Specifications

CHAPTER 1

Basic Tasks: Create a

Document

You’re about to experience the power of Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and

Macromedia Flash Professional 8. You’ll see how, in a few minutes, you can

create a compelling web experience that combines video, text, graphics,

and media control behaviors.

You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the

Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/

fl_documentation.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Take a tour of the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Select panel sets and arrange panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Change background and Stage size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Change your view of the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

View the Library panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Add graphics to the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Add video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

View object properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Add video control behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Use the Movie Explorer to view the document structure. . . . . . . . 22

Test the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Find help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Before taking this lesson, we recommend that you read Getting Started with

Flash, to learn about the Flash workspace. To access this guide, select

Help > Getting Started with Flash.