Understanding Custom Video Controllers While the default skins supplied with the Flash Video component are top quality and rather attractive, you might have a project that requires a custom skin....
The Macromedia Flash Video component in Dreamweaver 8 helps you easily insert and display Flash Video (FLV) files in your websites without using the Macromedia Flash authoring tool. The Flash...
Skinning with Code In general, if you want more control over your skinning, you must use code. In some cases, this method also offers skinning options not available in the...
Skinning Without Code Visually skinning components usually involves modifying library symbols to represent what you want a component to look like. Many longtime Flash users were surprised that they couldn't...
Benefits of the V2 Skinning Architecture The Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 components are based on the Version 2.0 component framework, the latest framework provided by Macromedia. One of...
Creating a Custom Skin SWF As you discovered previously, using the Select Skin dialog box and the skin SWF feature is quick and easy. In this section, you will take...
Using FLV Playback Custom UI Components Another cool new feature of the FLVPlayback component is the addition of the supporting FLV Playback Custom UI components. You probably noticed the two...
Using Prebuilt Skin SWF Files The new FLVPlayback component is packed with great features. One thing you'll notice while working with the FLVPlayback component is that it comes with a...
Customizing the FLVPlayback Component One of the feature upgrades in Flash Professional 8 is the new FLVPlayback component for Flash Video. For those of you who have been waiting for...
Flash components received a major upgrade in Flash MX 2004. One of the areas that received a facelift is the skinning mechanism. Flash 8 introduces some changes to the workflow...
More Advanced Skinning So far you have used a graphical symbol in the library to represent a specific skin. This approach is the simplest and provides a straightforward approach, but...
Skinning with Code In general, if you want more control over your skinning, you must use code. In some cases, this method also offers skinning options not available in the...