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Acknowledgments

Director: Erick Vera

Project Management: Julee Burdekin, Erick Vera

Writing: Jay Armstrong, Jody Bleyle, Mary Burger, Francis Cheng, Jen deHaan, Stephanie Gowin, Phillip Heinz, Shimul Rahim,

Samuel R. Neff

Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato

Editing: Mary Ferguson, Mary Kraemer, Noreen Maher, Antonio Padial, Lisa Stanziano, Anne Szabla

Production Management: Patrice O’Neill

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Christopher Basmajian, Aaron Begley, John Francis

Second Edition: June 2004

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Working with Flash Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Creating or opening a document and setting properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Using document tabs for multiple documents (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Saving Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

About adding media content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About creating motion and interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using the library to manage media assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Multiple Timelines and levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Nested movie clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using absolute and relative target paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Working with scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using the Movie Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using Find and Replace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Undo, Redo, and Repeat menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using the History panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Saving documents when you undo steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Automating tasks with the Commands menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

About customizing context menus in Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About the links menu in Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Speeding up document display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Optimizing Flash documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Testing document download performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Printing from the Flash authoring tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

CHAPTER 2: Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating and managing projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Troubleshooting remote folder setup (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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CHAPTER 3: Using Symbols, Instances, and Library Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Types of symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

About controlling instances and symbols with ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Creating symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Creating instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Creating buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Enabling, editing, and testing buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Editing symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Changing instance properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Controlling instances with behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Breaking apart instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Getting information about instances on the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Copying library assets between documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using shared library assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Resolving conflicts between library assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

CHAPTER 4: Working with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Property inspector . . . . . . . 76

Working with solid colors and gradient fills in the Color Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Modifying strokes with the Ink Bottle tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Applying solid, gradient, and bitmap fills with the Paint Bucket tool. . . . . . . . . . . 79

Transforming gradient and bitmap fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Copying strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Locking a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Modifying color palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

CHAPTER 5: Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

About vector and bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Flash drawing and painting tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About overlapping shapes in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Drawing with the Pencil tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Drawing straight lines, ovals, and rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Drawing polygons and stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Using the Pen tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Painting with the Brush tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Reshaping lines and shape outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Erasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Modifying shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Specifying drawing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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CHAPTER 6: Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

About Unicode text encoding in Flash applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

About font outlines and device fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Creating text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Creating scrolling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Setting text attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Creating font symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

About transforming text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Timeline effects with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Breaking text apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Linking text to a URL (horizontal text only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Preserving rich text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Substituting missing fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Controlling text with ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Creating scrolling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

CHAPTER 7: Using Imported Artwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Placing artwork into Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Working with imported bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

CHAPTER 8: Working with Graphic Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Grouping objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Moving, copying, and deleting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Stacking objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Transforming objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Flipping objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Restoring transformed objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Aligning objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Breaking apart groups and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

CHAPTER 9: Creating Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using Timeline effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Tweened animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Frame-by-frame animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Layers in animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Creating keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Representations of animations in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Frame rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Extending still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Distributing objects to layers for tweened animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Tweening instances, groups, and type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Tweening motion along a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

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Tweening shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Using shape hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Creating frame-by-frame animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Editing animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using mask layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

CHAPTER 10: Working with Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

About file formats for imported video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

About the Sorenson Spark codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Using the Video Import wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Importing Macromedia Flash Video (FLV) files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Importing linked QuickTime video files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

About playing back external FLV files dynamically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Changing the properties of a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Controlling video playback using behaviors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

About controlling video playback using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Exporting FLV files from video-editing applications (Flash Professional only) . . . 192

Playing FLV video clips with media components (Flash Professional only) . . . . . 196

CHAPTER 11: Working with Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Importing sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Adding sounds to a document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Adding sounds to buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Using sounds with Sound objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

About accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Using the sound-editing controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Controlling sound playback using behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Starting and stopping sounds at keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

About the onSoundComplete event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Compressing sounds for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Using sounds in Flash documents for mobile devices

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Creating a Flash Lite sound file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

CHAPTER 12: Working with Screens (Flash Professional Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Understanding screen-based documents and the

screen authoring environment (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Using the Screen Outline pane (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

About undoing and redoing commands with screens

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Using the screens context menu (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating a new screen-based document (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Adding screens to a document (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Naming screens (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Setting properties and parameters for a screen (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . 223

About adding media content to screens (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

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Selecting and moving screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviors

(Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Find and Replace with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

About using the Movie Explorer with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . 230

About using Timelines with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

About using ActionScript with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

About using components with screens (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Accessibility in the Flash screens authoring environment (Flash Professional only)233

CHAPTER 13: Creating Multilanguage Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Selecting an encoding language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Fonts for Unicode-encoded text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Authoring multilanguage text with the Strings panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Creating documents with multilanguage text without using the Strings panel . . . 248

Using external text or XML files that are not Unicode encoded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

CHAPTER 14: Data Integration (Flash Professional Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Creating a simple application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Workflows for using the data components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Data binding (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Data connectivity (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Data management (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Data resolution (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Advanced topics in data integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

CHAPTER 15: Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Playing your Flash SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

About publishing secure Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Publishing Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

About publishing Flash Lite documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using publish profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

About HTML publishing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Customizing HTML publishing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Editing Flash HTML settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Previewing the publishing format and settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

About configuring a web server for Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

CHAPTER 16: Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Exporting Flash content and images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

About export file formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver UltraDev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

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CHAPTER 17: Creating Accessible Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Worldwide accessibility standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Macromedia Flash Accessibility web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Understanding screen reader technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Viewing and creating tab order and reading order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Creating a tab order index for keyboard navigation in the Accessibility panel (Flash

Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

About animation and accessibility for the visually impaired. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Using accessible components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Creating accessibility with ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Accessibility for hearing-impaired users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Testing accessible content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

CHAPTER 18: Printing from SWF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Controlling printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Supported printers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Using the ActionScript PrintJob class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Building a print job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Starting a print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Printing frames independent of the PrintJob class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Changing the printed background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Using frame labels to disable printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Printing from the Flash Player context menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Publishing a document with printable frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

CHAPTER 19: Creating E-learning Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Getting started with Flash learning interactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

About Flash learning interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Including a Flash learning interaction in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Changing the appearance of a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Testing a quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Configuring learning interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Adding, naming, and registering assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Setting feedback options for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Setting Knowledge Track options for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Setting navigation options for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Setting control button labels for a learning interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Tracking to AICC- or SCORM-compliant learning management systems. . . . . . 414

Extending learning interaction scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

APPENDIX A: Using Samples and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Using samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Using templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

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APPENDIX B: XML to UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Layout tag summary for XML to UI dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Control tag summary for XML to UI dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

<column> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

<columns> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

<dialog> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

<grid> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

<hbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

<row> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

<rows> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

<separator> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

<spacer> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

<vbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

<button> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

<checkbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

<choosefile> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

<colorchip> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

<flash> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

<label> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

<listbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

<listitem> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

<menulist> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

<menupop>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

<menuitem> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

<popupslider> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

<property> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

<radiogroup>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

<radio> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

<targetlist> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

<textbox> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

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