Scaleform® GFx™ 3.0 introduces the Common Lightweight Interface Kit (CLIK™) to help accelerate the design and development of user interfaces on multiple platforms including PCs, Consoles, and Mobiles. The CLIK component architecture and workflow enhancement tools enable users to rapidly create user interfaces from prototype to final design.
Adobe Flash contains a variety of premade and preconfigured interface components to enable easy interface creation. The Scaleform CLIK components are similar to the components found in Flash, but have been custom-designed specifically for Scaleform GFx 3.0.
Easily Create and Customize UI Elements with Minimal Coding
The Scaleform CLIK components can be created by dragging and dropping them from the component library onto the stage in Flash. The Scaleform CLIK Components consist of over 15 different and highly customizable and combinable objects. These components are easy to "skin," simple to extend and lightweight in terms of memory and CPU usage.
CLIK Components
Component Inspector
A fully interactive user interface can be built with very little ActionScript code. In addition, the components can be easily skinned using the full range of Adobe Creative Suite tools. Please see the CLIK Getting Started guide for a simple UI creation and skinning tutorial.
Rapid Visual Skinning
Technical Highlights
- Allows for rapid UI prototyping and skinning using the full set of Adobe tools for multiple design and testing iterations.
- Comes with a flexible bi-directional communication mechanism for the components and the game, making it very easy to connect UI interaction with game logic and vice versa.
- Components come with an intelligent and flexible input and focus routing system that liberates the user from creating a system from scratch.
Scaleform CLIK components and workflow enhancements are compatible with Flash 8, Flash CS3 and Flash CS4. The components require the Garbage Collection system introduced in GFx 3.0, thus making it incompatible with previous versions of GFx.
