Hi,

I spend some time searching the web for a solution to initialize Flash
components (buttons, input text, list, tree, and so on) properties on the
beginSprite Director?s event and I couldn?t find any practical solution then
I?d like to share with you an easy trick I?ve found.

With this little script you can have just one Flash member on your cast and
put on the stage any number of instances of it and set its properties
independently or you can call any handler that fills data on components like
List, Tree or Data Grid on the beginSprite event.

Works fine and it?s much more efficient than the enterFrame or exitFrame
solutions out there, on this stepFrame is played once instead every application
loop like enterFrame and exitFrame, so no processor penalties.

I hope this can help to anyone who needs it.


-- Behavior Script attached to a button component instance on the stage

property pSprite -- any flash or flash component (a button in this case)
property pName
property pStep

on beginSprite(me)
pSprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
_movie.actorList.append(me)
end

on stepFrame me
if pStep then
_movie.actorList.deleteOne(me)
pSprite.label = pName -- here the code or handler, flash asset full loaded
(button sprite label in this case)
else
pStep = 1
end if
end

on getPropertyDescriptionList(me)
vPDL = [:]
vPDL.addProp(#pName, [#default:"BUTTON", #format:#string, #comment:"NAME:"])
return vPDL
end

-- End Behavior Script