User Guide

12 About Components
This chapter contains the following sections:
Installing components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Where component files are stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Modifying the component files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Benefits of using components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Component categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
About version 2 component architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Version 2 component features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About compiled clips and SWC files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Accessibility and components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing components
A set of Macromedia components is already installed when you start Flash for the first time.
You can view them in the Components panel.
Flash Basic 8 includes the following components:
■ Button component
■ CheckBox component
■ ComboBox component
■ Label component
■ List component
■ Loader component
■ NumericStepper component
■ ProgressBar component
■ RadioButton component
■ ScrollPane component
■ TextArea component
■ Tex t In p u t c o m pon e n t
■ Window component