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J. Scott Hamlin is author and co--author of several books, including Flash 5 Magic: with ActionScript, Flash 4 Magic, and Photoshop Web Techniques. His clients include Nabisco, Procter & Gamble, Sun, Nokia, and Nickelodeon.

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Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and SophisticatedFunctionality

You don t have to be a programmer to achieveamazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromediaand various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of FlashComponents shows you how and the enclosed CD provides a library ofpowerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in yourown projects.

For those of you with just a little programmingexperience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to useand share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of yourexperience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be withinyour reach. Coverage includes:

• Determining the mosteffective ways to leverage components
• Avoiding componentpitfalls
• Customizing external resources for use with components
• Buildingyour own components
• Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for acomponent
• Customizing component artwork
• Using components to build games
• Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips
• Troubleshooting component construction and application
• Using multiple components to create more complex effects