... checking out:
• Flashthusiast
(http://flashthusiast.com).
A blog maintained by Team Tween of
Flash at Adobe. You can read the new developments or search the archives.
• Flash Kit (www.flashkit.com). ... work.
• FlashTuts+ (http://active.tutsplus.com). Tutorials on ActionScript, AIR, Flash,
and other design tools.
• Flashloaded (www.flashloaded.com). A place to purchase predesigned Fl...
... Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst. Still, if you want to
learn Flash s design and animation features as well as its programming and develop-
ment features, then Flash Professional CS5 is the place ... desktop applications using Flash.
• Part Five: Appendixes. Appendix A, Installation and Help, explains how to install
Flash and where to turn for help. Appendix B, Flash CS5, Me...
... example, then click in Layer 1 to select Frame 10, as shown in
Figure 3-9.
Flash moves the playhead to the frame you selected.
Figure 3-9:
Here, Frame 10 was converted from a static
frame to a ... F6.
Just as when you inserted the blank keyframe, Flash moves the playhead and
inserts a keyframe icon; but instead of clearing the stage, Flash carries over the
content from the pre...
... again.
7. This time, turn on the checkbox next to Masked, and then click OK.
Flash displays the masked icon next to Layer 1.
Tip: Flash gives you a bunch of ways to create masks and masked layers (by ... the line (or outline) you want to convert into a fill.
Flash highlights the selected line.
2. Choose Modify➝Shape➝Convert Lines to Fills.
Flash redisplays the line as a fill, and the...
... graphic symbol.
You can use Flash s drawing tools, instances of other symbols, or even an im-
ported image (Chapter 10) , just as you can on the main stage. As you draw,
Flash displays a thumbnail ... cockroaches in the Flash advertisement you’re creating
for New and Improved Roach-B-Gone. You draw a single cockroach, then copy and
paste it 100 times. Congratulations: You’ve got your...
... and then change the Alpha amount to 100 %.
Setting the Alpha amount to 100 % makes the sign symbol completely opaque.
7. Test your animation in Flash or using the Flash Player.
At this point, the ... name>/Library/
Application Support/Adobe /Flash CS5/ Configuration/
<locale>/Motion Presets/
• Windows 7 and Vista: <hard disk>/Users\<your
name>\AppData\Local\Adob...
... yourself, it’s best
to put your Flash video in same folder where you save your Flash work file (.fla) and
publish your Flash animation (.swf).
1. Create a new Flash document, and then save it.
It’s ... one.
2. Place the Flash video 11-4_Building_Implode.flv in the same folder where you
save your Flash file (.fla) and your published Flash file (.swf).
This step makes it easier...
... events inside Flash, you may notice some odd behavior. That’s because
Flash itself is trapping some keyboard events, and it tends to catch the letter keys. If you actually publish
your Flash project, ... timeline. Double-click an error, and Flash highlights the offending line of
code. The explanations of errors may seem a little cryptic. If you don’t understand
what Flash is sayin...
... the Scene panel, Flash creates a new scene and then places it directly
below Scene 1. Flash also displays a brand-new timeline and a clean, fresh
stage (Figure 15 -10) .
Figure 15 -10:
Each time ... super-easy because
Flash does all the work. In fact,
Flash always assumes you
want to loop the movie clips you
add to your animations. (If you
don’t want to loop them, you can
tell...
... tfPoem.x = 110;
6 tfPoem.y = 110;
7 tfPoem.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
8 mcCanvas.addChild(tfPoem);
9
10 mcCanvas.graphics.beginFill(0x99FFFF);
11 mcCanvas.graphics.drawRect (100 ,100 ,200,150);
12 ... 19 -10) .
Figure 19 -10:
Oh, what a difference a faster con-
nection speed makes! Here, every
last one of the frames in the ani-
mation appears below the red line
that Flash has...