Chapter 6: Flash Integration; How Flash Elements Work; Inserting Flash Elements - Adobe 38040334 - Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual

Chapter 6: Flash integration

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 provides support for Flash elements as well as continuing support for
the Flash Object API, which leverages the Flash Generator Template file to create new Flash
objects. This chapter describes ways of working with Flash elements (SWC files), and also
provides details for the creation of Flash objects (SWF files) from Flash Generator templates
(SWT files).
For information about simply adding Flash content to Dreamweaver objects or commands, see
Extending Dreamweaver.

How Flash elements work

Flash elements are packaged as SWC files. A SWC file is a compiled component movie clip that
Flash generates for Adobe and third-party products to use. Dreamweaver can make these
components available to users through the Insert bar, Insert menu, or a toolbar. You create Flash
elements using the Flash authoring tool, but Dreamweaver can parse properties of a Flash
element and express them through the tag (a child of the tag). Users can then
param object
edit the tag attributes to change the properties of the element as it is published (for
param
more information about working with component properties in Dreamweaver, see
Using Dreamweaver).

Inserting Flash elements

Flash elements are installed through the Extension Manager. Dreamweaver adds Flash elements
to documents in the same manner as the objects that are available on the Insert bar or the Insert
menu (for details about working with Dreamweaver objects, see "Insert Bar Objects" in
Extending Dreamweaver). By clicking on objects on the Insert bar or selecting menu options
from the Insert menu, users can add strings of code to documents. Flash elements are available
to users through the Insert bar or the Insert menu (meaning you can add a valid Flash element