Flash Basics

What is important to remember

• You can download 30-days evaluation version from Macromedia website
• Stage is the area you will place all visible content of the Flash file
• Timeline displays set of frames each of those represent a content of the movie at the certain moment.
• Properties Inspector is the panel which shows and allows to change parameters of the object you are currently working on or the whole movie.
• Tools Panel contains drawing tools and their options
• Actions Panel serves to write the custom code to manipulate the movies and it's objects
• Library keeps all the symbols you can utilize many times. Common Libraries contains symbols supplied with Flash software
• Flash creates design file with .fla extension and executable file with .sfw extension

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