Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source

Chapter 10. Creating Custom Components with ActionScript 3.0

<feature><title>What You Will Learn</title>

In this lesson, you will:

• Create a class for your component

• Embed images in ActionScript

• Instantiate Flex components in ActionScript

• Programmatically add components to a Container

• Override the createChildren() and updateDisplayList() methods

• Understand the rawChildrenList property of Containers

</feature><feature><title>Approximate Time</title>

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.

</feature><feature><title>Lesson Files</title>

Media Files:

• None

Starting Files:

• Lesson10/start/Dashboard.mxml

• Lesson10/start/views/dashboard/ChartPod.mxml

Completed Files:

• Lesson10/complete/Dashboard.mxml

• Lesson10/complete/views/Dashboard/ChartPod.mxml ...