Step 11. Creating a Custom UI for a Flash MX Component
So far, we saw how to create a custom Flash MX Component for an isosceles triangle.
In this tutorial, we expand on that discussion to show how to create a custom
user interface.
A custom user interface is special Flash movie that you would make to allow
those using your component to enter property values in a more convenient way
than the default component property panel, as illustrated below:
Jonathan Kaye, PhD, is the President and CTO of Amethyst Research LLC, an award-winning interactive design and engineering firm specializing in the creation of online device simulations. He and David Castillo are the authors of "Flash for Interactive Simulation: How to Construct and Use Device Simulations", to be published by Delmar Thomson Learning in November, 2002 (the accompanying web site will be www.FlashSim.com).