User Guide

Incorporating existing components within your component 181

For example the name and password would be passed to a web service

which authenticates the name and password and returns a session ID

and/or permission roles attributed to the user. */

myLoginValues.text = "Processing...\r";

myLoginValues.text += "Name: " + myLogin.name + " Password: " +

myLogin.password;

}

myLogin.addEventListener("click",this);

Select Control > Test Movie to test the component in Flash Player.

To export the LogIn component:

1. In the LogIn.fla file, select the LogIn movie clip in the library and select Component

Definition from the Library context menu (Windows: Right-click, Mac: control-click).

2. Check the Display in Components panel.

3. Click OK.

4. In the LogIn.fla file, select the LogIn movie clip in the library, again, and select Export

SWC File from the Library context menu (Windows: Right-click, Mac: control-click).

5. Select a location to save the SWC file.

If you save it to the Components folder in the user-level configuration folder, you can

reload the Components panel without restarting Flash and the component appears in the

Components panel.

The completed LogIn component

NOTE

Since you are testing this component within your original document, you may see a

warning message about having the same linkage identifier for two symbols. The

component will still work. In practice, you will use the new component within another

document in which case the linkaged identifier should be unique.

NOTE

For information about folder locations, see “Configuration folders installed with

Flash” in Getting Started with Flash.