User Guide
22 Creating an Application with Components (Flash Professional Only)
The application uses the ComboBox, DataGrid, TextArea, and Button components, as well as
others, to create the application interface. The main page of the interface looks like this:
The application uses the ActionScript WebService class to connect dynamically to a web
service to retrieve the list of offenses (problems.xml) that appear in the combo box. It also uses
ActionScript to handle the user’s interactions with the application.
The application uses data components to connect the interface to another data source. It uses
the XMLConnector component to connect to an XML data file (products.xml) for the list of
gifts and it uses the DataSet component to filter the data and present it to the data grid.
The tutorial requires some familiarity with the Flash authoring environment and some
experience with ActionScript. In the authoring environment, you should have some
experience using panels, tools, the timeline, and the library. All the ActionScript needed for
creating the sample application is provided here within the tutorial. To understand the
scripting concepts and create your own applications, however, you will need additional
experience writing ActionScript.
To see a working version of the completed application, see “Viewing the completed
application” on page 47
Keep in mind that the sample application is for demonstration purposes and therefore is not
as complete as a real-world application.