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Chapter 9. Building and Using UI ComponentsBefore components, Flash developers had to build scroll bars, combo boxes, and so on from scratch, which often became complex and tedious . However, components were first introduced to the Flash community in Macromedia Flash MX and quickly became ubiquitous in Flash applications. Components have fundamentally changed user interface (UI) design in Flash MX 2004. At their most basic level, Flash UI components speed up the development process by making life easier for Flash developers; they are the building blocks for applications. Components in Flash can be divided into three different areas:
We are going to focus on building and using UI components in this chapter. The data components are covered in Chapter 12, "XML and Flash," Chapter 13, "Web Services," and Chapter 14, "Using Client-Side Data Integration." |
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