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8 Chapter 1: Getting Started
Publish profiles
You can create profiles to save your publish settings, then export the profiles
and use them across projects to publish consistently under different conditions. For more
information, see “Creating a publish profile” in
Using Flash .
Accessibility and components New accessibility features and a new generation of components
offer tab ordering, tab focus management, and improved support for third-party screen readers
and closed-caption programs.
Globalization and Unicode
Enhanced globalization and Unicode support allows multilanguage
authoring using any character set. For more information, see “Creating Multilanguage Text” in
Using Flash .
Strings panel The new Strings panel makes it easier to publish Flash content in multiple
languages. With the click of a few buttons, Flash creates external XML files for each specified
language. For more information, see “Creating Multilanguage Text” in
Using Flash. You may need
to update your Help system to see this information.
Security Flash Player 7 enforces a stricter security model than previous versions of Flash Player.
Exact domain matching requires that the domain of the data to be accessed match the data
provider’s domain
exactly in order for the domains to communicate. HTTPS/HTTP restriction
specifies that a SWF file using nonsecure (non-HTTPS) protocols cannot access content loaded
using a secure (HTTPS) protocol, even when both are in exactly the same domain. For more
information see “Flash Player security features” in
Using ActionScript in Flash .
Other improvements
Flash Player performance has been greatly improved, and ActionScript has been enhanced to
comply with ECMA script language specifications. Also, Flash now tracks interactions so that
they can be converted to reusable commands.
Flash Player runtime performance Player runtime performance has been improved by a factor
of two to five times for video, scripting, and general display rendering.
ActionScript 2.0
ActionScript 2.0 is an object-oriented language that follows the ECMA script
language specification and supports inheritance, strong typing, and the event model. For more
information, see “ECMA-262 compliance” in
Using ActionScript in Flash . You may need to
update your Help system to see this information.
History panel
The History panel tracks your actions so that they can be converted to reusable
commands. For more information, see “Using the History panel” in Using Flash .
New features available in Flash MX Professional 2004 only
Flash MX Professional 2004 offers all the features available in Flash MX 2004, plus a variety of
new features to enhance application development and design. Features include the screen-based
visual development environment, and tools for managing data interactively and for fostering
team productivity.