macromedia has posted chapter 12 of essential actionscript 2.0 in tandem with the official release of the book today. chapter 12 discusses how to use v2 components in an object-oriented actionscript 2.0 application. in particular, it explains the various approaches one can take to handling v2 component events.
>> read eas2 chapter 12, "Using Components with ActionScript 2.0"
>> read eas2 chapter 2, "Object-oriented ActionScript"
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