How to Add Components in Adobe Flash CS4
Components allow you to make your Adobe Flash CS4 animations a bit more interactive. They consist of prebuilt movie clips that perform some task when a user does something with it. Here is how you add a component to your Adobe Flash CS4 animation.
- Launch Adobe Flash CS4 and select New ActionScript 3.0 file. If you have an existing animation that you wish to add components to, you can load up that also.
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Step 2
From the main menu at the top select “Window” then from the submenu select “Components”. You can also use the shortcut key combination “CTRL+F7″. The components panel is shown in the picture associated with this step.
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Step 3
The components panel will appear. There are two separate categories of components to choose from. One is for user interface and the other is for video. To add a component simply click on your component of choice and while holding the mouse button down, drag the component onto the stage.
