Customizing Media Components (Flash Professional Only) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

Customizing media components (Flash
Professional only)
If you want to change the appearance of your media components, you can use skinning. For a
complete guide to component customization, see Chapter 5, "Customizing Components" in
Using Components.
Using styles with media components
The media components do not use styles.
Using skins with media components
The media components do not support dynamic skinning, although you can open the media
component source document and change their assets to achieve the desired look. It is best to
make a copy of this file and work from the copy, so that you always have the installed source
to go back to. You can find the media component source document at the following locations:
Windows: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\<language>\Configuration\
ComponentFLA\MediaComponents.fla
Macintosh: HD/Applications/Macromedia Flash 8/Configuration/ComponentFLA/
MediaComponents.fla
Media class (Flash Professional only)
Inheritance
MovieClip >
ActionScript Class Names
mx.controls.MediaPlayback
Each component class has a
available only for the class itself. The
version of the component. To access this property, use the following code:
trace(mx.controls.MediaPlayback.version);
The code
trace(myMediaInstance.version);
UIObject class > UIComponent class
mx.controls.MediaController, mx.controls.MediaDisplay,
property, which is a class property. Class properties are
version
property returns a string that indicates the
version
> Media
returns .
undefined
Media class (Flash Professional only) 847