From Adobe Labs Table of contents [showhide] 1 What is the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 2 What Do I Need to Use It? 3 Download and Installation 4 How Do I Use the Flex Component Kit 4.1 Flash content requirements 4.2 Preparing Flash content for use in Flex 4.3 Bringing the Flash content into Flex 5 What Are the Limitations? 6 How Do I Find Out More? [edit]What is the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component. This is prerelease software. You can watch this presentation to learn more about the component kit. It includes the steps required to prepare your Flash content for Flex, and examples of various interaction possibilities.... [edit]What Do I Need to Use It? The Flex Component Kit requires the following: Adobe Flash CS3. Adobe Extension Manager 1.8. This is included with all of the CS3 suites and the Adobe Master Collection. Adobe Flex Builder 2.0.1 or Flex SDK 2.0.1 Flex 2.0.1 patch for CS3 Compatability [edit]Download and Installation The following procedure describes how to download and install the Flex Component Kit. Make sure Adobe Flash CS3 is installed as well as the Adobe Extension Manager 1.8 Download and unzip the documentation ZIP file. Download the Flex Component Kit extension for Flash CS3. Double-click the downloaded .mxp file and follow the instructions in the Extension Manager. [edit]How Do I Use the Flex Component Kit Here is a quick overview of using the Flex Component Kit. Please see the documentation for details. [edit]Flash content requirements Exported content must be a MovieClip symbol Registration point must be upper-left corner Frame rate should be 24 to match Flex’s default frame rate The symbol name should be a valid ActionScript class name (alphanumeric characters only, no spaces) [edit]Preparing Flash content for use in Flex In the Flash Library Panel, select the symbol(s) you want to use in Flex Select Commands > Make Flex Component If the current frame rate is not 24fps, you will be asked if you want to change it to 24fps Any changes made to the FLA file and symbol(s) are printed to the Output panel Select File > Publish to create the SWC file [edit]Bringing the Flash content into Flex In FlexBuilder project properties dialog Choose “Flex Build Path” in the category list Select “Library Path” Select “Add SWC…” and choose the SWC exported from Flash Close the project properties dialog In your MXML code, start typing the name of the Flash class. You will see it in the code hinting popup. [edit]What Are the Limitations? Flex Components created in Flash do not appear in FlexBuilder's Design View or Components Panel. This will be addressed in the next version of Flex Builder. After publishing a SWC from Flash, you may need to touch your MXML file to force a recompile. [edit]How Do I Find Out More? The documentation for the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 contains a PDF file that describes how to use the kit to build Flex components in Flash CS3, and the API reference for the UIMovieClip class. Download the single ZIP file that contains the documentation for the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3. Retrieved from "http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Component_Kit_for_Flash_CS3"