How Flash elements work

Flash elements are packaged as SWC files. A SWC file is a compiled component movie clip that is generated by Flash for use by Macromedia and third-party products. Dreamweaver can make these components available to users through the Insert bar, Insert menu, or a toolbar. You create Flash elements using the Flash authoring tool, but Dreamweaver can parse properties of a Flash element and express them through the param tag (a child of the object tag). Users can then edit the param tag attributes to change the properties of the element as it is published (for more information about working with component properties in Dreamweaver, see Using Dreamweaver).