Overview

Using Flash Builder, you can go beyond the Guide customizing options available in the Guide Design perspective in Workbench. You can create Guide extensions designed to suit your specific needs. For example, a Flash developer can create a custom Guide layout control that displays Guide sections and panels in a tree structure.

The process for creating Guide extensions, whether they are Guide layouts, panel layouts, or controls, follows the same general steps:

1. Create a Flex® library project in Flash Builder (see Creating Flex library Projects for Custom Guides ).

2. Create Guide extensions as part of the Flex library project. See one of the following:

   Creating Custom Style Sheets

   Creating Guide Layouts

   Creating Panel Layouts

   Creating Controls

3. Compile the Flex library project to an SWC file (see Building your custom Flex library project ).

4. Import the SWC file or SWF file into the Guide Design perspective in Workbench. (See Referencing custom style sheets in a Guide , Referencing your Flex library project in Workbench , Referencing your Flex library project in Workbench , or Referencing your Flex library project in Workbench ).

5. Apply the new Guide extensions to a Guide.