MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 600

To create a slide:
1. Create a new file using one of the screen presentation templates.
2.
To add new slides to the presentation, do one of the following actions:
Select Insert > Screen.
Press Enter.
Click the Plus (+) button in the header of the Screen Outline pane.
Right-click to open the context menu, and select Insert Screen.
3.
You can create slides that share graphical content such as logos by inserting nesting slides
and placing the shared content on the parent slide. For example, the content that appears
on the slide labeled Presentation appears on all the slides in the presentation. Insert nested
screens by right-clicking in the Screen Outline pane and selecting Insert Nested Screen.
For more information on using slides and the outline pane, see
Screens (Flash Professional Only)," on page
Adding transitions to the screen presentation templates
(Flash Professional only)
After you've customized the content of your presentation, you can add animated transitions
that help illustrate your points. Use the Behaviors panel to add transitions to your
presentations.
To add transitions to a screen presentation:
1. Select the screen for which you'd like to add a transition.
2. If the Behaviors panel isn't visible, select Window > Behaviors.
3. Click the Add button (+) in the Behaviors panel, and select Screen > Set Transition.
4. Customize your transition in the dialog box. For information about each available
transition style, see
Professional only)" on page
5. Click OK after you finish designing your transition.
6. Select the event on which you'd like your transition to start. The most common events for
slide transitions are
hidden.
For more information on behaviors, see
600 Using Templates
335.
"Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviors (Flash
353.
, when the slide becomes visible, or
onShow
"Controlling instances with behaviors" on page
Chapter 14, "Working with
when the slide is
onHide,
94.