Slide Class (Flash Professional Only) - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual

Slide class (Flash Professional only)

The Slide class corresponds to a node in a hierarchical slide presentation. In Flash MX
Professional 2004, you can create slide presentations using the Screen Outline pane. For an
overview of working with screens, see Chapter 12, "Working with Screens (Flash Professional
Only)," in Using Flash.
The Slide class extends the Screen class (see
and provides built-in navigation and sequencing capabilities between slides, as well as the ability
to easily attach transitions between slides using behaviors. Slides maintain "state," so that when a
user advances to an adjacent slide, the previous slide is hidden.
Note that you can only navigate to ("stop on") slides that don't contain any child slides ("leaf "
slides). For example, consider the following illustration, which shows the contents of the Screen
Outline pane for a sample slide presentation:
When this presentation starts, it will, by default, "stop" on the slide named Finance, which is the
first slide in the presentation that doesn't contain any child slides.
Also note that child slides "inherit" the visual appearance (graphics and other content) of their
parent slides. For example, in the above illustration, in addition to the content on the Finance
slide, the user would also see any content on the Intro and Presentation slides.
Note: The Slide class inherits from the
JPEG files into a given slide. This provides a way to make your slide presentations modular and
reduce initial download time. For more information, see
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Using the Slide class (Flash Professional only)
You use the methods and properties of the Slide class to control slide presentations you create
using the Screen Outline pane (Window > Screen), to get information about a slide presentation
(for example, to determine the number of child slides contained by parent slide), or to navigate
between slides in a slide presentation (for example, to create "Next slide" and "Previous
slide" buttons).
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