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USING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL
Managing documents
Open an existing project
1
Select Window
> Other Panels > Project to open the Project panel.
2
Select Open Project from the Project pop-up menu in the Project panel.
3
Using the Browse For Folder dialog box, navigate into the folder containing the project and click OK.
Note:
You cannot open Dreamweaver projects in the Flash Project panel.
Close a project
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Select Close Project from the Options pop-up menu.
Delete a project
1
Open the Project you want to delete.
2
From the Options pop-up menu select Delete Project.
3
Select how to delete the project:
•
Delete the currently active project from the Project Panel.
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Delete the currently active project from the Project Panel and all of the files stored in the project directory. This
deletes all of the selected files from the file system.
Flash removes the selected project from the Project panel.
Convert previous projects to the new project format
In previous versions of Flash, projects used an XML file with the filename extension .flp—for example, myProject.flp.
To use projects created in previous versions of Flash, you must convert the old project to the new format.
1
Select Window
> Other Panels > Project to open the Project panel.
2
Select Open Project from the Project pop-up menu in the Project panel.
3
Using the Browse For Folder dialog box, navigate to the folder containing the FLP file, and click OK, specifying that
folder as the converted project’s root folder.
The contents of the specified folder will be displayed in the Project panel.
Add a new file or folder to a project
The Project panel allows you to open, create, and remove files and folders.
The Project panel filters files by filename extension. However, you can manually hide files by preceding the filename
with a special character, such as an underscore. To enable this feature, enter the special characters to filter in the “Hide
files or folders beginning with” section of the Panel Preferences (Options > Panel Preferences).
By default, the Project panel only shows Flash document types (FLA, SWF, SWC, AS, JSFL, ASC, MXML, TXT, XML),
but you can add custom types in the Settings tab of the Panel Preferences (Options > Panel Preferences).
The Project panel shows all files opened recently in the panel in the Recent Files folder at the top of the project tree.
Recent Files are sorted in the order they were opened. Only files opened with the Project panel appear in this list. To
disable/enable the recent files folder, toggle the Show Recent Files checkbox in the Settings Tab of the Panel
Preferences. You can also specify how many files are shown in the list.
Updated 5 March 2009
