F > FComboBox.registerSkinElement |  |

FComboBox.registerSkinElement

FComboBox, FComboBox.registerSkinElement, registerSkinElement

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

    myComboBox.registerSkinElement(element, styleProperty)

Parameters

`element` A movie clip instance.

`styleProperty` The name of an FStyleFormat property.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; registers a skin element to a style property. Skin elements are registered to properties in the first frame of the Read Me layer of each skin the library.

Components are made up of skins, and each skin is composed of several skin elements, each of which can be registered to a property of the FStyleFormat object. These properties are assigned values by the style format assigned to a component. By default, all Flash UI components are assigned the `globalStyleFormat` object, which is an instance of the FStyleFormat object.

Use this method to register custom skin elements and properties to Flash UI or custom component skins by editing the code in the first frame of the Read Me layer of a skin in the library.

The FComboBox component uses the skins in the FComboBox Skins folder once you've added the component to the Flash document.

For more information, see Customizing component skins in the Using Componentschapter of Using Flash.

Example

The following code registers the custom skin element `boundBox_mc` to the `background` property in the first frame of the Read Me layer of the FBoundingBox skin in the Global Skins folder.

    toysMenu.registerSkinElement(boundBox_mc, "background");