Flash working environment

Whatever you are making or rediging files in Flash, you will be doing it with the next basic tools:

  • Stage, working environment and timeline.
  • You will also use the tools from Toolbox and panels so you could create and manipulate the objects.

 

Architects verses designers

Flash has a few working spaces prepared in advance, which give you access to tools and characteristics that would be useful when working with motion pictures.

You can choose between panels that point out designer's or architect's work inside Flash.
The designer's panel set is focused on media elements in Flash, such as colour mixing and object transformation.

The architect's panel set allows advanced scripting and tools for correcting mistakes.

However, inside all of design and architecural sets, panels can be added, closed or moved to whatever suits you the best.


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  What is Flash ?


When interactive animation wants to be put on website, many web designers and architects use Flash. User's interface, logos and animated movies, all that can be found in Flash movies at corporation's, social and personal websites on the Internet.

Flash became the favourite tool in web design for several reasons. First, Flash gives to designers and architects bigger control over they work. When they are not using Flash to design web pages, the final result depends of a user's browser.

Using the Flash gives you, as a designer, an opportunity to determine how the website is going to function and appear, no matter which browser is used since it would be visible because of Flash Player use. If we add to this an easy accessibility to Flash Player (it's included in most of web browsers, system softweres and other standard add-ons on new computers and it can be taken from ADOBE website) you can see why is flash becomming a standard.

Flash integrated a lot of functions into one easy - to - use programme. Not only that you can create animated movies from "zero" point with Flash, but you can also bring in some graphic content, created in other programmes, and use Flash to animate it. However, downloading time depends on watcher's connection type so, you have to thing of it when making an animation.

Later you will get a better insight into vector and rasterised graphic extensions.

 

 

Watching a Flash movie

 

1. Start your web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator)
2. Choose File -> Open. A menu is opened.
3. Mark Flash MX Level 1 Data folder and open banner_example.html file. A Flash animation is now started as it is watched over the web.
4. Close a window of browser.
5. Start a Flash aplication.
6. Open banner_example.fla file in FLash MX Level 1 Data folder. When it is opened, Flash will be showing you the first frame of a movie in a Flash working environment.
7. Choose Control -> Play. The animation starts. This is a type of animation effect that you can be making in Flash.
8. Close the file and don't save the changes you made.