Comments on: My daily use of Assets in FDT

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:05:51 +0000

You mention embedding video, but the only way I can see to embed video is to include it in a MovieClip. Is there a way I can embed just an FLV file and load it into a video player later?

By: Panel

Panel — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:01:17 +0000

SWC as assets container is great idea THX ;)

By: Pavel fljot

Pavel fljot — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:09:27 +0000

The thing is that u can do all stuff in FDT(any other IDE, talk about mxmlc actually). You can set up a fake BaseClass, empty one (simply ClassName extends Sprite/MovieClip, no other code). So this is what “usually” for me. You compile swc once, then do everything in FDT, but at compile time it will kinda inject actual code for base classes instead of empty ones. Got it?

By: Marvin Blase

Marvin Blase — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:32:49 +0000

Ah, I see what you mean. Yea, true – when having a class you can extend it from it works – but usually you set up a BaseClass while exporting which exactly does so. I talked about extending this exported Asset then so you can setup the whole coding stuff in FDT.

By: Pavel fljot

Pavel fljot — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:48:34 +0000

Eemm.. I thought we’re talking about assets(graphic objects in fla-swc library) extending as-classes, so instatnces u’re working with are instances of dynamic classes.

By: Marvin Blase

Marvin Blase — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:43:22 +0000

This ain’t essentially necessary:
public class Tooltip extends TooltipAsset {

works fine as well :) But yea, asset-classes are exported as dynamic.

Btw. are we doing it reversed in name’s convention?

By: Pavel fljot

Pavel fljot — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:41:50 +0000

Only thing I noticed is that asset class is dynamic (at least FDT shows this from swc). So you deal with bunch of dynamic classes actuallym, event if u define them as base class.

Example:

dynamic public class ButtonAsset extends Button

—–

var button:Button = new ButtonAsset();

By: Marvin Blase

Marvin Blase — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:53:45 +0000

Hey Pavel,
I agree. :) No cons in mind yet.

By: Pavel fljot

Pavel fljot — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:31:09 +0000

I prefer asset to extend class with some functionality.
pros:
1. You/designer can prepare group of nested graphical objects with functionality.
2. You can have several different objects (ie manually drawn) with same functionality (ie menu custom buttons)

any cons?

By: jkaris

jkaris — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:19:45 +0000

nice work – is exactly how i do it also. good to see someone else does it the same.

By: pechkinator

pechkinator — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:33:41 +0000

it was very interesting to read.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:48:53 +0000

this is a great sum-up! thank you very much for it, i didn’t find anything like that yet and am happy now i finally understood this workflow!

By: Jim B.

Jim B. — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:29:53 +0000

thumbs up. i love it when there are pictures and a well formatted code. this makes learning much easier!

By: Marvin Blase

Marvin Blase — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:54:15 +0000

Hey,
yea – but you’re simply doing this in FDT then. Just instantiate both clips and then you can let them communicate. Usually you don’t do so in the Assets itself.

By: riWind

riWind — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:15:00 +0000

hi marvin,
thanks for your effort, but i still have got one question: can you tell if it is possible to let the exported clips communicate with each other? i mean that the one exported clip is telling the other one to do something now…

thanks in advance!!

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