Chapter 12: Working With Screens (Flash Professional Only) - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

CHAPTER 12
Working with Screens (Flash Professional Only)
In Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, 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 on 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. For an introduction to building a
Flash Form Application, see the On Demand seminar, "Flash MX Professional 2004: Developing
with screens," at www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/online/ondemand/index.html.
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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