Benefits Of Using Components - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual

If you've added components, you'll need to refresh the Components panel.
To refresh the contents of the Components panel:
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Select Reload from the Components panel menu.
To remove a component from the Components panel:
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Remove the MXP or FLA file from the Configuration folder.

Benefits of using components

Components enable the separation of coding and design. They also allow you to reuse code,
either in components you create, or by downloading and installing components created by
other developers.
Components allow coders to create functionality that designers can use in applications.
Developers can encapsulate frequently used functionality into components and designers can
customize the look and behavior of components by changing parameters in the Property inspector
or the Component inspector.
Members of the Flash community can use the Macromedia Exchange at
go/exchange to exchange components. By using components, you no longer need to build each
element in a complex web application from scratch. You can find the components you need and
put them together in a Flash document to create a new application.
Components that are based on the version 2 architecture share core functionality such as styles,
event handling, skinning, focus management, and depth management. When you add the first
version 2 component to an application, there is approximately 25K added to the document that
provides this core functionality. When you add additional components, that same 25K is reused
for them as well, resulting in a smaller increase in size to your document than you may expect. For
information about upgrading components, see
architecture" on page
14 Chapter 1: About Components
53.
"Upgrading version 1 components to version 2
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