User Guide
Installing components 13
Flash Professional 8 includes the Flash Basic 8 components plus the following additional
components and classes:
■ Accordion component (Flash Professional only)
■ Alert component (Flash Professional only)
■ Data binding classes (Flash Professional only)
■ DateField component (Flash Professional only)
■ DataGrid component (Flash Professional only)
■ DataHolder component (Flash Professional only)
■ DataSet component (Flash Professional only)
■ DateChooser component (Flash Professional only)
■ FLVPlayback Component (Flash Professional Only)
■ Form class (Flash Professional only)
■ Media components (Flash Professional only)
■ Menu component (Flash Professional only)
■ MenuBar component (Flash Professional only)
■ RDBMSResolver component (Flash Professional only)
■ Screen class (Flash Professional only)
■ Slide class (Flash Professional only)
■ Tree component (Flash Professional only)
■ WebServiceConnector component (Flash Professional only)
■ XMLConnector component (Flash Professional only)
■ XUpdateResolver component (Flash Professional only)
To view the Flash Basic 8 or Flash Professional 8 components:
1. Start Flash.
2. Select Window > Components to open the Components panel if it isn’t already open.
3. Select User Interface to expand the tree and view the installed components.
You can also download components from the Macromedia Exchange at
www.macromedia.com/exchange. To install components downloaded from the Exchange,
download and install the Macromedia Extension Manager at www.macromedia.com/
exchange/em_download/
Any component can appear in the Components panel in Flash. Follow these steps to install
components on either a Windows or Macintosh computer.