
About the Flash Authoring Environment
Chapter 1
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About the Flash Authoring
Environment
Flash CS4 introduces a new user interface for
the authoring environment: the application
frame. is frame holds Flash’s panels and
documents in a resizable window. e frame
keeps elements together, making the most
e cient use of space and creating a Flash
“desktop” that hides elements of other open
applications. (In the Mac OS, such elements
would otherwise show through any spaces
between panels and documents, creating a
distracting visual eld.) A menu bar contain-
ing the Flash commands appears at the top
of the screen, above the application frame.