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134 Tutorial: Building Your First Flash Application

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Getting Started with Flash 1
Contents 3
4Contents 4
Introduction 5
6Introduction 6
What you can do with Flash 7
8Introduction 8
Drawing a circle 9
10 Introduction 10
Creating a symbol 11
Animating the circle 12
14 Introduction 14
Publishing the file 15
4. Click OK 16
About Flash Player 17
What’s new in Flash 17
18 Introduction 18
What’s new in Flash 19 19
Installing Flash 20
To install Flash: 21
22 Introduction 22
Installing Flash 23 23
(Internet Explorer or AOL): 24
Netscape, Opera, or Safari): 25
26 Introduction 26
Learning Flash 27
Where to start 28
Where to start 29 29
2. Browse Using Flash 30
Where to start 31 31
32 Learning Flash 32
Get the most from the Flash 33
Accessing the Flash 34
Tutorials and samples 35
ActionScript 36
Components 37
Extending Flash 37
Flash Lite 38
Accessing additional online 39
Flash resources 39
Choosing the right help books 40
Using the Flash help system 42
Opening the Help panel 42
Searching the help system 43
Using context-sensitive help 44
■ Press F1 45
Getting updates to Flash Help 48
Flash Basics 49
About Flash files 50
Getting to know the workspace 51
Using the Stage 52
Using the Timeline 54
Moving the playhead 56
To go to a frame: 57
Using frames and keyframes 58
60 Flash Basics 60
Using layers 61
62 Flash Basics 62
1. Do one of the following: 63
3. Click OK 63
64 Flash Basics 64
To copy a layer: 65
To delete a layer or folder: 65
Using guide layers 66
Using the Tools panel 67
Selecting tools 68
Customizing the Tools panel 68
To customize the Tools panel: 69
Using rulers 70
Using guides 70
To move a guide: 71
To remove a guide: 71
To lock guides: 71
To set guide preferences: 71
Using the grid 72
About the Property inspector 73
About the Library panel 74
About the Actions panel 74
Using panels 75
2. Click an item in the menu 76
Setting preferences in Flash 78
To set preferences: 79
80 Flash Basics 80
To set Drawing preferences: 81
82 Flash Basics 82
84 Flash Basics 84
Using context menus 86
Macintosh 87
Property inspector: 88
90 Flash Basics 90
To select the Stage: 91
92 Flash Basics 92
94 Flash Basics 94
Tutorial: Building Your 95
First Flash Application 95
Run the completed application 97
Create a new document 99
Define document properties 100
6. Save your work 101
Create symbols 102
Create symbols 103 103
To create the third symbol: 105
Edit a symbol Timeline 106
Edit a symbol Timeline 107 107
Add actions to frames 108
Add labels to frames 109
Add motion tweens 110
Add motion tweens 111 111
Edit the main Timeline 112
Create the border 113
Create the border 115 115
Create the border 117 117
■ W: 700 118
■ H: 150 118
Add a text box 120
Add a text box 121 121
Add the second text box 122
Add a button component 124
Add ActionScript code 125
Review the ActionScript code 127
Add ActionScript code 129 129
Publish your document 131
Resources 132
Flash Developers Center 133
On Demand seminars 133
Sample applications 133
Additional resources 134
(Flash Professional only) 135
Review your task 136
Examine the completed 136
Open the authoring document 137
Create a working folder 138
Encode a video file 139
Create a new Flash document 140
Open a new document 141
Add a media component 142
Playback - Player 8 category 143
■ W: 360 144
■ H: 240 144
The next steps 146
148 Index 148
Index 149 149
150 Index 150
Index 151 151
152 Index 152

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