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Trying to create Flex button via pure AS

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The code doesn't actually produce the sWF on the right.
That SWF was generated when I originally forked from the original.
This code doesn't compile at all.

Tastypuppies..

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/*forked from tomohero's flash on 2009-2-25*/

/*
The code doesn't actually produce the sWF on the right.
That SWF was generated when I originally forked from the original.
This code doesn't compile at all.

package {
            import mx.controls.Button;
            import mx.events.FlexEvent;
public class whatever {
        
            public function whatever() {
            }

private var myButton:Button;

private function creationCompleteHandler():void

{
                // Create a Button instance and set its label 
                myButton = new Button();
                myButton.label = "I'm a button!";
                
                // Get notified once button component has been created and processed for layout

myButton.addEventListener (FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, buttonCreationCompleteHandler);
                
                // Add the Button instance to the DisplayList
                addChild (myButton);
            } 
            
            private function buttonCreationCompleteHandler ( evt:FlexEvent ):void

{
                // Center the button 
                myButton.x = parent.width/2 - myButton.width/2;
                myButton.y = parent.height/2 - myButton.height/2;
            }
   }
}

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I haven't found a single code on this site that has succeeded in creating a button via pure AS. Anybody know how to do it? Is it possible?

So far, all I've seen is the creation of controls via MXML. But if MXML is just turned into intermediate AS3 code and then compiled into SWF bytecode, that must mean that there's correct, pure AS3 code for creating Flex controls on the stage. But what is it? How?

by Tastypuppies
at 2009/09/18 01:00:21