Adding components

When you drag a component from the Components panel to the Stage, a compiled clip symbol is added to the Library panel. Once a compiled clip symbol is in the library, you can also add that component to a document/ at runtime by using the UIObject.createClassObject() ActionScript method.

• Beginning Flash users can use the Components panel to add components to Flash documents, specify basic parameters using the Property inspector or the Component Parameters panel, and use the on() event handler to control components.
• Intermediate Flash users can use the Components panel to add components to Flash documents and then use the Property inspector, ActionScript methods, or a combination of the two to specify parameters. They can use the on() event handler, or event listeners to handle component events.
• Advanced Flash programmers can use a combination of the Components panel and ActionScript to add components and specify properties, or choose to implement component instances at runtime using only ActionScript. They can use event listeners to control components.

If you edit the skins of a component and then add another version of the component, or a component that shares the same skins, you can choose to use the edited skins or replace the edited skins with a new set of default skins. If you replace the edited skins, all components using those skins are updated with default versions of the skins. For more information on how to edit skins, see Customizing Components.