MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 406

Defining what to bind to
When you expose a component property for binding, you need to define what to bind the
property to. The Bound To dialog box appears when you click Bound To in the Binding
Attributes pane of the Bindings tab. The Bound To dialog box includes the Component Path
pane and the Schema Location pane.
The Component Path pane shows a tree of components that have properties to which you can
bind. The tree is based on the current Stage editing environment:
If the Stage shows the contents of the document root, a single component path tree
appears relative to the document root.
Component instances are displayed only if they exist in Frame 1 of the edited
document root or in Frame 1 of any screen/clip whose instance exists in the edited
document root. This pane shows only components, not text fields.
If the Stage shows the contents of a movie clip being edited from the library, two
component path trees appears. The first appears from the root of the symbol being edited,
and the second appears from the document root, allowing bindings to instances within the
document.
Bindings to this second component tree do not appear in the Bound To instances
when they are selected. They appear only as bindings from the Bound From
component instance.
406 Data Integration (Flash Professional Only)