MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual page 269

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:
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If the Stage shows the contents of the document root, a single component path tree appears
relative to the document root.
Note: 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.
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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.
Note: 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.
The Schema Location pane shows the schema tree of the component selected in the
Component Path pane. This is the same information that appears in the Schema Tree pane of the
Component inspector Schema tab.
You can use a dynamic value or a constant value for the Bound To property.
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