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Chapter 18: Working with screens
The Screens feature in Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional does not support ActionScript™ 3.0. To use screens, you must
start with an ActionScript 2.0-based FLA file.
Screen-based documents and the screen authoring
environment
About the screen authoring environment
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.
Note: The Screens feature in Flash does not support ActionScript 3.0. To use screens, you must start with an ActionScript
2.0-based FLA file.
Screens let you structure complex applications without using multiple frames and layers in the Timeline, and without
viewing the Timeline.
When you author a screen-based document, the screens are arranged in a structured hierarchy that you create. To
structure the document, nest screens in a branching tree. You can easily preview and modify the structure of a
screen-based document.
Detail of default pasteboard for a new Flash Slide Presentation. Screen thumbnails appear in the Screen Outline pane on the left side of the
pasteboard, and the Timeline is collapsed.
To author a screen-based document, you first create a Slide Presentation or Form Application document. Then you
add screens, configure the screens and add content, and add behaviors to create controls and transitions for the
screens.
Slide presentations and screens, and form applications and screens
There are two types of screen-based documents. The type of document you select determines the type of default
screen in the document.
• A Flash Slide Presentation uses the slide screen as the default screen type. A slide screen is designed for a
sequential presentation.