Flash CS3 component creation : SWC to FLA

Here we will see how to cenvert a SWC based component to FLA based component. I hope you are following along my past posts. So, what we have here is a SWC and its source code ( The FLA and the Class file ). Now, to begin with, remove the SWC, because we no longer want it. Copy the FLA(scrollBar.fla) two times to make 2 more files.This is just to take the back up of the original SWC component file.What we need is two files, one component source file and one component Shim file ( Do not worry too much about the name, just think of it as another file ).So rename the 2 copied files as “FLA scrollBar.fla” and “FLA scrollBar Shim.fla”.

Open “FLA scrollBar.fla” and open its library.You will see, one compiled clip and one moveClip named “samScrollBar_bkup” along with the scrollbar component parts (mc_down,mc_slider,mc_sliderBg,mc_up).This is fine, I made “samScrollBar_bkup” just before compiling the SWC component.So do not worry much about it.Even if you do not have “samScrollBar_bkup” or the compiled clip, it does not make any difference.Only thing that differ would be for you to recreate one scrollbar component, if these things were not there . So problem, we are not going to do anything here. I was just making you aware of the FLA.