Specifications

Examine the completed FLA file 179
Examine the completed FLA file
As you examine the finished version of an application you’ll create, you will
also look at the Flash workspace.
In subsequent sections, you’ll go through the steps to create the application
yourself.
Open the authoring document
It’s helpful to analyze the completed authoring document, which is a FLA
file, to see how the author designed the illustration and understand what
you are going to create.
The files for this tutorial are located in the Samples and Tutorials folder in
the Flash application folder. For many users, particularly in educational
settings, this folder is read-only. Before proceeding with the tutorial, you
should copy the entire gradient tutorial folder to the writable location of
your choice.
On most computers, you will find the Gradients tutorial folder in the
following locations:
■ In Windows: boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples
and Tutorials\Tutorial Assets\Creating Graphics\Gradients.
■ On the Macintosh: boot drive/Applications/Macromedia Flash 8/
Samples and Tutorials/Tutorial Assets/Creating Graphics/Gradients.
Copy the Gradients folder to another location on your hard disk that you
have write-access to. In the Gradients folder, you will find a Flash file called
gradients_finished.fla. Double-click the file to open it in Flash. You now
see the completed tutorial file in the Flash authoring environment.