[AS3] SliderUI - Make draggable sliders easily and quickly!

[mprzybylski]

View Example (http://evolve.reintroducing.com/_source/classes/as3/SliderUI/SliderUIExample.html)
View Documentation (http://evolve.reintroducing.com/_source/classes/as3/SliderUI/SliderUI.html)
View Post/Download (http://evolve.reintroducing.com/2008/07/28/as3/as3-sliderui/)

If you’re anything like me, you hate using components and try to steer clear of them WHENEVER you can. The SliderUI was spawned from this hate and is a super easy way to create a slider (the equivalent to the Slider component, except it weighs in at a whopping 1KB compared to the 17KB of the component). The SliderUI has pretty much all of the same functionality of the Slider component.

[dail]

Looks nice.

Interesting that you use a timer to update the slide value in combo with your getters.

Whenever I make one of these I usually go the event dispatch route as a means for outside parties to access the sliders values. So its cool to see a different approach.

[mprzybylski]

hey dail,
thanks. I use getters/setters just so that you could retrieve it at any time independent of any events.

[dail]

Hi,

Yeah, that's cool.

I like events so I can just listen to that event and get a constantly updating slider value from the slider as it changes, good for say, creating a volume slider or something. I usually throw in getters/setters as well.

I'm in at work, so I can't open your demo .fla (Flash 8 only here) to see how you have set it all up.

Anyway, its nice. All your class's are well thought out and thorough.

[mprzybylski]

yeah, normally i would like doing that as well, i just figured that a user who needs to have it in that manner can run an enter frame or a timer or whatever to just pull the getter (or a mouseMove for the slider). i guess i could have also made it dispatch on mouse move, there is alot of ways this could have been done actually now that you bring it up :P i guess i just did what made sense at the time.

there isnt really much in the fla, just a call to the constructor for each slider passing in the given params and thats really it.

and thanks for the kind words, i hope people get some use out of the classes i create.

[Sith717]

Nice, can you add a separate FLA file for the horizontal slider since when I try to remove the vertical one, the horizontal one stops working...