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Using skins with the MenuBar component

The MenuBar component uses three skins to represent its background, uses a movie clip symbol for highlighting individual items, and contains a Menu component as the pop-up, which itself is skinnable. The MenuBar skins are described in the following table. For information about skinning the Menu component, see Using skins with the Menu component.

The MenuBar component supports the following skin properties.

Property

Description
menuBarBackLeftName

The up state of the pop-up icon
menuBarBackRightName

The down state of the pop-up icon
menuBarBackMiddleName

The disabled state of the pop-up icon

To create movie clip symbols for MenuBar skins:

  1. Select File > New and choose Flash File (ActionScript 2.0).
  2. Select File > Import > Open External Library and then select the HaloTheme.fla file.

    This file is located in the application-level configuration folder. For the exact location on your operating system, see About themes in Using ActionScript 2.0 Components.

  3. In the theme's Library panel, expand the Flash UI Components 2/Themes/MMDefault folder and drag the MenuBar Assets folder to the library of your document.
  4. Expand the MenuBar Assets/Elements folder in the library of your document.
  5. Open the symbols that you want to customize for editing.

    For example, open the MenuBarBackLeft symbol.

  6. Customize the symbol as desired.

    For example, change the outer edge to blank.

  7. Repeat steps 5-6 for all symbols that you want to customize.

    For example, set the outer edges for the middle and right symbols to black.

  8. Click the Back button to return to the main timeline.
  9. Drag a MenuBar component to the Stage.
  10. Set MenuBar properties so that they display items on the bar.
  11. Select Control > Test Movie.

    NOTE

    The border used to highlight individual items in a MenuBar component is an instance of ActivatorSkin found in the Flash UI Components 2/Themes/MMDefault/Button Assets folder. This symbol can be customized to point to a different class to provide a different border. However, the symbol name cannot be modified, and you cannot use a different symbol for different MenuBar instances in a single document.

 

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