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Custom component for distribution – live preview detection

Posted on January 19, 2013 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

It’s been a while since I worked on a custom component for distribution, to auto-install in the Adobe Extension Manager. Many online tuts and official documentation assume that you want to extend the standard Flash UI Component framework. Building components…

Embedded fonts disappearing when loaded into another SWF

Posted on June 29, 2009 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

I once found that when an AS3 flash movie(let’s call it parent) that contained a UIComponent, loaded another AS3 flash movie(let’s call it child) that contained a UIComponent with embedded fonts, the component within the child lost its embedded fonts.…

Frustrating Flex problems solved #2 – addChild

Posted on November 6, 2007 by craiggrummitt — 3 Comments

this.addChild(new Sprite()) looks simple enough doesn’t it? especially if you’ve been working solely in Flash AS3. But if you try this line within a Flex component, you’ll receive the error: ‘Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::Sprite@86cc0e1 to mx.core.IUIComponent.’ This is…