For what are components usefully?
Components make your life easier 
, because you can use many of them with Swishmax. Swishmax is a complete Flash™ animation authoring application. Create stunning and powerful Flash™ animations without using Adobe Flash™.
Swishmax 2 include: Preloader, Textscroller, Contentscroller, loaderbars, graph, menu, 3DSlider and much more…
Further you can use commercial components. They push you up on the next level of webdesign with Swishmax 2 – see below on this post. Or can you develope a 3D Cube in 5 minutes?
What are components and how are using this?
Components are normally Swishmax 2 files and can use with Swishmax 2 and Swishminimax. Components are automaticly detected from Swishmax on Startprocess and then present in the component folder.Only what you have to do is drag the component for using in your movie. Then edit the parameter (the most are dropdowns) and ready! Never before are easier to put in a preloader in your movie!
Check out the video to see how easy it is , to develope a DropDown menu: 
Example
Commercial Components
Push you up to next level of webdesign! Amazing effects without scripting!
3D Cube with Video Movies see here
Videos:
Download Probeversion Swishmax 3
