[FLEX-14765] Button skin name (*skinName) properties should be public (and not mx_internal)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: Button
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 21/May/08 06:46
• Updated: 21/May/08 06:47

Description

The mx.controls.Button uses skins to display itself.

A skin has a 'name' property that allow to have a different rendering depending on this value.
Each state of the button has a corresponding name that is set to the skin.
So a same skin can display the different state of the button.

These skin names are controlled by the following properties:

• skinName
• upSkinName
• overSkinName
• downSkinName
• disabledSkinName
• selectedUpSkinName
• selectedOverSkinName
• selectedDownSkinName
  -selectedDisabledSkinName

Other components can use button instances and choose different names for each state in order to provide a different skin implementation.
This is done in the ScrollBar component for example.

Unfortunately, these properties are all in the mx_internal namespace which is a issue for other components to use Button instances in the same way.