Sams Teach Yourself Adobe

Hour 17. Using Components

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to use data providers to populate list-based components (ComboBox, List, and DataGrid).

• How to use additional user interface components.

• How to integrate multiple components into practical applications.

Last hour you learned the basics of using components. Not only did you learn how to populate them with data (either manually or with ActionScript) but you also saw how to write ActionScript to respond to events such as the user clicking a button. You also learned how to change the components’ visual appearance. In fact you learned the core foundation of using components. In this hour you’ll go beyond that to learn how to use additional components and, more importantly, how to ...