User Guide

36 Accordion component (Flash Professional only)
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Using the Accordion component (Flash
Professional only)
You can use the Accordion component to present multipart forms. For example, a three-child
accordion might present forms where the user fills out her shipping address, billing address,
and payment information for an e-commerce transaction. Using an accordion instead of
multiple web pages minimizes server traffic and allows the user to maintain a better sense of
progress and context in an application.
Accordion parameters
You can set the following authoring parameters for each Accordion component instance in
the Property inspector or the Component inspector (Window > Component Inspector
menu option):
childIcons is an array that specifies the linkage identifiers of the library symbols to be used as
the icons on the accordion’s headers. The default value is
[] (an empty array).
childLabels is an array that specifies the text labels to use on the accordion’s headers. The
default value is
[] (an empty array).
childNames is an array that specifies the instance names of the accordion’s children. The
values that you enter are the instance names for the child symbols that you specify in the
childSymbols parameter. The default value is
[] (an empty array).
childSymbols is an array that specifies the linkage identifiers of the library symbols to be used
to create the accordion’s children. The default value is
[] (an empty array).
You can set the following additional parameters for each Accordion component instance in
the Component inspector (Window > Component Inspector):
Page Up Selects the previous child. Selection cycles from the first child to the
last child.
Shift+Tab Moves focus to the previous component. This component may be
inside the selected child, or outside the accordion; it is never another
header in the same accordion.
Tab Moves focus to the next component. This component may be inside
the selected child, or outside the accordion; it is never another
header in the same accordion.
Key Description