alter layout of media controller...Help please

[generator1]

Hi,

I am editing the graphics in a v2 mediaController component to the look I would like it to have. I am left with these questions however:

1)

How do you control the placement of the items inside the controller .swc?
Such as the positioning of the Play button...

2)

How can I change the look of the Play/Pause toggle button. As in where do the graphics come from?


I have tried just visually placing them, but the "play" and "gotoEnd" "gotoStart" buttons seem to get their relative position from some script...?

What I'm trying to do, is to get all items horizontally in line with each other.


Any help is greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Gene

[gparis]

Hi,
To 'skin' components in MX you need to find the assets in the library. Then once inside the object, 'edit' their look one by one as you want. Changing their position maybe a little harder, depending on how the app is built and scripted.

gparis

[oceansky]

I have the same question with generator1:

However, I think that we know how to modify skin and edit assets in the library, but just cannot find the one related to Play/Pause toggle button.

Can anyone help? Thank you very much.

[oceansky]

I have the same question with generator1:

Howver, I think that we know how to modify skin and edit assets in the library, but just cannot find the one related to Play/Pause toggle button.

Can anyone help? Thank you very much.

[generator1]

Hey,

Oceansky,

Yes the play/pause toggle button uses the "UI compopnent button" for it's functionality and the play and pause icons are actually just graphic symbols put on top of this button component...So, I guess you could open the UI components .fla and edit the graphics for the button...

For the placement of the items, I started playing around with the ActionScript files that the MediComponents use (C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\First Run\Classes\mx\controls). The Actionscript itself is quite understandable, but when I wanted to compile my component to .swc there was an error message everytime I wanted to tell it to use my ActionScript file rather that the standard "MediaController.as" file.
If you have any luck with this, please let me know...and the other way around of course...


Have a nice day,

Gene