What's new

The current version (version 2) of the Macromedia Component Architecture is very different from the Macromedia Flash MX version (version 1). Macromedia made changes to improve scalability, performance, and extensibility of components for developers. The following list provides an overview of some of the changes:

• Component Inspector panel that recognizes ActionScript metadata
• Managers and base classes you can extend
• Built-in Live Preview
• Improved compiler messages
• New event model
• Focus management
• CSS-based styles