Flash CS3 Documentation

Using ActionScript 2.0 Components > About Components > Installing components

Installing components

A set of Adobe components is already installed when you start Flash for the first time. You can view them in the Components panel.

Flash includes the following components

• Accordion
• Alert
• Button
• CheckBox
• ComboBox
• DataGrid
• DataHolder
• DataSet
• DateChooser
• DateField
• FLVPlayback
• Label
• List
• Loader
• Media
• Menu
• MenuBar
• NumericStepper
• ProgressBar
• RadioButton
• RDBMSResolver
• ScrollPane
• TextArea
• TextInput
• Tree
• UIScrollBar
• WebServiceConnector
• Window
• XMLConnector
• XUpdateResolver

Flash also includes the DataBinding class. To access the class, select Window > Common Libraries > Classes.

To view the Flash components:

1. Start Flash.
2. Set your publish settings to publish for ActionScript 2.0.

   (Choose File > Publish Settings > Flash tab and select ActionScript 2.0 from the ActionScript dropdown menu.)

3. Select Window > Components to open the Components panel.
4. Select User Interface to expand the tree and view the installed components.

You can also download components from the Adobe Exchange at www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange. To install components downloaded from the Exchange, download and install the Macromedia Extension Manager at www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download/

Any component can appear in the Components panel in Flash. Follow these steps to install components on either a Windows or Macintosh computer.

To install components on a Windows-based or a Macintosh computer:

1. Quit Flash.
2. Place the SWC or FLA file containing the component in the following folder on your hard disk:
   • In Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\ Adobe Flash CS3\language\Configuration\Components
   • On the Macintosh: Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Flash CS3/Configuration/Components (Macintosh)
3. Start Flash.
4. Set your publish settings to publish for ActionScript 2.0.

   (Choose File > Publish Settings, Flash Tab and select ActionScript 2.0 from the ActionScript dropdown menu.)

5. Select Window > Components to view the component in the Components panel if it isn't already open.

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