Flash
8 Interface
Flash
8 counts with the most handy and intuitive environment or working interface.
Moreover it has an advantage because it is similar to other Macromedia programs (Dreamweaver,
Freehand, Director), it makes easier to assuming Flash, and faster its management
and control. We will see this after opening Flash 8 for the first time:
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During the course we will work with the trial version of Flash 8. You can download this free version from here.
In the image you can see the interface, we can
see it just opening the Flash program. Flash will remember your preferences
and will open the program just as you left it last time when you used
it.
There
is a lack of some menus in this image. We will see all of them during this tutorial
even if some of them do not appear in the image above, that shows only the main parts of
the Flash interface. Let's see them:
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The
Menu
Bar
is
aimed to make easier the access to different program features. It is similar to
any other web or graphic designer program, although it has some particularities.
Let's see the main
Submenus you
can access to:
File: It allows creating, opening and saving
archives… Import has exceptional power;
it inserts to the current movie nearly all types of archives (sounds,
videos, images and even Flash movies) or the Publication Settings option from which you can modify the characteristics
of the publications. It also enables to configure the printing pages,
print them, etc…
Edit: It
is a classic menu that allows you to
Cut,
Copy, Paste…
objects
or as well images or frames; it also allows you to customize some of the most
common options of the program.
View: Apart
from, typical Zooms, it allows you to move the frames and scenes. It also includes
the possibility to create a grid and some guides. These ones can be selected from
submenu
Grid
and Guides from
where you can configure its options.
Insert: It
permits you to insert objects into the movie, as well as new frames, layers,
actions, scenes…
Modify: The
option Transform
permits
one to modify the graphics existing in the movie, and the option Draw
Bitmap
allows
to modify current graphics in vector maps (this theme will be studied further). Other
options allows you to modify characteristics of the animation elements Smooth,
Optimize or
of the same movie (Layer,
Scene…).
Text: Its
contents affect the edition of text. It will be further handled in more details
Commands: Allows
administrating the Commands (group of saved sentences that allows to emulate what
user can introduce to the edition environment) that we had saved in our animation,
to obtain other news from the Macromedia page or execute what we already have.
Control: From
here you modify the properties of the movie reproduction
Play,
Rewind, Test Movie ....
Window: In
addition to the classical options of distributing the windows, this menu includes
shortcuts to ALL the
Panels.
Help: From
here we can access to all the help that Macromedia offers to us, from the current
manual up to the Action Script, going through tutorials, guided lections etc…
In
order to practice these operations we suggest you to do
Exercise Create Guides 
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