MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Montageanleitung

Using Flash

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Acknowledgments

Project Management: Sheila McGinn

Writing: Chris Bedford

Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato

Lead Editor: Lisa Stanziano

Editing: Geta Carlson, John Hammett, Mary Kraemer, Noreen Maher, Mark Nigara, Lisa Stanziano

Production Management: Patrice O’Neill, Kristin Conradi, Yuko Yagi

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Aaron Begley, Paul Benkman. John Francis, Geeta Karmarkar, Masayo Noda,

Paul Rangel, Arena Reed, Mario Reynoso

Special thanks to Jody Bleyle, Mary Burger, Lisa Friendly, Stephanie Gowin, Bonnie Loo, Mary Ann Walsh, Erick Vera, the beta

testers, and the entire Flash and Flash Player engineering and QA teams.

First Edition: September 2005

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About Flash Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

What’s new in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 1: Working with Flash Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Creating or opening a document and setting properties . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using document tabs for multiple documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Saving Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

About adding media content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

About creating motion and interactivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

About components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Managing media assets with the library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

About Multiple Timelines and levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

About nested movie clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Using absolute and relative target paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About scenes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Working with scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Movie Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using Find and Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Undo, Redo, and Repeat menu commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using the History panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Saving documents when you undo steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Automating tasks with the Commands menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Creating custom keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

About customizing context menus in Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . 62

About the links menu in Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Speeding up document display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Optimizing Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Testing document download performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Printing from the Flash authoring tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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Chapter 2: Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only) . . .69

Creating and managing projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . 70

Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . 73

Troubleshooting remote folder setup (Flash Professional only) . . . . . 75

Chapter 3: Using Symbols, Instances, and Library Assets . . . . . 77

Types of symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

About 9-slice scaling and movie clip symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Editing movie clip symbols with 9-slice scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Runtime bitmap caching movie clip and button symbols . . . . . . . . . . . 81

About controlling instances and symbols with ActionScript . . . . . . . . 82

Creating symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Creating instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Enabling, editing, and testing buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Editing symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Changing instance properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Controlling instances with behaviors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Creating custom behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Best practices for using behaviors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Breaking apart instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Getting information about instances on the Stage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Copying library assets between documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using shared library assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Resolving conflicts between library assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Chapter 4: Working with Color, Strokes, and Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

About the Color Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

About creating gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Tools panel. . . .114

Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the

Property inspector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Working with solid colors and gradient fills in the Color Mixer . . . . . . 117

Modifying strokes with the Ink Bottle tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Applying solid, gradient, and bitmap fills with the

Paint Bucket tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Transforming gradient and bitmap fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Copying strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Locking a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Modifying color palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

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Chapter 5: Drawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

About vector and bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

About Flash drawing models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

About Flash drawing and painting tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Using the Object Drawing model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Drawing with the Pencil tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Drawing straight lines, ovals, and rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Drawing polygons and stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Using the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Painting with the Brush tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Reshaping lines and shape outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Erasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Modifying shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Specifying drawing settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Chapter 6: Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

About FlashType . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

About Unicode text encoding in Flash applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

About font outlines and device fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Creating text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Creating scrolling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Setting text attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Creating font symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

About transforming text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Using Timeline effects with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Breaking text apart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Linking text to a URL (horizontal text only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Preserving rich text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Substituting missing fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Controlling text with ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182

Creating scrolling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Chapter 7: Using Imported Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Placing artwork into Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Working with imported bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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Chapter 8: Working with Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Moving, copying, and deleting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Stacking objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Transforming objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Flipping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Restoring transformed objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Aligning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Breaking apart groups and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222

Chapter 9: Using Filters and Blends

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

About filters (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

About importing filters and blends from Fireworks PNG files

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

About animating filters (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227

About filters and Flash Player performance (Flash

Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Applying filters (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

About blend modes (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Applying a blend mode (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Chapter 10: Creating Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Using Timeline effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

About tweened animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248

About frame-by-frame animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

About layers in animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

About creating keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

About representations of animation in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

About frame rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Extending still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Distributing objects to layers for tweened animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . .252

Tweening instances, groups, and type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253

Tweening motion along a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257

Applying custom ease in/ease out to motion tweens

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258

Tweening shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using shape hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Creating frame-by-frame animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Editing animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265

Using mask layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

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Chapter 11: Working with Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

About video features in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

About using video in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Video and the Property inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

About digital video and Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Importing video using the Video Import wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Encoding video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Importing Flash Video files into the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

About playing back external FLV files dynamically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Changing the properties of a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

Controlling video playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Using the FLVPlayback component (Flash Professional only) . . . . 304

About controlling video playback using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Media components (Flash Player 6 and 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Chapter 12: Working with Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Importing sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312

Adding sounds to a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Adding sounds to buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Using sounds with Sound objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316

About accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with Flash Player . . . .316

Using the sound-editing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Controlling sound playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

Starting and stopping sounds at keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

About the onSoundComplete event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Compressing sounds for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

About using sounds in Flash Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Chapter 13: Writing ActionScript with Script Assist . . . . . . . . . 327

About Script Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using Script Assist to write ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Creating a startDrag/stopDrag event using Script Assist . . . . . . . . . .331

Chapter 14: Working with Screens

(Flash Professional Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Understanding screen-based documents and the

screen authoring environment (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . 336

Using the Screen Outline pane (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . 342

About undoing and redoing commands with screens

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using the screens context menu (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . 343

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Creating a new screen-based document

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343

Adding screens to a document (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . 344

Naming screens (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346

Setting properties and parameters for a screen

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

About adding media content to screens

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Selecting and moving screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . 351

Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviors

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353

Using Find and Replace with screens (Flash Professional only) . . .356

About using the Movie Explorer with screens (

Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357

About using Timelines with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . .357

About using ActionScript with screens (Flash Professional only) . . 357

About using components with screens (Flash Professional only) . 360

Accessibility in the Flash screens authoring environment

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Chapter 15: Creating Multilanguage Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Selecting an encoding language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .364

About fonts for Unicode-encoded text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366

Using embedded fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366

Authoring multilanguage text with the Strings panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370

Creating documents with multilanguage text without

using the Strings panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Using external text or XML files that are not Unicode-encoded . . . .385

Chapter 16: Data Integration (Flash Professional Only). . . . . . .387

Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Creating a simple application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Workflows for using the data components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393

Data binding (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Data connectivity (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Data management (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Data resolution (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427

Advanced topics in data integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

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Chapter 17: Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Playing your Flash SWF files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

About publishing secure Flash documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Configuring a server for Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Publishing Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

About publishing Flash Lite documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Using publish profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

About HTML publishing templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .481

Customizing HTML publishing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Editing Flash HTML settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Previewing the publishing format and settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Using Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

About configuring a web server for Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Chapter 18: Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .501

Exporting Flash content and images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .501

About export file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .510

Chapter 19: Creating Accessible Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Worldwide accessibility standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .512

Macromedia Flash Accessibility web page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513

Understanding screen reader technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513

Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers . . .516

Viewing and creating tab order and reading order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Creating a tab order index for keyboard navigation in the

Accessibility panel (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

About animation and accessibility for the visually impaired . . . . . . . 528

Using accessible components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Creating accessibility with ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Accessibility for hearing-impaired users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Testing accessible content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Chapter 20: Printing from SWF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Controlling printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Supported printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Using the ActionScript PrintJob class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Building a print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Starting a print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Printing frames independent of the PrintJob class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Changing the printed background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

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Using frame labels to disable printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .547

Printing from the Flash Player context menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .548

Publishing a document with printable frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Chapter 21: Creating E-learning Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Getting started with Flash learning interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .552

About Flash learning interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .552

Including a Flash learning interaction in a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Changing the appearance of a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .564

Testing a quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .567

Configuring learning interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .567

Adding, naming, and registering assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .576

Setting feedback options for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .582

Setting Knowledge Track options for a learning interaction . . . . . . .583

Setting navigation options for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . .584

Setting control button labels for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . .585

Tracking to AICC- or SCORM-compliant learning

management systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .586

Extending learning interaction scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Appendix A: Using Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Using templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Appendix B: XML to UI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Layout tag summary for XML to UI dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Control tag summary for XML to UI dialog boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607

<column> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

<columns> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

<dialog> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

<grid> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

<hbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .611

<row> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

<rows> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

<separator>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

<spacer> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

<vbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

<button>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .622

<checkbox>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .624

<choosefile> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625

<colorchip> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .627

<flash> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .629

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