View The Library Panel; Add Graphics To The Stage; Add Video - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

View the Library panel

Flash content that you import or that is a symbol is stored in your Library panel. To learn
more about symbols and instances, select Help > How Do I > Basic Flash > Create Symbols
and Instances.
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To view the Library panel, select Window > Library.
We've already imported library items and created symbols for objects that you'll use in
this lesson.
Note: Flash also contains a library of buttons that you can use in your document. To view this
library, after taking this lesson, select Window > Other Panels > Common Libraries and select the
Buttons library.

Add graphics to the Stage

To add library items to your document, you verify that you're adding the object to the correct
layer, then drag the item from the Library panel to the Stage.
In the Timeline, click the Content layer name to select that layer. With the Selection tool
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selected, drag the Title movie clip, which contains a bitmap image and vector graphic, from the
Library panel to the Stage and align it over the Title guide.
In Flash, you can work with both bitmap images, which describe graphics using pixels, and
vector art, which uses mathematical representation to describe art. For more information, see
"About vector and bitmap graphics" in Using Flash.
With the Content layer still selected, drag the text symbol from the Library panel to Stage, and
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align it with the Trio ZX2004 text that's already in place as a guide. You can use your keyboard
arrow keys to nudge the text into place.
The title text is actually a graphic created from text.

Add video

The Library panel includes an imported Flash video file (FLV). You'll add the video to your
document, and Flash will add the necessary frames to play the video.
To learn more about using video in Flash, see "Working with Video" in Using Flash.
Verify that the Content layer is still selected in the Timeline. From the Library panel, drag the
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ggb_movie_for_trio_new video to the dark gray Video guide on the Stage.
A dialog box appears that indicates Flash will add 138 frames to the Timeline for the video.
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Click Yes.
Drag the playhead across the Timeline to view the video.
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