About Flash Player; What's New In Flash - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH Getting Started

8. Select the file named SimpleFlash.html.
9.
Click Open.
Your Flash document is displayed in the browser window.
Congratulations! You have now completed your first Flash document.

About Flash Player

Flash Player 8, which runs the applications that you create, is installed by
default when you install Flash. Flash Player ensures that all Flash SWF files
are viewable and available consistently across the broadest range of
platforms, browsers, and devices, including mobile phones.
Flash Player is distributed with products from every major software
partner, including Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, AOL, and Opera, which
brings rich content and applications to over 516 million people worldwide.
Flash Player is distributed freely to anyone who wants to use it. You can get
the latest version of Flash Player at the Macromedia Flash Player Download
Center at www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer.

What's new in Flash

Many new features in Flash are helpful to beginners. This section
summarizes those new features. For a comprehensive list of new features for
both beginning and advanced Flash users, see
Using Flash.
New Features in Flash Basic 8 and Flash
Professional 8
The following are new features for beginners in Flash Basic 8 and Flash
Professional 8.
Gradient enhancements
gradients to objects on the Stage. You can add up to 16 colors to a gradient,
precisely control the location of the gradient focal point, and apply other
parameters to the gradient. Macromedia also simplified the workflow for
applying gradients. For more information, see
bitmap fills" in Using Flash.

"What's new in Flash"

New controls allow you to apply complex
"Transforming gradient and
in
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