Chapter TwelveUsing Components
If you use Flash frequently, there may be symbols that you’ve found yourself using over and over—a button, for example. There’s no point in recreating the symbol and its accompanying ActionScript if you can reuse a symbol and script that you’ve already made.
Flash takes that principle a step further: It provides ready-made, prescripted symbols, called components, that you can use in any movie. You can find them in the Components panel (Window > Components).
The ActionScript inside these components is thorough and robust, so you can depend on them to work properly in every situation. In addition, because the ActionScript has been compiled (see #83), the scripts run much faster and make fewer demands ...
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