Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired. This can save you an enormous amount of time during application development and help you improve the quality of your code. What's more, the source code is included, so if you can't find the component you need within the component architecture, you can just modify existing components to create your own!

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*Over a million Flash developers worldwide-a huge potential market

*The only book focusing exclusively on ActionScript components

*Compatible with the next version of Flash, to be released later this year

Inhalt
Introducing the Architecture.- OOP in Component Design.- Core Classes and Component Design.- Exploring the UI Components.- Building Component-Based Applications.- Exploiting the Architecture.- Architecture-Based Development.- XML for Defining User Interfaces.- Extending the Application Framework.- Making Your XML Life Easier.- The Customization Process.- Customizing the Components.- The Accordion Component.- The Button Component.- The CheckBox and RadioButton Components.- The List, ComboBox, and DataGrid Components.- The DateChooser and DateField Components.- The Loader, ScrollPane, and ProgressBar Components.- The Menu and MenuBar Components.- The NumericStepper Component.- The TextArea, TextInput, and Label Components.- The Tree Component.- The Window and Alert Components.- Handling the Scrollbars.