presentation of macromedia flash

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Introduction to macromedia

flash

Macromediawas a former American graphics andweb-development software house(1992-2005)

headquartered in San Francisco, Californiathat

produced such products as Flashand Dreamweaver.

Its rival, Adobe Systems,acquired Macromedia onDecember 3, 2005 and controls the line of

Macromedia products.

It is a client application available in most web

browsers.

It features support for vector and raster graphics, a

native scripting language called Action Script and

bidirectional streaming of audio and video.
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Macromedia Flash Macromedia's popular application Flash has

redefined the way web developers approach web design.

Websites made up of music, videos, and custom, graphic

intensive interfaces are all possible with Macromedia Flash

Macromedia Flash is an industry leading tool that supplies its

users with animations, presentations, and mind blowing websites,while doing this at a constant low bandwidth.

Flash is a program by Macromedia for creating interactive,

animated online content.

Animated simply means "to have movement" -- Flash content

does not have to be a cartoon.

It is commonly used to mimic software interface elements such

as scroll bars, drop-down menus, buttons, and navigational

systems.


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The term "Flash" has also come to mean the actual files created usingMacromedia s program of the same name.

Getting to know the Flash authoring environment makes you more

effective and efficient as you create movies.

You'll get to know the parts of the Flash window, which include theToolbar, Timeline, Stage, panels, and Property Inspector.

The Toolbar, also known as the Tools panel, contains tools that you canuse to draw, paint, select, and modify artwork.

The Timeline represents the overall structure of a Flash document andcontrols the content.

The Timeline consists of layers, frames, and scenes that make up aFlash document. Layers are like transparent sheets stacked on top of oneanother. Each layer can contain different images that appear on theStage.

A frame displays content at a specific moment on the Stage.


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Macromedia flash MX professional :

Flash MX Professional uses twoversions of the Flash Player for

authoring: the Flash MX

Professional 2004 test movie player

and the stand-alone player.

Whenever you select the Control

>Test Movie or Control > Test Scene

menu commands in Flash MXProfessional 2004, the test movie

player is started.


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Flash movies

A movie clip is a symbol which

(generally speaking) resides in thelibrary, with one or more instances of

it on stage.

Additional important things to

remember about movie clips: every

movie clip instance has its own

timeline, its own play head, and its

own functions and variables.

Every movie clip instance also has its

own name, which may be assigned byyou in the properties panel, or will be

assigned by Flash otherwise. A movie

clip always runs at the same frame rate

as the main timeline.


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Flash Toolbars

The menu bar at the top of theFlash application window displaysmenus with commandsfor controlling Flash functionality.

The menus include File, Edit,View, Insert, Modify, Text,Commands, Control, Window, andHelp. The edit bar, at the top of theTimeline, contains controls andinformation for editing scenes andsymbols, and for changing the

magnification level of the Stage.

The tools in the Tools panel letyou draw, paint, select, and modifyartwork, as well as change the viewof the Stage.


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Additional important things to remember

about movie clips:

The tools area contains drawing, painting, andselection tools.

The view area contains tools for zooming and

panning in the application window.

The colours area contains modifiers for stroke and

folklores.

The options area displays modifiers for the currently

selected tool. Modifiers affect the tool's painting or editing

operations


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Symbols:

A symbol is a reusable object used/created in Flash.

A Symbol can be reused throughout your movie orimported and used in other movies.

There are three types of symbols: Graphics, Buttons, andMovie clips.

A copy of a symbol used in the movie is called an

Instance, which can have its own independent properties(like colour, size, function, etc.) different from the originalsymbol.

All symbols used in a flash movie are stored in the Libraryfrom where you can drag-and-drop new instances of thesymbols into your movie.

When a symbol is edited all of its instances get updated,but changing the properties, effects or dimensions of aninstance of a symbol does not affect the original symbol or

other instances.


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Graphic symbols are

reusable static images thatare used mainly to createanimations.

Any drawn

vector/plaintext/importedbitmap (photo), orcombinations of these, canbe converted into a single

controllable object: as agraphic symbol.

They have only one framein their timeline


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Button symbols are used fortimeline navigation - They addinteractivity to the movie andrespond to mouse clicks, key

press or rollovers/rollout, andother actions.

You define the graphicsassociated with various buttonstates (Up/Over/Down/Hit), andthen assign actions to the

instance of a button. They have4 frames in their timeline - oneeach for the up, over and downstates, and one to define the hitarea of the button.


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Movie clip symbols are reusablepieces of flash animation - consisting

of one or more graphic/buttonsymbols - thus theyre flash movieswithin your flash movie.

They have their own non-restricted

Timeline (any number of layers andframes - just like the main timeline)that plays independent of the mainmovie's Timeline.

The best thing about using movieclips is that you can control themfrom action script - you can changetheir dimensions, position, colour,alpha, and other properties and can

even duplicate and delete them.


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Motion Guides are paths drawn by you

that your objects will follow. However, Motion Guides only work

with Motion Tweens.

Let's say you wanted to animate an a

bird flying in a curving path. You cando this by using a Motion Guide.

You can drag horizontal and vertical

guides from the rulers onto the Stage

when the rulers are displayed.

You can move guides, lock guides,

hide guides, and remove guides.


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You can also snap objects to guides, and changethe guide colour and snap tolerance (how close

objects must be to snap to a guide). Flash allows you to create nested timelines.

Drag gable guides appear on the Stage only whenthe Timeline in which they were created is active.

You can clear all the guides in the current editingmode--document-editing mode or symbol-editingmode.

If you clear guides in document-editing mode, allthe guides in the document are cleared.

If you clear guides in symbol-editing mode, allthe guides in all symbols are cleared.


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Animation in flash:

While working in Flash you willfind it necessary to create

simple animation sequences. InFlash, animation can be done infour basic ways: MotionTween Shape Tween Frame-

by-Frame Animation Guided

Motion Tween Creating MotionTween.

Timeline of Motion Tween Usethe Colour Panel of the

Properties inspector to reducethe Alpha value from100 to 32for the1stand last frames to

produce Simple AlphaTweening as shown in theExample.


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You can create Shape Tweened

animations using Shape option from

the Tween panel of the Propertiesinspector. Draw a vector using any of

the drawing tools in Flash, say a small

circle and remove its border.

Click the10th frame in the Timeline

and insert a Key Frame (F6). Nowdraw another shape say a diamond

using the rectangle tool without a

border.

Now right-click on any frame in

between these two Key Frames andselect Shape option from the Tween

panel of the Properties inspector.

Save your work and test the Movie

(Ctrl + Enter). That's it you have

learnt how to create Shape Tween inFlash.


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In Frame-by-Frame animationwe create the object for each

frame so as to produce ananimation sequence.

Insert Key frame (F6) andmove the alphabets so as to

produce an animation sequence. Repeat the above step as far as

desired to create Frame-by-Frame animation as shown inthe example.

Save your work and test theMovie (Ctrl + Enter). That's ityou have created an animationusing Frame-by-Frameanimation.


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Create a vector/plain text using

any of the drawing tools inFlash, say a text with 'Flash'typed and break it using BreakApart (Ctrl + B) as done in the

previous example and put each

alphabet indifferent layers andname the layers as shown in the

picture.

Insert a guide layer by right-clicking the topmost layer and

select 'Add Guide Layer'(Insert-->Timeline-->MotionGuide), draw any path using the

pencil tool in the guide layer asshown in the example.


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Now create Motion tween byselecting the object in the 1stframe and snapping itsregistration point to one end

of the path. Snap the object in the last

frame to the other end of thepath in the guide layer.

Repeat the same for all theobjects (alphabets) bysnapping their registration

points to the path in theguide layer.

Save your work and test theMovie (Ctrl + Enter). That'sit we have learnt how tocreate motion along a guided

path.


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Oldest version of flash: Compatible flash

player includes flash

6,7,8.


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Flash MX 2004 Flash 10, 10.1, 10.2


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Version released Comments

Future

Splash

Animator1995

Initial version of Flash with basic editingtools and a timeline. In December 1996,Macromedia acquired Future Splash andlater released it as Flash 1.0.

1 1996Flash 1 (December 1996) - a Macromedia re-branded version of the Future SplashAnimator.

2 1997

Flash 2 (June 1997) - the object library wasadded to Flash.

3 1998Flash 3 (31 May 1998) - the movie clipelement, Java script plug-in integration,transparency and an external stand aloneplayer was added to Flash.


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4

1999 Flash 4 (15 June 1999) - internal variables,

an input field, advanced Action script, and

streaming MP3.

5

2000 Flash 5 (24 August 2000)Java script like

Actionscript, Smart clips, HTML text formatting

added.

MX 2002 Flash MX (15 March 2002) - UI

Components, XML, compression, streaming

video codec.


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MX2004 2003 Flash MX 2004 (10 September 2003) - text alias,

Unicode, Action script 2.0, improved streaming video

codec, behaviours. Launch of a Pro version - all Flash

MX 2004 features plus a form and slide editor, webservices integration, Object Oriented Programming in

Action Script 2.0, and Media Playback components,

which encapsulate a complete MP3 and/or FLV player

in a component that may be placed in a SWF.

8 2005

Flash 8 (13 September 2005) - Added an external

interface allowing the host machine to

programmatically control Flash content. At the same

time the Pro version was released - with improvedhigher-quality of video codec and encoder. Added

Filters and Blending Modes for movie-clips and

buttons.


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