MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual page 319

To enable Flash Player detection:
Select Detect Flash Version on the HTML tab of the Publish Settings dialog box. For general
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information, see
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Note: The option is available only if you selected Flash Player 4 or later on the Flash tab of the
Publish Settings dialog box, and if you have not selected QuickTime or Image Map as a template.
Click Settings for Detect Flash Version. The dialog box shows the Flash Player version that you
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selected on the Flash tab of the Publish Settings dialog box. You can use the Major Revision and
Minor Revision text boxes to specify precise revisions of Flash Player.
The Detection File text box shows the name of the HTML file that contains the SWF file
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designed to detect the Player version and redirect users to the appropriate HTML page. You can
accept the default name or change it.
Note: Changing the default name also changes the name in the HTML text box on the Formats tab
of the Publish Settings dialog box.
Use the Content File text box to specify the name of the HTML template that contains your
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Flash content. The default name is the name of your document, appended with _content.
Do one of the following to create the alternate HTML page, for users who don't have the
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specified Flash Player version:
If you want Flash to automatically create an alternate HTML file, select Generate Default
and either accept the default filename in the Alternate File text box or enter a new filename.
If you created an HTML file to use as the alternate file, select Use Existing, click Browse,
and select the HTML file.
Click OK to return to the Publish Settings dialog box.
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Specifying publish settings for GIF files
GIF files provide an easy way to export drawings and simple animations for use in web pages.
Standard GIF files are simply compressed bitmaps.
An animated GIF file (sometimes referred to as a GIF89a) offers a simple way to export short
animation sequences. Flash optimizes an animated GIF file, storing only frame-to-frame changes.
Flash exports the first frame in the SWF file as a GIF file, unless you mark a different keyframe
for export by entering the frame label #Static in the Property inspector. Flash exports all the
frames in the current SWF file to an animated GIF file unless you specify a range of frames for
export by entering the frame labels #First and #Last in the appropriate keyframes.
Flash can generate an image map for a GIF file to maintain URL links for buttons in the original
document. You use the Property inspector to place the frame label #Map in the keyframe in
which you want to create the image map. If you don't create a frame label, Flash creates an image
map using the buttons in the last frame of the SWF file. You can create an image map only if the
template variable is present in the template you select. For more information, see
$IM
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