to take the MovieClip and addChild it in my app outside the
> loaded SWF.
>
> This has me pulling my hair out. I am breaking my swf's up so there
> is one symbol in each, but again this is very kludgy.
>
> Any help will be grovellingly appreciated.
>
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