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CHAPTER 8
Basic Tasks: Use Layout
Tools
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 offer a
variety of ways to place objects on the Stage. This tutorial teaches you how
to use the layout tools in Flash to create a user interface.
You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the
Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/
fl_documentation.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Use guides to align an object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Change the Stage size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Resize objects to match the Stage size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Specify snap alignment settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Align an object using the alignment guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Align objects using the Align panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Snap objects to each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Align objects using the Property inspector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Align objects using the grid and arrow keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Although this lesson uses specific tools for particular types of objects
(alignment guides to align text, for example), no strict rules exist about the
best way to align a particular type of object. In your own projects, use
whatever tools suit your needs.
- Flash Tutorials 1
- Contents 3
- 4Contents 4
- Contents 5 5
- 6Contents 6
- Contents 7 7
- 8Contents 8
- Contents 9 9
- 10 Contents 10
- Introduction 11
- 12 Introduction 12
- Basic Tasks: Create a 13
- Document 13
- FLA files for your reference 14
- Undo changes 16
- View the Timeline 16
- Change background and Stage 17
- Change your view of the Stage 18
- View the Library panel 18
- Add graphics to the Stage 19
- Add video 19
- View object properties 20
- Add video control behaviors 20
- Test the document 23
- Find help 23
- ■ View object properties 24
- ■ Add video control behaviors 24
- ■ Find help 24
- Basic Tasks: Creating a 25
- Open the finished FLA file 27
- Creating a new document 29
- Changing document properties 30
- Importing graphics 33
- Importing graphics 35 35
- Introducing layers and the 36
- Creating a new layer 38
- Importing to a layer 39
- Summary 41 41
- Adding text 46
- Adding text 47 47
- Creating a symbol 49
- Creating a button 56
- Creating a button 57 57
- Writing simple actions 59
- ■ Create text 62
- ■ Create symbols 62
- ■ Create an animation 62
- ■ Create buttons 62
- ■ Write ActionScript 62
- Open the finished project 65
- Review the completed project 66
- Close the completed project 66
- Considering your audience 67
- Inserting Flash on a 71
- Dreamweaver site 71
- Using roundtrip editing 73
- Checking for Flash Player 74
- Checking for Flash Player 75 75
- Summary 77 77
- Flash Content 79
- Provide a document title and 81
- Specify that screen readers 83
- Index text box 85
- About testing your document 87
- Basic Tasks: Work with 89
- Select a layer 91
- Hide and show layers 92
- Lock a layer 92
- Add and name a layer 93
- Change the order of layers 93
- Organize layers in a folder 94
- Add a mask layer 94
- Add a guide layer 95
- Delete a layer 96
- Basic Tasks: Create an 97
- Application 97
- Copy input and dynamic text 99
- Name text fields 99
- Add and name a Button 100
- Write a function 103
- Test your application 105
- Basic Tasks: Use Layout 107
- Set up your workspace 108
- Use guides to align an object 108
- Change the Stage size 109
- Resize objects to match the 110
- Stage size 110
- Align an object using the 111
- Snap objects to each other 113
- Summary 115 115
- Basic Tasks: Create 117
- Symbols and Instances 117
- About creating symbols 118
- Create a graphic symbol 119
- Modify a symbol 121
- Create a movie clip symbol 122
- Summary 123 123
- Basic Tasks: Add Button 125
- Animation and Navigation 125
- Create a button from grouped 127
- Name a button instance 127
- Align buttons 129
- Add an action to a button 131
- Add navigation to a button 132
- Test the SWF file 133
- CHAPTER 11 135
- View screen properties 138
- Add and name a slide 141
- Select and move slides 141
- Add content to a new slide 142
- Add transition behaviors 142
- Test your presentation 143
- Creating Graphics: Draw 145
- Select a shape tool 146
- Select options to create a 147
- Draw a polygon 147
- Rotate the shape 148
- Use the cutout feature 148
- Transform the shape of your 149
- Copy strokes 149
- Draw with the Line tool 150
- Group the shape 151
- Creating Graphics: Create a 153
- Timeline Animation 153
- Create a motion tween 155
- Create a shape tween 156
- Change the speed of the 158
- Creating Graphics: Making 161
- Animations with Easing 161
- (Flash Professional only) 161
- Open the authoring document 163
- Review the completed FLA file 164
- Open the starter document 165
- Open the starter document 167 167
- Use easing controls 168
- Open the starter document 169 169
- Open the starter document 171 171
- Open the starter document 173 173
- Open the starter document 175 175
- Test the application 176
- Creating Graphics: 177
- Applying Gradients 177
- Apply a linear gradient 181
- Create a radial gradient 183
- Create a radial gradient 185 185
- Apply the finishing touches 187
- (Flash Professional Only) 193
- Review your task 194
- Apply filters and blends 195
- Apply a filter 196
- Apply filters and blends 197 197
- Text: Add Text to a 199
- ■ For Font, select Arial 201
- ■ For Font Size, enter 13 201
- Select device fonts 203
- Add an input text field 203
- Copy a text field 204
- Create a dynamic text field 205
- Specify format options 206
- View ActionScript for the 207
- Check spelling 208
- ActionScript: Use Script 209
- Assist mode 209
- Close the completed FLA file 212
- Script Assist mode 213
- ActionScript: Write 225
- Scripts 225
- Name button instances 228
- Initialize the document 228
- Apply ActionScript syntax 229
- Add comments to ActionScript 230
- Write a function for a button 231
- Copy and modify a button 232
- Check syntax and test your 233
- ActionScript: Add 235
- Interactivity 235
- Add a scene 237
- Move between scenes 238
- Control the document with a 238
- Link a button to a scene 239
- Add navigation to return to 239
- Play a movie clip 240
- Play a movie clip 241 241
- Unload the movie clip 242
- Test your document 243
- ■ Create a new scene 244
- Conditional Logic and Send 245
- Add an error message 248
- Add a confirmation message 249
- Add a stop() action 249
- Submit button 251
- Pass data out of a SWF file 252
- Test your SWF file 253
- ActionScript: Work with 255
- Objects and Classes 255
- Create an object from a class 257
- Modify your script 258
- Create a custom class 259
- Build a custom class 261
- Create two objects from the 262
- Product class 262
- Instance 263
- 11. Test the Shape.fla file 266
- Data Integration: Overview 267
- Data Integration: Using the 269
- Macromedia Tips 269
- Web Service 269
- ComboBox 274
- <products_cb> 274
- Timesheet (Flash 277
- Professional Only) 277
- Create the user interface 278
- Create the user interface 279 279
- Create the user interface 281 281
- Create the user interface 283 283
- Create the user interface 285 285
- Edit the data 286
- Update the Timesheet 287
- Update the timesheet 288
- Update the timesheet 289 289
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