Adobe Devnet Article: Building a List component in Flash Lite
May 5th, 2009 by scottjanousek
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The one (and only) “Darren” I know from Canada.
Darren has an Adobe Devnet Article called “Building a List component in Flash Lite”. He covers creating a simple scrollable data list component for Flash Lite 2.x/3.x (AS 2.0).
“In this tutorial I’ll describe how to build a simple but useful List component for Flash Lite applications.
You may be familiar with the ActionScript 2.0 List component that ships with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Due to the memory and processor constraints of the mobile environment, that component isn’t practical for use in Flash Lite applications.
This article includes the sample files for the completed custom List component.
The sample project can be extended and updated to tailor any part of it to fit the needs of your Flash Lite mobile application.”
It’s important to remember there are a few existing component sets and frameworks out in the community that Flash Lite Developers can take advantage of.
Of course, all of these are “works in progress”, sometimes it is better just to created something from scratch which you have totally control over.
There are also some privately developed components and frameworks that Flash Lite (unnamed) shops have built …
Unfortunately, because of the way Flash Lite evolved (without a particularly strong developer ecosystem), those companies are using them internally for projects (and not selling them commercially, yet).
Perhaps in the future these companies will sell these to the developer community as products (that’s historically what’s happened with desktop Flash components).
Right now, articles like Darren‘s, and even upcoming books cover what’s available out there for Flash Lite developers.