Chapter 32. Using Components
A major revolution in past versions of the Flash authoring tool was the addition of a whole new set of components, known as V2 components, and the architecture that they use. Flash CS4 continues to offer the same variety of components, with some modifications to solve minor bugs present in the previous versions. Flash CS4 also offers an entire set of components written in ActionScript 3.0. Components offer an easy way to reuse complicated elements within your movie without having to build them on your own. Although it's beyond the scope of this chapter, you can also build your own custom components. In this chapter, we take a look at what components are, their parameters, and how to work with many of the components included with Flash CS4.
Flash CS4 ships with 22 User Interface components (ActionScript 2.0), 6 Data components (ActionScript 2.0), and several components related to Flash Video playback and control. Flash CS4 has 17 User Interface components written in ActionScript 3.0, as well as updated versions of the FLVPlayback components.
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The updated FLVPlayback components enable you to play Flash Video files (.flv) with extreme ease. We discuss these components at length in Chapter 16, "Displaying ...
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