29-06-2012, 01:55 PM
Macromedia Flash 5
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What is Flash?
Flash 5 is the latest version of Macromedia’s
graphics and animation package
Flash File Types
In the Flash you can use many file types.
We will cover the most important ones:
FLA Files
SWF Files
HTML Files
PROJECTOR Files
Scenes
The Flash movie can have one or more Scenes
Each new Flash movie comes with one default scene, named “Scene 1”
The Movie Explorer
The Movie Explorer gives you the ability to browse through the whole movie at different levels of detail
The Movie Explorer displays the contents of the movie: scenes, layers and keyframes
Toolbox
The Toolbox is a toolbar where you can quickly access all the drawing, painting and editing tools
The Toolbox window is divided into four sections
Vector Graphics
A Vector graphic file stores image data in the form of mathematical expressions
Vector graphics can scale to any size without loosing the image quality
Vector graphics are not good for representing a detailed graphic
Grouping Objects
Grouping objects has two main benefits:
It isolates objects from the other shapes so that they do not merge into one shape when overlapped
It allows stacking of the shapes