Working with components overview

There are various ways to work with components in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. You use the Components panel to view components and add them to a document during authoring. Once a component has been added to a document, you can view its properties in the Property inspector or in the Component Inspector panel. Components can communicate with other components by listening to their events and handling them with ActionScript. You can also manage the component depth in a document and control when a component receives focus.