Recognizing set width/height of flash cs5 component?

Question

i have a class, that extends Sprite and i want to build a Flash CS5 component out of it (using the component panel in Flash CS5, so some designers can benefit from it).

The specialty is, i am overriding the setters/getters of width/height and also scaleX/scaleY of my component, because i want to do some special stuff there, but of course i still call super.width, ... and so on.

So, i set up everything, drag an instance on the stage at author time, resize it to my needs. But at runtime now, i had to find, that neither my overridden width or height setters, nor my overridden scaleX / scaleY setters are ever called.

Still, my component got resized. So i ask myself, what is Flash CS5 doing to change the size of my component, if it is not using width/height or scaleX/scaleY? Everything else works as expected, i have some parameters, which i set to inspectable and i can set them in the panel in the flash IDE, it just works fine. Only my overridden setters are not called.

It is probably because your calling the super getter and setter methods. Try removing them and instead storing the values you set and get in private properties such as _width and _height. — Taurayi

Roy Roy · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-01T08:13:05

I don't think it gets resized, I think it gets instantiated with this size. I wrote a test app that shows the width and height are already set in the constructor.

Recognizing set width/height of flash cs5 component?

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