[enflash-developers] Hello and a few questions

[Stefan K. <ste...@tu...>]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to enflash and really impressed. Thanks for the great work.

Currently I'm diggin into the internal structures to be able to work 
with it.
Here are a few questions I can't currently answer but hopefully someone 
out there has a better knowledge of enflash than me ;-)

1. I wanted enFlash not to occupy the whole Movie. I created a handler 
for "themeset" and resized the ui using _ui.setSize(200,300);
This works fine, as a draggable window correctly disappears when draggin 
it out of this region. But the black background still exists over the 
whole movie, which I tracked down to a mysterious MovieClip "Button29" 
which I don't create. (My createUI Method looks like this:

private function createUI():Void
{
        var win = _ui.addWindow(new Window("mainWin"));
       
        win.title = "Test";
        var pane = win.addPane(new ScrollPane("testPane"));
        pane.opaque = true;
        win.setSize(300,150);
        var ta = pane.addItem(new TextArea("ta"));
        ta.value = "<b> Hello</b> world";
       
        _ui.removeEventListener("themeload", this, createUI);

        //debug("ui created");
    }

Does anybody know when and where it is created?


2. there always appears a yellow focus box around buttons, titleBars 
etc. Is there any way to switch this off?
3. I have to create the whole UI rotated by 90 degrees (For a terminal 
monitor rotated by 90 degrees). I tried to simply rotate the movieClip I 
give to the EnFlashConfiguration Object. Everything is rotated but the 
controls aren't sized correctly (eg. the window TitleBar has a height of 
around 100 px) I currently don't have a good understanding how enFlash 
resizes/positions its components so I'm really stuck here.

I'd like to help making enFlash better and easier to understand. Is 
there any wiki floating around where I could post enFlash specific Notes 
especially for beginners to get started? I won't have much time, but 
some notes on the structure of external themes/langs, standard events, 
when they are deployed and what should be done inside their handlers 
would be really helpful.

Thanks again.

Regards
Stefan Klug