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Converting a MX component to a Spark Component.

In this brief set of posts I wanted to document how to convert a simple MX component over to a Spark component. I have chosen to convert the MX ColorPicker because it is one of the components that Adobe hasn't moved over to the Spark framework yet as well as being the component that I used to learn the Flex3 Framework. You can see the outcome and view the source of that in my previous posts from a couple of years ago here and here

Below you can see the three components.

The Spark component does all the stuff the old MX one does like keyboard movement, selectedIndex, selectedColor, colorLabel, etc.. In addition I also added the ability to set/get the selectedItem and dispatching indexChange events.

To begin with lets look at what the current color picker does.