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Using ActionScript 2.0 Components > Creating Components > Creating the ActionScript class file > Identifying the class, symbol, and owner names

Identifying the class, symbol, and owner names

To help Flash find the proper ActionScript classes and packages and to preserve the component's naming, you must set the symbolName, symbolOwner, and className variables in your component's ActionScript class file.

The symbolOwner variable is an Object reference that refers to a symbol. If the component is its own symbolOwner or is the symbolOwner has been imported, it does not have to be fully qualified.

The following table describes these variables:

Variable

Type

Description

symbolName

String

The name of the ActionScript class (for example, ComboBox).

This name must match the symbol's linkage identifier.

This variable must be static.

symbolOwner

Object

The fully qualified class name (for example, mypackage.MyComponent).

Do not use quotation marks around the symbolOwner value, because it is an Object data type.

This name must match the AS 2.0 class in the Linkage Properties dialog box.

This variable is used in the internal call to the createClassObject() method.

This variable must be static.

className

String

The name of the component class. This does not include the package name and has no corresponding setting in the Flash development environment.

You can use the value of this variable when setting style properties.

The following example adds the symbolName, symbolOwner, and className variables to the MyButton class:

class MyButton extends mx.controls.Button {
    static var symbolName:String = "MyButton";
    static var symbolOwner = myPackage.MyButton;
    var className:String = "MyButton";
}

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