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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
What’s new in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 1: Working with Flash Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Creating or opening a document and setting properties . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using document tabs for multiple documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saving Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
About adding media content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
About creating motion and interactivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
About components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Managing media assets with the library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
About ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
About Multiple Timelines and levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
About nested movie clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Using absolute and relative target paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
About scenes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Working with scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the Movie Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using Find and Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the Undo, Redo, and Repeat menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using the History panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Saving documents when you undo steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Automating tasks with the Commands menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Creating custom keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
About customizing context menus in Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . 62
About the links menu in Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Speeding up document display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Optimizing Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Testing document download performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Printing from the Flash authoring tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Summary of Contents for FLASH 8-FLASH
Page 1: ...Using Flash ...
Page 12: ...12 Contents ...
Page 110: ...110 Using Symbols Instances and Library Assets ...
Page 128: ...128 Working with Color Strokes and Fills ...
Page 156: ...156 Drawing ...
Page 190: ...190 Working with Text ...
Page 224: ...224 Working with Graphic Objects ...
Page 270: ...270 Creating Motion ...
Page 310: ...310 Working with Video ...
Page 362: ...362 Working with Screens Flash Professional Only ...
Page 386: ...386 Creating Multilanguage Text ...
Page 454: ...454 Data Integration Flash Professional Only ...
Page 500: ...500 Publishing ...
Page 534: ...534 Creating Accessible Content ...