Chapter 2: Working With Projects (Flash Professional Only) - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only)
In Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you can use Flash Projects to manage multiple
document files in a single project. Flash Projects allow you to group multiple, related files together
to create complex applications.
You can use version-control features with projects to ensure that the correct file versions are used
during editing, and to prevent accidental overwriting. To use version control, you must first add
files to a project. For information on version control, see
(Flash Professional only)" on page
Flash Projects include the following features:
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A Flash Project can contain any Flash or other file type, including previous versions of FLA
and SWF files.
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You can add an existing file to a Flash Project. Each file can be added to a particular Flash
Project only once. Files can be organized in nested folders.
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A Flash Project is an XML file with the file extension .flp–for example, myProject.flp. The
XML file references all the document files contained in the Flash Project.
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A Flash Project can contain another Flash Project (FLP file).
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Changes that you make to a project are updated to the FLP file immediately, so the file is
always current. (You do not need to do a Save File operation.)
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You can create a Flash Project in the Flash MX Professional 2004 authoring environment, or
you can create the XML file for a Flash Project in an external application.
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Flash Projects use UTF-8 text encoding. All filenames and folder names in a Flash Project must
be UTF-8 compatible.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Creating and managing projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Troubleshooting remote folder setup (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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