Customizing FTE

Customizing button icons

You can create your own control button icons to use instead of standard ones. Here's how you would do this:

1. Create movieclips with graphics for each icon.

2. Right click on the movieclips that you just created in the library and select 'Linkage...'. Click on 'Export for ActionScript' in the 'Linkage Properties' dialog window and give the movie clips an Identifier name with same prefix (e.g. myFTEIcons).

For example, after creating movieclip icons for bold, italic and underline, you would set their identifier names to myFTEIcons_bold, myFTEIcons_italic and myFTEIcons_underline.

3. Go to the 'Component Inspector' panel and set the 'iconPrefix' property value to be the prefix value that you set for each icon, e.g. myFTEIcons

After exporting the swf, you should see your own icons instead of the standard icons.

 

Version 2.x.x:

Use source FLA files packed with the component to change the appearence.

Version 1.5.x:

If you are using FlashTextEditor version 1.5.0 and higher please use the popUp event handler to change the dialog window appearance.

Version 1.0.0 and 1.1.0:

This tutorial explains how to customize the pop-up dialog boxes for the FlashTexteditor. Before you begin, please download and unzip this file.

Follow these steps to change the appearance of the image, url or leading dialog boxes:

1. Open FTEForms.fla from the zipped file that you just downloaded.

2. Drag the "form" movie clips from the FTEForms.fla library into the library of the document containing the FlashTexteditor component, where you would like your custom form to appear.

3. Close the FTEForms.fla document.

4. Double click on the desired "form" movieclip in the library and edit its appearance as you please.

NOTE:

- You should always keep the instance names of the form elements intact, so that the component will function correctly.
- The "form" movie clip should be exported for ActionScript in the same frame as the component, or before the frame where the component is exported. If the "Export in first frame" option is checked for the FlashTexteditor component, it also should be checked for the custom form movie clips.
- The size or title of the dialog windows cannot be changed in the FlashTexteditor v1.0.