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Using Flex Visual Components

You use visual components to build Adobe Flex applications. Visual components (often referred to as components for brevity) have a flexible set of characteristics that let you control and configure them as necessary to meet your application's requirements. This topic provides an overview of components, component syntax, and component configuration.

Contents

About visual components
Class hierarchy for visual components
Using the UIComponent class
Sizing visual components
Handling events
Using styles
Using behaviors
Applying skins
Changing the appearance of a component at run time
Extending components

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