User Guide

12 Chapter 1: About Components
About version 2 component architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
What’s new in version 2 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
About compiled clips and SWC files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Accessibility and components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing components
A set of Macromedia components is already installed when you launch Flash MX 2004 or Flash
MX Professional 2004 for the first time. You can view them in the Components panel.
Flash MX 2004 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 tIn pu t c om po n e nt
• Window component
Flash MX Professional 2004 includes the Flash MX 2004 components and 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)
• Form class (Flash Professional only)
• Media components (Flash Professional only)
• Menu component (Flash Professional only)
• MenuBar component (Flash Professional only)