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Other listings in this chapter
This chapter also describes several classes and APIs that don’t fall into the above categories of
components. They are listed in the following table.
Class Description
Form class (Flash Professional
only)
Lets you manipulate form application screens at runtime.
Screen class Base class for the Slide and Form classes. See Screen class
(Flash Professional only).
Slide class (Flash Professional
only)
Lets you manipulate slide presentation screens at runtime.
Item Description
CellRenderer API A set of properties and methods that the list-based components
(List, DataGrid, Tree, Menu, and ComboBox) use to manipulate
and display custom cell content for each of their rows.
Collection interface (Flash
Professional only)
Lets you manage a group of related items, called collection items.
Each collection item in this set has properties that are described in
the metadata of the collection item class definition.
DataGridColumn class (Flash
Professional only)
Lets you create objects to use as columns of a data grid.
Delegate class Allows a function passed from one object to another to be run in
the context of the first object.
Delta interface (Flash
Professional only)
Provides access to the transfer object, collection, and transfer
object-level changes.
DeltaItem class (Flash
Professional only)
Provides information about an individual operation performed on a
transfer object.
DeltaPacket interface (Flash
Professional only)
Along with the Delta interface and DeltaItem class, lets you
manage changes made to data.
EventDispatcher class Let you add and remove event listeners so that your code can react
to events appropriately.
Iterator interface (Flash
Professional only)
Lets you step through the objects that a collection contains.
MenuDataProvider class Lets XML instances assigned to a
Menu.dataProvider property use
methods and properties to manipulate their own data as well as the
associated menu views.
RectBorder class Describes the styles used to control component borders.
SimpleButton class Lets you control some aspects of button appearance and
behavior.
TransferObject interface Defines a set of methods that items managed by the DataSet
component must implement.