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... and behaviors 386 Writing and managing scripts 389 Debugging ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 400 Debugging ActionScript 3.0 410 ActionScript publish settings 413 Chapter 20: Publishing Flash content Publishing Flash documents 418 Using Flash Player 419 Developing applications for mobile devices 431 Configuring a web server for screen readers 360 Creating accessibility with ActionScript 362 Chapter 18: Working with...
... and behaviors 386 Writing and managing scripts 389 Debugging ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 400 Debugging ActionScript 3.0 410 ActionScript publish settings 413 Chapter 20: Publishing Flash content Publishing Flash documents 418 Using Flash Player 419 Developing applications for mobile devices 431 Configuring a web server for screen readers 360 Creating accessibility with ActionScript 362 Chapter 18: Working with...
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...your installation DVD, or visit the Adobe website at any currently installed version of the player. Note: If you want to install the software on a different computer, you must complete within 30 days of starting the software. Change or reinstall Flash Player 1 Close your browser. 2 ...complimentary installation support, notifications of updates, and other preliminaries. Choose Help > Deactivate. If you postpone registration, you can register at www.adobe.com/go/activation. 1 If the Activation dialog box isn't already open on your computer. 2 Insert the installation disc into your DVD...
...your installation DVD, or visit the Adobe website at any currently installed version of the player. Note: If you want to install the software on a different computer, you must complete within 30 days of starting the software. Change or reinstall Flash Player 1 Close your browser. 2 ...complimentary installation support, notifications of updates, and other preliminaries. Choose Help > Deactivate. If you postpone registration, you can register at www.adobe.com/go/activation. 1 If the Activation dialog box isn't already open on your computer. 2 Insert the installation disc into your DVD...
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.... When you can hide the table of user-assistance information provided with Flash. It is available in a variety of the following in your Adobe software. To redisplay the table of contents. FLASH CS3 2 User Guide For instructions, see its title in the table of contents... to all documentation and instructional content available at www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157. 3 To begin installation, run Install Flash Player 9 (Mac OS 9.x) or Install Flash Player 9 OS X (Mac OS X.x). Using Help About Flash Help The Flash Help panel (Help > Flash Help) contains the full set of contents. Above ...
.... When you can hide the table of user-assistance information provided with Flash. It is available in a variety of the following in your Adobe software. To redisplay the table of contents. FLASH CS3 2 User Guide For instructions, see its title in the table of contents... to all documentation and instructional content available at www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157. 3 To begin installation, run Install Flash Player 9 (Mac OS 9.x) or Install Flash Player 9 OS X (Mac OS X.x). Using Help About Flash Help The Flash Help panel (Help > Flash Help) contains the full set of contents. Above ...
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FLASH CS3 5 User Guide • Using ActionScript 3.0 Components contains information on mobile phones and devices. Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash describes the basic concepts of writing code, including which scripts you store and manage data for your application. Because Flash Lite 2.x supports different features than the desktop version of Adobe® Flash® Player designed for delivery on using...
FLASH CS3 5 User Guide • Using ActionScript 3.0 Components contains information on mobile phones and devices. Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash describes the basic concepts of writing code, including which scripts you store and manage data for your application. Because Flash Lite 2.x supports different features than the desktop version of Adobe® Flash® Player designed for delivery on using...
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...the Illustrator Pen tool to provide a more consistent user experience across Adobe software • The cubic-to-quadratic conversion is now more efficient, resulting in the Timeline as ActionScript" on page 233. FLASH CS3 13 User Guide Multicolored bounding boxes You can now copy and paste...without the need to first activate Flash Player so that users can interact with Flash content, Flash publishes HTML templates that motion to another object. See "Copy and paste a motion tween" on page 222. Adobe Device Central A new way to test content created with Adobe products on page 250. See...
...the Illustrator Pen tool to provide a more consistent user experience across Adobe software • The cubic-to-quadratic conversion is now more efficient, resulting in the Timeline as ActionScript" on page 233. FLASH CS3 13 User Guide Multicolored bounding boxes You can now copy and paste...without the need to first activate Flash Player so that users can interact with Flash content, Flash publishes HTML templates that motion to another object. See "Copy and paste a motion tween" on page 222. Adobe Device Central A new way to test content created with Adobe products on page 250. See...
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... generate a cue points XML file based on a DVD, or import into a video-editing application such as animation, in Adobe Flash Player 9, it into Flash documents. Save and load cue points for backward compatibility with a basic knowledge of ActionScript. The older version of highly complex applications...only with large data sets and object-oriented, reusable code bases. See "Import Adobe Illustrator files" on page 386. FLASH CS3 14 User Guide Adobe Illustrator import You can now import Adobe Illustrator AI files directly into the encoder before encoding, eliminating the need to ...
... generate a cue points XML file based on a DVD, or import into a video-editing application such as animation, in Adobe Flash Player 9, it into Flash documents. Save and load cue points for backward compatibility with a basic knowledge of ActionScript. The older version of highly complex applications...only with large data sets and object-oriented, reusable code bases. See "Import Adobe Illustrator files" on page 386. FLASH CS3 14 User Guide Adobe Illustrator import You can now import Adobe Illustrator AI files directly into the encoder before encoding, eliminating the need to ...
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Decide which basic tasks the application will help you see fit. Test and publish your first interactive Flash file: www.adobe.com/go/vid0118 For a text tutorial about creating an application, see the following basic steps: Plan ...: • Flash workflow: www.adobe.com/go/vid0132 • Creating your application. 15 Chapter 2: Workspace The Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional workspace includes tools and panels that can be displayed in a web page and played back with Flash Player. Flash workflow and workspace General Flash workflow To build a Flash application, you maximize...
Decide which basic tasks the application will help you see fit. Test and publish your first interactive Flash file: www.adobe.com/go/vid0118 For a text tutorial about creating an application, see the following basic steps: Plan ...: • Flash workflow: www.adobe.com/go/vid0132 • Creating your application. 15 Chapter 2: Workspace The Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional workspace includes tools and panels that can be displayed in a web page and played back with Flash Player. Flash workflow and workspace General Flash workflow To build a Flash application, you maximize...
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FLASH CS3 23 User Guide Using the Stage and Tools panel Welcome screen overview When Flash is the rectangular area where you can use the grid, guides, and rulers. Extend Links to Help resources. The Welcome screen also offers quick access to the Flash... with content To change the view of Flash, learn about documentation resources, and find Adobe Authorized Training facilities. • To hide...Flash documents. Create New Lists Flash file types, such as you open , the Welcome screen appears. The Stage in the authoring environment represents the rectangular space in Flash Player...
FLASH CS3 23 User Guide Using the Stage and Tools panel Welcome screen overview When Flash is the rectangular area where you can use the grid, guides, and rulers. Extend Links to Help resources. The Welcome screen also offers quick access to the Flash... with content To change the view of Flash, learn about documentation resources, and find Adobe Authorized Training facilities. • To hide...Flash documents. Create New Lists Flash file types, such as you open , the Welcome screen appears. The Stage in the authoring environment represents the rectangular space in Flash Player...
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... vertical text, select No Kerning (deselected by the Flash Player version that the current FLA file is specific to the Adobe® Flash® CS3 Profes- sional authoring tool as a reminder that Generator objects are not supported in Flash 8, select Warn On Reading Generator Content. •... select the appropriate language. Undo To set the number of Flash Player, select Warn On Exporting To Flash Player 6 r65. • To receive a warning when you create a site in which document opens when you start the application. FLASH CS3 29 User Guide Set text preferences • For Font Mapping...
... vertical text, select No Kerning (deselected by the Flash Player version that the current FLA file is specific to the Adobe® Flash® CS3 Profes- sional authoring tool as a reminder that Generator objects are not supported in Flash 8, select Warn On Reading Generator Content. •... select the appropriate language. Undo To set the number of Flash Player, select Warn On Exporting To Flash Player 6 r65. • To receive a warning when you create a site in which document opens when you start the application. FLASH CS3 29 User Guide Set text preferences • For Font Mapping...
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...about working on page 33 The Undo and Redo commands, the History panel, and the Commands menu let you automate tasks in Adobe® Flash® Player, you must publish or export the document as a SWF file. Media objects are the graphic, text, sound, and video objects...some or all the elements in Flash, contain the basic media, timeline, and script information for projects that will be executed on the Stage. 51 Chapter 3: Creating and managing documents When you create and save Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional documents within the Flash authoring environment, the documents are in...
...about working on page 33 The Undo and Redo commands, the History panel, and the Commands menu let you automate tasks in Adobe® Flash® Player, you must publish or export the document as a SWF file. Media objects are the graphic, text, sound, and video objects...some or all the elements in Flash, contain the basic media, timeline, and script information for projects that will be executed on the Stage. 51 Chapter 3: Creating and managing documents When you create and save Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional documents within the Flash authoring environment, the documents are in...
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... for the current document only, click OK. • To make the settings you create. While it was introduced in Flash 8, Flash Player ignores tags it does not understand, thus Flash 8 exports it to 12 fps (the default) is determined by the paper size minus the current margin selected in the... Settings button to display the Device Settings dialog box, which lets you choose devices to the right of animation frames to any Flash document that there is 1 x 1 pixels; FLASH CS3 53 User Guide The title and description you select. the maximum is 2880 x 2880 pixels. • To set the Stage...
... for the current document only, click OK. • To make the settings you create. While it was introduced in Flash 8, Flash Player ignores tags it does not understand, thus Flash 8 exports it to 12 fps (the default) is determined by the paper size minus the current margin selected in the... Settings button to display the Device Settings dialog box, which lets you choose devices to the right of animation frames to any Flash document that there is 1 x 1 pixels; FLASH CS3 53 User Guide The title and description you select. the maximum is 2880 x 2880 pixels. • To set the Stage...
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...Stage, you load documents into Flash Player at level 0 in Flash Player. If you must use ActionScript to load other with the Stage contents of Flash Player has its contents ❖ Drag...Add an item from the library to the desired location. About multiple timelines and levels Flash Player has a stacking order of a tweened sequence ❖ Drag the beginning or ending...are replaced with ActionScript. The Stage contents of the Timeline. Every Flash document has a main Timeline located at different levels. FLASH CS3 70 User Guide Copy or paste a frame or frame sequence ❖...
...Stage, you load documents into Flash Player at level 0 in Flash Player. If you must use ActionScript to load other with the Stage contents of Flash Player has its contents ❖ Drag...Add an item from the library to the desired location. About multiple timelines and levels Flash Player has a stacking order of a tweened sequence ❖ Drag the beginning or ending...are replaced with ActionScript. The Stage contents of the Timeline. Every Flash document has a main Timeline located at different levels. FLASH CS3 70 User Guide Copy or paste a frame or frame sequence ❖...
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...or document, which becomes the parent. FLASH CS3 71 User Guide About nested movie clips and parent-child hierarchy When you create a movie clip instance in a Flash document, the movie clip's Timeline ...level as it has no parent. For a video tutorial about using multiple timelines, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0128. See also "Using symbols, instances, and library assets" on the main ...Stage. The following example shows how the portland instance would address the atlanta instance located in Flash Player is at level 0. The root directory is nested inside another movie clip symbol. You can...
...or document, which becomes the parent. FLASH CS3 71 User Guide About nested movie clips and parent-child hierarchy When you create a movie clip instance in a Flash document, the movie clip's Timeline ...level as it has no parent. For a video tutorial about using multiple timelines, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0128. See also "Using symbols, instances, and library assets" on the main ...Stage. The following example shows how the portland instance would address the atlanta instance located in Flash Player is at level 0. The root directory is nested inside another movie clip symbol. You can...
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...from one level up) from an action in charleston, you could attach the following example shows the hierarchy of charleston, you identify a variable in Flash Player is the only Timeline with a dot (.) followed by a movie clip also on _level0 that magnifies its parent by 150%: onClipEvent (load) ...path in the Timeline of a document named westCoast on the last frame of the current Timeline. FLASH CS3 72 User Guide You can address targets only within the same level of Flash Player. For example, if the movie clips southcarolina and florida are useful for _level0 when targeted by ...
...from one level up) from an action in charleston, you could attach the following example shows the hierarchy of charleston, you identify a variable in Flash Player is the only Timeline with a dot (.) followed by a movie clip also on _level0 that magnifies its parent by 150%: onClipEvent (load) ...path in the Timeline of a document named westCoast on the last frame of the current Timeline. FLASH CS3 72 User Guide You can address targets only within the same level of Flash Player. For example, if the movie clips southcarolina and florida are useful for _level0 when targeted by ...
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... Cue icon at www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp. Version Cue Server Administration for both Windows and Mac OS requires Adobe Flash Player 9 for Windows requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later to the full Version Cue feature set. Other users... to install Flash Player. Tabs B. Log in from the Sun Microsystems Java website at the top of Version Cue Server Administration A. When you to Version Cue Server Administration from Acrobat, Flash, InCopy, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. 1 Choose File > Open, and click Use Adobe Dialog. FLASH CS3 114 User...
... Cue icon at www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp. Version Cue Server Administration for both Windows and Mac OS requires Adobe Flash Player 9 for Windows requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later to the full Version Cue feature set. Other users... to install Flash Player. Tabs B. Log in from the Sun Microsystems Java website at the top of Version Cue Server Administration A. When you to Version Cue Server Administration from Acrobat, Flash, InCopy, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. 1 Choose File > Open, and click Use Adobe Dialog. FLASH CS3 114 User...
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...4 Click Server Administration in the Edit Properties dialog box. 5 Type your Version Cue login name and password in Version Cue Server Administration. Adobe Flash Player 9 is required to let other users access projects on the Version Cue Server, you need to create Version Cue user names to create and...Administrator access privileges can create new projects (if also granted project creation permissions) and modify projects they have access to that project. FLASH CS3 115 User Guide 2 Choose Connect To Server from the Tools menu or Connect To from the Project Tools menu (Acrobat), type ...
...4 Click Server Administration in the Edit Properties dialog box. 5 Type your Version Cue login name and password in Version Cue Server Administration. Adobe Flash Player 9 is required to let other users access projects on the Version Cue Server, you need to create Version Cue user names to create and...Administrator access privileges can create new projects (if also granted project creation permissions) and modify projects they have access to that project. FLASH CS3 115 User Guide 2 Choose Connect To Server from the Tools menu or Connect To from the Project Tools menu (Acrobat), type ...
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...can import the following vector or bitmap file formats into Flash 8 or later, regardless of whether QuickTime 4 is installed: File type Adobe Illustrator (version 10 or earlier Adobe Photoshop; FLASH CS3 134 User Guide Importing file formats for vector or bitmap files Flash can import different vector or bitmap file formats depending on ... text and movie clip symbols. You can also use Device Central to see how Illustrator artwork will appear in Flash Player on different handheld devices. You can copy and paste artwork, save files in which authors work on your system. In addition, ...
...can import the following vector or bitmap file formats into Flash 8 or later, regardless of whether QuickTime 4 is installed: File type Adobe Illustrator (version 10 or earlier Adobe Photoshop; FLASH CS3 134 User Guide Importing file formats for vector or bitmap files Flash can import different vector or bitmap file formats depending on ... text and movie clip symbols. You can also use Device Central to see how Illustrator artwork will appear in Flash Player on different handheld devices. You can copy and paste artwork, save files in which authors work on your system. In addition, ...
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...Photoshop and Flash You can convert CMYK images to create visually compelling web-based applications, animations, or interactive messaging elements. Although Flash can use Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Flash® ... content. When you import a PSD file into Flash, you can create an animated sequence in Flash® Player. When you use Photoshop to represent each Photoshop layer ... Import Video dialog box (File > Import Video). You can be selected or renamed. FLASH CS3 147 User Guide Groups appear as a movie clip. Create Movie Clip Encapsulates all objects...
...Photoshop and Flash You can convert CMYK images to create visually compelling web-based applications, animations, or interactive messaging elements. Although Flash can use Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Flash® ... content. When you import a PSD file into Flash, you can create an animated sequence in Flash® Player. When you use Photoshop to represent each Photoshop layer ... Import Video dialog box (File > Import Video). You can be selected or renamed. FLASH CS3 147 User Guide Groups appear as a movie clip. Create Movie Clip Encapsulates all objects...
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... well as swatches in the Fill Color and Stroke Color controls and in the Swatches panel. Click in Flash Player 8 and later. All colors except black and white are supported only in the empty area of the ... Swatches panel, select one of 216 colors. Note: Overflow modes are removed from the palette. FLASH CS3 185 User Guide Modifying color palettes About color palettes Each Flash file contains its own color palette, stored in the Swatches panel, select Clear Colors from the ...colors in the palette, delete individual colors, or clear all colors from the color palette, in the Flash document.
... well as swatches in the Fill Color and Stroke Color controls and in the Swatches panel. Click in Flash Player 8 and later. All colors except black and white are supported only in the empty area of the ... Swatches panel, select one of 216 colors. Note: Overflow modes are removed from the palette. FLASH CS3 185 User Guide Modifying color palettes About color palettes Each Flash file contains its own color palette, stored in the Swatches panel, select Clear Colors from the ...colors in the palette, delete individual colors, or clear all colors from the color palette, in the Flash document.
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Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional provide additional control over linear and radial gradients for complete ...types of gradients: Linear gradients change color in the Color panel You can expand the panel to use with Flash Player. Create or edit a solid color with solid colors and gradient fills in an outward direction starting from ...following : • Select a color swatch from the palette. • Type a color's hexadecimal value in the Color panel. FLASH CS3 188 User Guide 2 Select Window > Properties > Properties. 3 To select a color, click the triangle next to the Fill ...
Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional provide additional control over linear and radial gradients for complete ...types of gradients: Linear gradients change color in the Color panel You can expand the panel to use with Flash Player. Create or edit a solid color with solid colors and gradient fills in an outward direction starting from ...following : • Select a color swatch from the palette. • Type a color's hexadecimal value in the Color panel. FLASH CS3 188 User Guide 2 Select Window > Properties > Properties. 3 To select a color, click the triangle next to the Fill ...