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The initial seven components, which Macromedia includes with every copy of Flash MX, are a good starting point. However, Macromedia, soon after shipping Flash MX, released on the Internet two new component sets which are freely available for download. The first set is known as Flash UI components set two. Flash UI component set two contains calendars, draggable panes and so on. We'll go over each of these individual components in later chapters. And the second set that released was a Flash charting components. Flash charting components includes bar chart, line chart and pi chart. And again we'll look at each of these components in greater detail in the following chapters. Macromedia has since that time also released new developer resource kits which they initially charged $99.00 for. These kits contain additional components which are only available by purchase and not freely downloadable. The first set is Flash UI components set three, which contains quite a few components. First one contains the message box, loading box, prompt box and so on. But it also contains media components such as the F-media controller, symbol sound player, swf file player and streamline so on; and a very powerful component for database applications known as the data grid. The data grid is used for communicating either through Flash remoting or other back end database servers, and we'll also look at the data grid component in greater detail. The final set, which is known as Flash UI component set 4, contains some very powerful new features which will help enable your application to have almost desktop application type performance. Components, such as the rich text editor, now allow you to edit on screen using the fonts installed on the user system and the ability to use bold, underline, italicize, etc all from within this one component. Other items, such as a simple menu, allow you to create a quick pop up menu and the smart Combo box. We'll take a look at set four in this tutorial as well. So the question remains where do you get these free components at least the first two and also where do you purchase the additional resource kits. The place to start is at macromedia.com/desdev, which is for designer developer center. We'll take a look at that now. once you have navigated your way to the designer developer center, the next thing to do is go to the exchanges. We are going to choose the exchange for Macromedia Flash MX. So select Flash from the pop up menu and you'll be taken to the Macromedia exchange for Flash. This covers all versions of Flash; so what I like to do is, rather than browse extensions since there isn't a category specifically for components, I usually go into the advance search and from there I'll put in component, and the author in this case is Macromedia. By putting these two fields in we will see only those components which Macromedia has published on the exchange. Notice in this particular list we see the charting components, which I mentioned earlier, data grid, media components, UI components set two and UI components set three. The important thing to note is that really Flash UI component set two and charting components are the only two which are freely available that you can download. Data grid, media components and set three, as well as set four, are only available for purchase as I'll show you how to do later. But in this case let's take a look at the charting components and how you would install it into your Flash development environment. First, I'll click on the link from the charting components, which takes me to a page for that extension. Note that you can download for the Mac or the PC the charting components extension, however, you do need to have an extension manager already installed. If you don't have an extension manager installed, simply click on the link that is provided here and it will download on to your computer and you'll be ready then to add extensions to Flash MX. In this case since, I'm using Mac OS10, I'll click on the link for Mac, the files then retrieved and you can see it's being downloaded. It automatically launches the extension manager and I present it with the extension manager which is asking me if I am want to accept the license agreement that comes with this component. You can see that the extension is being installed and when it has completed I'll then be able to run Flash again and it will show up in my components panel. Bring up the components and of course, charting components is installed in that location. The process is then repeated for each additional set or component that you want to install. onents is installed in that location. The process is then repeated for each additional set or component that you want to install.