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CHAPTER 1
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Flash Lite Overview
About Flash Lite technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Flash Lite 1.x availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About Flash Lite content types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Workflow for authoring Flash Lite applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Flash Lite authoring features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using Flash Lite document templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hello World Flash Lite application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About the stand-alone Flash Lite player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About Flash Lite technology
Macromedia Flash Lite from Adobe is a version of Adobe Flash Player
designed for mobile devices. It balances Flash features and capabilities with
the processing power and configurations of today's mass market mobile
devices. There are currently two versions of Flash Lite 1: Flash Lite 1.0 and
Flash Lite 1.1, collectively known as Flash Lite 1.x. Flash Lite 1.x consists
of the following features:
The rendering engine handles all vector and
The core rendering engine
bitmap rendering.
Flash Lite supports the version of the
ActionScript interpreter
ActionScript language used in Macromedia® Flash® Player 4 from Adobe,
including many mobile-specific commands, such as getting time and date
information from the device. This hybrid of Flash Player 4 ActionScript
and commands with properties specific to Flash Lite is collectively called
Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript.
For more information about Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript, see Flash Lite 1.x
ActionScript Language Reference and Learning Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript.
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