Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide

Macromedia’s DRK

In October 2002, Macromedia released the first Developer Resource Kits (DRK), containing the UI Components Set 3 and one of the most important Flash extensions to date—the DataGrid component. The DataGrid component is especially important if you are going to be using Flash Remoting. Whereas the standard Flash UI components are included with Flash MX and the UI Components Set 2 are a free download, the DRK is a commercial product available from Macromedia for $99 at:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/drk

UI Components Set 3

The UI components that come with Flash MX provide some useful functionality and interaction with some standard user interface elements. The free UI Components Set 2 adds some more esoteric functionality to the Flash developer’s toolbox, such as a calendar control and a ticker. The UI Components Set 3 is available only as part of the DRK and offers more advanced message boxes, tooltips, and loading boxes. None of the UI components in this third set, listed in Table 3-3, are data-aware.

Table 3-3. UI Components Set 3, code hint suffixes, and object types

Component	Object type	Code hints suffix
AdvancedMessageBox	FAdvancedMessageBox	None available
LoadingBox	FLoadingBox	None available
PromptBox	FPromptBox	None available
Tooltip	FTooltip	None available
TooltipLite	FTooltipLite	None available

Here is a brief description of the components in the UI Components Set 3:

PromptBox

The PromptBox component is handy for getting an item of data ...