About Html Publishing Templates - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Deleting a publish profile
When you no longer need a publish profile, you can delete it from the document.
To delete a publish profile:
In the Publish Settings dialog box (File > Publish Settings), select the publish profile that you
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want to delete in the Current Profile pop-up menu.
Click the Delete Profile button. In the dialog box that requests confirmation of the
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deletion, click OK.

About HTML publishing templates

A Flash HTML template is a text file that contains both unchanging HTML code and template
code or variables (which differ from ActionScript variables). When you publish a Flash SWF file,
Flash replaces the variables in the template you selected in the Publish Settings dialog box with
your HTML settings and produces an HTML page with your SWF file embedded.
Flash includes various templates, suitable for most users' needs, that eliminate the need to edit
an HTML page with the Flash SWF file. For example, one template simply places a Flash SWF
file on the generated HTML page so that users can view it through a web browser if the plug-in
is installed.
You can easily use the same template, change the settings, and publish a new HTML page. If
you're proficient in HTML, you can also create custom templates using any HTML editor.
Creating a template is the same as creating a standard HTML page, except that you replace
specific values pertaining to a Flash SWF file with variables that begin with a dollar sign ($).
Flash HTML templates have the following characteristics:
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A one-line title that appears on the Template pop-up menu.
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A longer description that appears when you click the Info button.
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Template variables beginning with a dollar sign ($) specify where parameter values should be
substituted when Flash generates the output file.
Note: Use a backslash and dollar sign (\ $) combination if you need to use a dollar sign for another
purpose in the document.
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HTML
object
and Netscape Communicator/Navigator, respectively. To display a SWF file properly on an
HTML page, you must follow these tag requirements. Internet Explorer opens a Flash SWF
file using the
"Using object and embed tags" on page
and tags that follow the tag requirements of Microsoft Internet Explorer
embed
HTML tag; Netscape uses the
object
tag. For more information, see
embed
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