Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Index

Index

568

motion-tween symbols, 279

motion tweening, 277–298

best practices, 279

vs. classic tweening, 243, 277,

278

copying and pasting, 321–322

creating bouncing ball with,

279–284

and Distribute to Layers

feature, 179

and Flash versions, 277

how it works, 278

and motion-tween paths,

288–293

and Orient to Path option, 294

swapping tween targets in,

295–298

motion tweens

autorotation in, 310

copying motion of, 475

and custom easing, 360, 361

and inverse kinematics, 348

multiple-layer, 336–340

re-creating, 362–364

reversing direction of,

346–347, 349

mouse events, 436, 453

mouseMove

event, 453

MOV  les, 532

movie-clip buttons, 415–418,

459, 462

movie-clip symbols

animated, 352, 355–356

converting animations to, 351

as interactive objects, 453

vs. other types, 195

placing instances of, 355

scripting to act as buttons,

459–462

movie-display windows

controlling placement of

movie window in, 550

scaling movies to  t, 549

setting dimensions of, 548

movies

adding button component

to, 454

adding keyframes to, 237–238

controlling playback of, 235

exporting, 525

 le-size considerations, 526,

529

 tting into browser windows,

548

placing buttons in, 403

placing symbol instances in,

199

preparing for optimal

playback, 526–529

previewing, 234–235

printing, 525

publishing, 531–533

quality issues, 526

removing frames from,

228–230

scrubbing through, 234

setting frame rate for, 236

MP3 compression, 539

MP3 format, 487

MSAA technology, 530

multiline delimiters, 428

multimedia projects, 487

multiple-shape tweens, 268–269

MX  les, 477

N

nested objects, 463

New Document dialog, 4, 8

New Document option, 2

New Folder button, 191

New Symbol button/command,

197

New Workspace dialog, 11

No Document option, 2

nodes, 371

numeric values, entering, 24

O

Object Drawing mode, 39, 54,

55, 70

object-level undo, 208

Omit Trace Actions option, 542

On Launch options, 2

onion skinning, 239–240,

241–242, 249, 294, 340

Open As Library dialog, 188

operators, 440

Orient to Path mode, 256

Orientation menu, 89

outlines, viewing layers/folders

as, 169

Oval Options section, Property

inspector, 60

oval-primitive tool, 137, 139–140

oval-primitives, shape tweening,

276

oval tool, 58–59

ovals, transforming rectangles

into, 266–267

Over keyframe, 399

Over state, 401, 404, 415

Over ow menu, 125

overlapping

 lls, 147, 155

images, 161, 210

shapes, 67, 143, 155–156

sounds, 498, 500

P

padlock icon, 169

paint-bucket tool, 71, 73–75, 119

Paint Normal setting, 145

painting

with gradients, 68–70

random dot pattern, 157–158

panel icons, 16

panel windows, 14, 17, 18, 20

panels, 13–25. See also speci c

panels

accessing, 13

collapsing to icons, 16

docking/undocking, 21–24

double-docking, 23

grouping, 18–19, 22

modifying  lls/strokes in, 120

opening/closing, 14

positioning, 18

purpose of, 13

removing from group, 20

removing from stack, 20

sizing, 15–17

stacking, 19

paragraphs, 90–94

indenting  rst line of, 92

selecting, 91

setting alignment for, 91

setting line spacing for, 93

setting margins for, 94

parameter hints, 432

parameters

for button components, 411,

412, 413

for button states, 409

for events, 434

for FLVPlayback component,

518

for functions, 441

for grids/guides, 32–33

for patterns, 157, 160