Components Learning Guide

Building components is a valuable and rewarding skill. Encapsulating solutions and sharing them with others allows communities of developers to problem-solve together. By learning and extending the v2 component framework, developers work more efficiently together and write less code.

There are many features in the v2 architecture to dive into. Code is structured in a more organized and standardized fashion. Styles and events are more standards-compliant than before. Certain patterns and idioms appear more frequently, such as invalidation-draw loops or getter/setter properties. Inheritance patterns in ActionScript 2.0 are much easier to digest. Special manager classes help with standard issues like accessibility, focus, and z-depths.

The following resources are a primer for working in the world of component code. Besides a higher level exploration of the architecture, we provide an in-depth tutorial that guides you through a first sample component.