May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
778 pages
23h 58m
English
Content preview from Flash CS5: The Missing Manual
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The Flash CS5 Test Drive
For the tutorials in this section, you need a Flash animation to practice on. There's one ready and waiting for you on the Missing CD page at www.missingmanuals.com/cds. The file is named 01-1_First_Animation.fla.
Note
In case you're wondering, the number 01 at the beginning stands for Chapter 1, and the -1 indicates it's the first exercise in the chapter. Other Missing CD files for this book are named the same way.
Open a Flash File
Download the file 01-1_First_Animation.fla and save it on your computer. You may want to create a FlashMM folder in your My Documents or Documents folder to hold your Missing Manual exercises. Launch Flash, and then choose File→Open. When the Open dialog box appears, navigate to the file you just downloaded, and then click Open. When you open a document, the Welcome screen disappears. Flash shows you the animation on the stage, surrounded by the usual timeline, toolbars, and panels. If you're using the Essentials workspace, it should look like Figure 1-12.
Figure 1-12. After you open the exercise in Flash, your screen should look like this. At the bottom, the timeline shows two layers—one named background and the other wheel. The stage shows (surprise, surprise) a background and a wheel. To the right, the Properties panel displays the properties for the document.
Explore the Properties Panel
The Properties panel appears docked to the ...
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