How to Add Components in Adobe Flash CS4

Components allow you to make your Adobe Flash CS4 animations a bit more interactive. They consist of prebuilt movie clips that perform some task when a user does something with it. Here is how you add a component to your Adobe Flash CS4 animation.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Flash CS4

1. Launch Adobe Flash CS4 and select New ActionScript 3.0 file. If you have an existing animation that you wish to add components to, you can load up that also.

2. 

   From the main menu at the top select "Window" then from the submenu select "Components". You can also use the shortcut key combination "CTRL+F7". The components panel is shown in the picture associated with this step.

3. 

   The components panel will appear. There are two separate categories of components to choose from. One is for user interface and the other is for video. To add a component simply click on your component of choice and while holding the mouse button down, drag the component onto the stage.