Randy Troppmann

Glenn Ruehle and Ted Patrick from Adobe demo an upcoming feature of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 in this video. Glen shows the results of building layout containers in Flash and bringing them into Flex where they exist as “first class citizens”. This is a killer feature and I need it for a current project. I have found no other news on this.

I have been playing with the Component Kit. It is less onerous than Grant Skinner’s DisplayObjectWrapper.

UPDATE: In this video Glen talks about the Componet Kit and the upcoming “Make Flex Container”. At this path in Flex 3 is a newer FlexComponentKit.mxp which adds a “Make Flex Container” command:

… Adober Flex Builder 3/sdks/moxie/frameworks/projects/flash_integration/

Further instructions can be found here. There is a reported bug which I encountered. The swc still gets compiled and I have had some success getting it to work. This test example shows the green border that is Flash made with a mask for the inside. The green border contains an HBox and an accordian. You can see that the fonts are missing (probably related to system fonts with a mask) and the content inside is not scaling properly. The green border is scaling according to its Sclae9 grid set in Flash.