Use Flex DateField component in Flash CS6

Question

I'm trying to use the Flex DateField component in Flash CS6. I understand flex swc files which come packaged with Flash by default are not the full packages, so I downloaded the flex SDK.

I linked core.swc and mx.swc from the SDK in "Actionscript Settings" in my project. I can now refer to the DateField component, but when I try to add it to the stage, i get the following error:

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: [mx.core]::IIMESupport
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: [mx.managers]::IFocusManagerComponent

I'm adding it in the following way:

import mx.controls.DateField;
var df:DateField = new DateField();
addChild(df);

I need a date picker component which allows me to disable certain date ranges like before today and after a year and this appears to be the only component that will reliably allow me to do that.

I don't have access to FlashBuilder and FlashDevelop, only Flash Professional CS6. Any help will be appreciated!

Answer 1

It's not possible to use Flex components "as is" in Flash CS6 produced swf at least because the swf document class must be the flex Application .

Flex produced swfs (by mxmlc) also contains some additional logic like loading process with run-time-shared libraries loading and so. And flex is not only these two swc that you linked, if you check flex-config.xml you will find more that 10 different swc with some services, themes, utils and more.

But it should be possible to load flex swf inside CS6 swf with a Loader .