Create a button with an icon in actionscript
Solution 1
I found an answer that works for me. In my .mxml file, I create Classes for the icons I will use:
// Classes for icons
[Embed(source='images/closeWindowUp.png')]
public static var CloseWindowUp:Class;
[Embed(source='/images/Down_Up.png')]
public static var Down_Up:Class;
[Embed(source='/images/Up_Up.png')]
public static var Up_Up:Class;
In the Actionscript portion of my application, I use these classes when dynamically creating buttons:
var buttonHBox:HBox = new HBox();
var closeButton:Button = new Button();
var upButton:Button = new Button();
var downButton:Button = new Button();
closeButton.setStyle("icon", SimpleWLM.CloseWindowUp);
buttonHBox.addChild(closeButton);
upButton.setStyle("icon", SimpleWLM.Up_Up);
buttonHBox.addChild(upButton);
downButton.setStyle("icon", SimpleWLM.Down_Up);
buttonHBox.addChild(downButton);
Solution 2
You can use this one option of dynamic change of button icon.
Embed your icons
[Embed(source='com/images/play.png')]
[Bindable]
public var imagePlay:Class;
[Embed(source='com/images/pause.png')]
[Bindable]
public var imagePause:Class;
Using one button to toggle play and pause of video
private function playpause():void
{
if (seesmicVideo.playing)
{
seesmicVideo.pause();
btn_play.setStyle("icon",imagePlay);
}
else
{
seesmicVideo.play();
btn_play.setStyle("icon",imagePause);
}
}
Solution 3
The error is in the quotes, there should be no quotes around the @Embed
:
closeButton.setStyle("icon", @Embed(source="images/closeWindowUp.png"));
Solution 4
I was able to use an icon in my button with the following code:
<mx:Button id="buttonPlay" label="Play" click="playButtonClicked();" enabled="false" icon="@Embed('./play.png')"/>
the file play.png is in the same folder of the mxml file.
I am using Flash Builder version 4.6.
Edit: the question was about ActionScript and not MXML, but I leave this answer just for reference.
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Comments
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Kevin Beck almost 2 years
I want to create buttons with icons in Flex dynamically using Actionscript.
I tried this, with no success:
var closeButton = new Button(); closeButton.setStyle("icon", "@Embed(source='images/closeWindowUp.png");
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edam almost 10 yearsFor me, this just gives the following error:
1041: Attributes are not callable.
. I'm using Flex 3, though.