Chapter 1: Basic Tasks: Create A Document - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

CHAPTER 1
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Basic Tasks: Create a
Document
You're about to experience the power of Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and
Macromedia Flash Professional 8. You'll see how, in a few minutes, you can
create a compelling web experience that combines video, text, graphics,
and media control behaviors.
You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the
Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/
fl_documentation.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Take a tour of the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Select panel sets and arrange panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Change background and Stage size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Change your view of the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
View the Library panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Add graphics to the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Add video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
View object properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Add video control behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Use the Movie Explorer to view the document structure. . . . . . . . 22
Test the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Find help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Before taking this lesson, we recommend that you read Getting Started with
Flash, to learn about the Flash workspace. To access this guide, select
Help > Getting Started with Flash.
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