Flash components overview

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Overview

Components are prebuilt interface elements. This is part of Flash CS3 tutorials.

Learning goals

Learn how to create and use some Flash 9 (CS3) components

Learn a little bit of Action Script 3.0 to run something with a button.

Prerequisites

Flash CS3 desktop tutorial

Flash drawing tutorial

Moving on

The Flash article has a list of other tutorials.

Quality

This text should technical people get going and may not be good enough for self-learning beginners. It can be used as handout in a "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...

Level

It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.

The executive summary - buttons

(to be written)

Results

There is a slideshow with the components button:

• http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/flash/ex/components-intro/