Installing components

A set of Macromedia components is already installed when you launch Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 for the first time. You can view them in the Components panel.

Flash MX 2004 includes the following components:

• Button component
• CheckBox component
• ComboBox component
• Label component
• List component
• Loader component
• NumericStepper component
• PopUpManager class
• ProgressBar component
• RadioButton component
• ScrollPane component
• TextArea component
• TextInput component
• Window component

Flash MX Professional 2004 includes the Flash MX 2004 components and the following additional components and classes:

• Accordion component
• Alert component
• DataBinding package
• DateField component
• DataGrid component
• DataHolder component
• DataSet component
• DateChooser component
• Form class
• MediaController component
• MediaDisplay component
• MediaPlayback component
• Menu component
• RDBMSResolver component
• Screen class
• Tree component
• WebServiceConnector component
• XMLConnector component
• XUpdateResolver component

To verify installation of the Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 components:

You can also download components from the Macromedia Exchange. To install components downloaded from the Exchange, download and install the Macromedia Extension Manager.

Any component, whether it's a SWC file or a FLA file (see About compiled clips and SWC files), can appear in the Components panel in Flash. Follow these steps to install components on either a Windows or Macintosh computer.

To install components on a Windows-based or a Macintosh computer: