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6 Chapter 1: Getting Started
About Flash Player
Macromedia Flash Player 7, which runs the applications that you create, installs by default along
with Flash. Flash Player ensures that all SWF content is viewable and available consistently and
across the broadest range of platforms, browsers, and devices.
The Macromedia Flash Player is distributed with products from every major partner, including
Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, AOL, and Opera, to bring rich content and applications
immediately to over 516 million people worldwide. Flash Player is distributed freely to anyone
who wants to use it.
You can get the latest version of Flash Player at the Macromedia Flash Player
Download Center at www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer.
What’s new in Flash
There are now two editions of Flash: Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. To verify
which edition you have installed, select Help > About Flash in the application.
Flash MX 2004
Flash MX 2004 is the perfect tool for the web designer, interactive media
professional, or subject matter expert developing multimedia content. Emphasis is on creation,
import, and manipulation of many types of media (audio, video, bitmaps, vectors, text, and data).
Flash MX Professional 2004 Flash MX Professional 2004 is designed for advanced web
designers and application builders. Flash MX Professional 2004 includes all the features of Flash
MX 2004, along with several powerful new tools. It provides project-management tools for
optimizing the workflow between the members of a web team made up of designers and
developers. External scripting and capabilities for handling dynamic data from databases are some
of the features that make Flash particularly suitable for large-scale, complex projects deployed
using Flash Player along with a hybrid of HTML content.
New features available in both Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX
Professional 2004
The new features in Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 provide greater
productivity, enhanced rich media support, and streamlined publishing.
Productivity
Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 include many features designed specifically for
streamlining previously complex tasks, thereby improving productivity:
Timeline effects
You can apply Timeline effects to any object on the Stage to quickly add
transitions and animations such as fade-ins, fly-ins, blurs, and spins. For more information, see
“Using Timeline effects” in
Using Flash .
Behaviors With behaviors, you can add interactivity to Flash content without writing a line of
code. For example, you can use behaviors to include functionality that links to a website, loads
sounds and graphics, controls playback of embedded videos, plays movie clips, and triggers data
sources. For more information, see “Controlling instances with behaviors” in
Using Flash
.