5. Using ActionScript and Components to Load Content

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Work with Flash CS5 User Interface components.

• Create an instance of the List component and customize its parameters.

• Trigger an ActionScript event listener when the selected item in a List component instance changes.

• Use the UILoader component to control SWF file and bitmap image loading and display.

• Change the source file of the UILoader component with ActionScript.

• Work with the URLLoader class to load text data from an external file into a Flash movie.

• Add an event listener to respond to the successful completion of a data load operation.

• Set the properties of a text field with ActionScript.

• Use the ...

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