FL_Getting_Started.pdf

Getting Started with Flash

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Acknowledgments

Director: Erick Vera

Project Management: Stephanie Gowin, Barbara Nelson

Writing: Jody Bleyle, Mary Burger, Kim Diezel, Stephanie Gowin, Dan Harris, Barbara Herbert, Barbara Nelson, Shirley Ong,

Tim Statler

Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato

Editing: Mary Ferguson, Mary Kraemer, Noreen Maher, Antonio Padial, Lisa Stanziano, Anne Szabla

Production Management: Patrice O’Neill

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Christopher Basmajian, Aaron Begley, John Francis, Jeff Harmon

First Edition: September 2003

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About the Flash Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What’s new in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Guide to instructional media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Start page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

CHAPTER 2: Installing Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing and activating Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Changing or removing Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Configuring a server for the Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

CHAPTER 3: Getting to Know the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using frames and keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

About the main toolbar and edit bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the grid, guides, and rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using panels and the Property inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Setting preferences in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Customizing keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Accessibility in the Flash authoring environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

CHAPTER 4: Building Your First Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Workflow for building an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Examine a completed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Open the authoring document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Create a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Add media content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Add navigation controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Add motion and basic interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Test the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Publish and view the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

The next steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Contents

CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

Welcome to Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. Flash

provides everything you need to create and deliver rich web content and powerful applications.

Whether you’re designing motion graphics or building data-driven applications, Flash has the

tools necessary to produce great results and deliver the best user experience across multiple

platforms and devices.

This guide is designed to introduce you to Flash. The tutorial in this guide leads you through the

process of creating a simple Flash application.

About Flash

Flash is an authoring tool that allows you to create anything from a simple animation to a

complex interactive web application, such as an online store. You can make your Flash

applications media rich by adding pictures, sound, and video. Flash includes many features that

make it powerful but easy to use, such as drag-and-drop user interface components, built-in

behaviors that add ActionScript to your document, and special effects that you can add to objects.

When you author in Flash you work in a Flash document, a file that, when saved, has the file

extension .fla. When you are ready to deploy your Flash content, you publish it, creating a file

with the extension .swf. The Flash Player, described in the next section, runs the SWF file.

About the Flash Player

Macromedia Flash Player 7, which runs the applications that you create, installs by default along

with Flash. The 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. The Flash Player is distributed freely

to anyone who wants to use it. You can get the latest version of the Flash Player at

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