MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 335

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Working with Screens (Flash
Professional Only)
In Macromedia Flash Professional 8, screens provide an authoring user interface with
structural building blocks that make it easy for you to create complex, hierarchical Flash
documents, such as slide presentations or form-based applications.
Screens provide high-level containers for creating applications. With screens, you can
structure complex applications in Flash without using multiple frames and layers in the
Timeline. In fact, you can create a complex application without viewing the Timeline.
When you author a screen-based document, the screens are arranged in a structured hierarchy
that you create. You structure the document by nesting screens in a branching tree. You can
easily preview and modify the structure of a screen-based document.
You can create screen-based documents of two types: a Flash Slide Presentation, suitable for
sequential content such as a slide show or multimedia presentation, or a Flash Form
Application, ideal for nonlinear, form-based applications, including Rich Internet
Applications. Screen-based documents can be saved in Flash Player 6 format or later only.
Detail of default workspace for a new Flash Slide Presentation. Screen thumbnails appear in the
Screen Outline pane on the left side of the workspace, and the Timeline is collapsed.
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