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Using ActionScript 2.0 Components

Using ActionScript 2.0 Components

Flash CS3 Professional is the standard authoring tools for producing high-impact web experiences. Components are the building blocks for the rich Internet applications that provide these experiences. A component is a movie clip with parameters that are set during authoring in Flash, and with ActionScript methods, properties, and events that allow you to customize the component at runtime. Components are designed to allow developers to reuse and share code, and to encapsulate complex functionality that designers can use and customize without using ActionScript.

Components are built on version 2 of the Adobe Component Architecture, which allows you to easily and quickly build robust applications with a consistent appearance and behavior. This book describes how to build applications with version 2 components. The related ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference describes each component's application programming interface (API). It includes usage scenarios and procedural samples for using the Flash version 2 components, as well as descriptions of the component APIs, in alphabetical order.

You can use components created by Adobe, download components created by other developers, or create your own components.

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