How to make a small flash swf with ComboBox in Actionscript 3?

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Published on 2010-02-11T17:45:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 15:43 UTC
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I have a pure Actionscript 3 project, using flash.* libraries, compiles down to about 6k (using mxmlc). Program handles about 1k shapes, a few sprites, a sockets connection, works great (tastes less filling).

Now, how would I add a ComboBox control without incurring excessive bloat?

More specificially, I would like to keep the size under 100k.

So far I have tried:

  • Adobe mx.controls ComboBoxexample - simple mxml example compiles to 200+k both on my main Linux Box using mxmlc and in Windows using Flash Builder 4
  • Yahoo Astra - uses mx libraries underneath(so as bloated as Adobe?), plus does not contain exact ComboBox
  • Keith Peter's MinimalComps - seems small, but far from providing ComboBox functionality
  • SPAS (Swing Package for Actionscript) - compiles to 130k, but alpha version of ComboBox does not let me adjust height...
  • asuilib - compiles to 40k, unfortunately this ComboBox does not provide for scrolling items...if it does not fit on screen no way to scroll to it

Now my questions:

  1. Is there a way to lower size for projects importing mx.controls ?
  2. Maybe there is a way to fix SPAS or asuilib ComboBoxes?
  3. Perhaps, there are some other libraries which provide a ComboBox(or DropList)?

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