Creating a Web Site with Flash CS4 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide

Chapter 4. Work with Imported Objects

So far we’ve used Tools included in the Flash application to create different types of objects for our layout. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to incorporate layout elements created in other graphics applications.

You’ll also learn to keep the elements in our project organized, allowing for increased ease of development tasks. Here are some of the tasks we’ll cover:

Reusable Graphics

Since the framework that we’ve created will serve as the background of our Web site, we can reuse what we’ve drawn multiple times, for each page of our site. To do that, we need to convert the elements into one reusable symbol. When ...