With the advent of flash components it is now possible to enhance the functionalities of Adobe Flash. It provides the easiest way to turn your simple flash website into a new attractive one with inbuilt extraordinary flash effects, flash menus, slideshows, and navigational systems. It neither requires large flash script knowledge nor does it require vast coding. These flash components should be installed in Adobe authoring environment IDE.

Flash components were released on 9th of September 2003.Smart clip 5 introduced by Flash 5, as an easy way of parameterized animation had limitations that they did not fit programmatically into Action Script’s object-oriented framework .The limitations has been overcome by the invention of flash components. The components integrate the smart clip concept into frameworks making it easier to capture all of the different aspects of the Movie clip into variables. Flash components are proved to be a powerful tool for the Flash developers, here are a few of the most popular:

FlashEff

Once you’ll start using FlashEff, you’ll step into a totally new experience. FlashEff is an easy to use flash component and interactive tool that enables high quality transition effects in Flash. It’s virtually an infinite library of effects that can be used and customized to create professional Flash content. Permanent Internet connection is needed to run the FlashEff 2 Panel (the online configuration panel that loads into your Adobe Flash CS3/4). The component itself  and finally compiled SWF files will be able to run online and offline and will NOT need Internet connection to work. If Internet connection is missing, you will still be able to use the FlashEff 2 Panel’s free license features.

Flash Menu Components

The menu pack containing Accordion Tree Menu V3, Drop Down Tree Menu V3 and over 35 skins, both AS2.0 and AS3.0. It is the time to get this must-have package to fulfil your Flash CS3 component library; it will help you create stunning animated horizontal and vertical menus of all kind in less time than ever. Customize the menu skins in minutes, customize tweening, appear modes and visual styles to create professional looking websites.

XML Slide Show

XML Slide Show is a flash component designed to help you load a sequence of slides (images or animations, from Library or external), in a sliding fashionable way. All these without writing any ActionScript, just write the XML file, drag the component to the stage, set it up and compile. Flash users can now create sliding presentations of movieclips and images within flash and/or using external files also. Those who would use this kind of component to speed up the development process, so included are options for borders, advanced pre-loading managing (with possibility to load all slides at the beginning or load them as you go, with adjacent priority).

This component can be used in many ways, from showing many slides at one time, to one single slide per time, XML Slide Show is simply the best slide show flash component. A slide is a movieclip, image, or external file, it may be another swf file that appears in a sliding way, or it may be a simple image, a simple swf containing a text ad, or it can be a menu item too. Implemented methods allow the flash users to easy slide from code to a new slide, next, previous or any other slide.