17. Adding Display Components

What You'll Do

Understand Basic Components

Add a Text Input

Add a Combo Text Box

Add a Check Box

Add a Radio Button

Add a Text Area

Add a Button

Add a Menu Bar

Add an Alert

Add a List

Add a Label

Use Components to Build a Form

Introduction

Components are building blocks than you can use to create interactive, dynamic Flash documents. Think of a component as a movie clip with modifiable parameters, which are set during the design of a Flash document, and ActionScript APIs (APIs allow you to customize the component at runtime). Since components are reusable, they give developers the ability to share code between projects. Since components are rooted in ActionScript code, Flash comes with a set of components for ...

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