ABSTRACT
Working with Components Components are pre-built movie clips that you can include in your projects to add interactivity
and visual effects. Macromedia provides a number of useful components, but you can also create
your own and share them. It is not necessary to use components. They are provided to make your
life easier. Components are movie clips with defined parameters that are set by you. The para-
meters correspond to variables attached to the movie clip, which affects the behavior and appear-
ance of the movie clip. Components provide pre-built user interfaces and scripting for adding
interactivity to Flash movies. With components, you can add interactivity to a Flash movie
without needing to create the ActionScript that controls the interactivity. To use a component
in a movie, you simply add an instance of the component symbol to the movie and select values
for the component parameters.
