Packagecom.soma.assets
Classpublic class MovieClipAsset
ImplementsIAsset

Author: Romuald Quantin - www.soundstep.com

Information:
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Project Host - Google Code
Documentation - Soma ASDOC
Class version: 2.0
Actionscript version: 3.0

Copyright:

The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License
Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing rights and
limitations under the License.

The Original Code is Soma.
The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Romuald Quantin.
Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Soundstep. All Rights Reserved.

Usage:
Used by the NodeParser class to instantiate a MovieClip from a Flash IDE library (or SWC) and a XML node.

node name: movieclip creates a MovieClip instance from a movie clip in a flash IDE library (or SWC) using the linkage name.
<movieclip id="myMovieClip" linkage="MyMovieClipClassInLibrary" x="50" alpha=".5" verticalCenter="0" />

See also

Library
NodeParser
AssetFactory
IAsset


Public Methods
 MethodDefined by
  
Creates an MovieClipAsset instance, it should not be used as it should be instantiated by a NodeParser class.
MovieClipAsset
  
instantiate(node:XML, baseUI:BaseUI = null):DisplayObject
Parse a XML node to create and return a MovieClip instance.
MovieClipAsset
Constructor detail
MovieClipAsset()constructor
public function MovieClipAsset()

Creates an MovieClipAsset instance, it should not be used as it should be instantiated by a NodeParser class.

Method detail
instantiate()method
public function instantiate(node:XML, baseUI:BaseUI = null):DisplayObject

Parse a XML node to create and return a MovieClip instance. Class specific properties (such as alpha for a MovieClip) and BaseUI properties (such as horizontalCenter) will also be parsed and applied to the asset.

Parameters
node:XML — node XML describing the asset.
 
baseUI:BaseUI (default = null) — BaseUI instance (if existing) that will handle the asset.

Returns
DisplayObject