Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 8. Using Components

Components are prebuilt movie clips that give you a head start, especially when you are creating user interface elements such as scroll bars, menus, and text fields.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Add a simple component to a project

• Modify a component’s parameters

• Configure an interactive component

• Use ActionScript to enable a component

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This lesson will take less than an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard drive, and copy the Lesson08 folder onto it.

Getting Started

In this lesson, you’ll use components to create ...