Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual page 199

USING FIREWORKS CS4
Prototyping websites and application interfaces
Skin Flex components
You can create skins for a wide variety of Flex components based on the Flex skin templates and edit them in
Fireworks.
Select Commands > Flex Skinning > New Flex Skin.
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Do one of the following:
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• To create Flex skins for all available components, select Multiple Components.
Fireworks creates a single document with all the available Flex components.
• To specify the components you want to create skins for, select Specific Components.
Select only the components with a specific style attached or select all instances of the component.
Click OK.
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Export Flex skins
Select Commands > Flex Skinning > Export Flex Skin.
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Select the folder to which you want to export the Fireworks document and click Open.
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MXML export limitations
Before you use the Flex MXML export feature, it's important to know about its capabilities and limitations:
MXML export does not skin components
you've modified them in Fireworks. MXML export simply generates MXML documents for use in Flex. These
documents can also include linked images for Fireworks objects that can't be converted into MXML tags. These images
are added to the MXML document via <mx:Image> tags.
MXML export ignores slices
slices are not considered in creating images or table cells. When MXML export creates images, it uses the optimization
settings of the document to determine the image format and compression method.
MXML properties are limited to rich symbol properties
tag on the Flex component in Fireworks. Fireworks provides a subset of Flex components with a limited number of
properties.
Properties recognized as styles are separated from the MXML tags created, but are kept within
Styles are embedded
the same MXML document inside a <mx:Style> tag. Fireworks cannot define the styles in an external CSS file.
When creating designs and layouts for MXML output, do not use frames. If you want to
Frames are not supported
have different designs in one document, use pages.
More Help topics
"Create and use component
Exporting to MXML does not create skins for components in Flex, even if
Because MXML export is designed to generate a tag-based document for use with Flex,
The MXML export feature bases the properties of an MXML
symbols" on page 149
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