# Add on to using new built components or for building components?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 12, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363 "2003-02-12T03:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![NJusticeForAll2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@NJusticeForAll2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NJusticeForAll2)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363/1 "2003-02-12T03:16:34Z")

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My version of Flash won’t even let me use components created by other people… Is there a plug-in or an add-on that I have to get to use components that didn’t come with Flash? Is there something else I need to get to build my own components? If so… Where can I get it? Is there a homepage I may purshase it from? Where? How much?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363/2 "2003-02-12T03:32:20Z")

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To be able to use components (I don’t use them often, but once I have used I did this and they work) you have to use the Extension Manager that comes with Flash to install the .mxp file.

[http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/em\_download/](http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/em_download/)

And for making your own components. There are all sorts of things for it here…

[http://www.flashcomponents.net/tutorials.cfm?nav=4](http://www.flashcomponents.net/tutorials.cfm?nav=4)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363/3 "2003-02-12T20:23:37Z")

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That was very userful! Thank you…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-on-to-using-new-built-components-or-for-building-components/13363/4 "2003-02-12T20:42:58Z")

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No problem.

Just beware, components aren’t the easiest thing in the world (at least for me they aren’t), they involve A LOT of OOP (object oriented programming) and such.

I wish you luck though.