User manual MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH

[. . . ] Getting Started with Flash Trademarks 1 Step RoboPDF, ActiveEdit, ActiveTest, Authorware, Blue Sky Software, Blue Sky, Breeze, Breezo, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Database Explorer, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashCast, FlashHelp, Flash Lite, FlashPaper, Flash Video Encoder, Flex, Flex Builder, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JRun, MacRecorder, Macromedia, MXML, RoboEngine, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboPDF, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Studio MX, UltraDev, and WebHelp are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. [. . . ] If you clear guides in documentediting mode, all the guides in the document are cleared. If you clear guides in symbol-editing mode, all the guides in all symbols are cleared. To create custom guides or irregular guides, you use guide layers. For more information, see "Using guide layers" on page 66. To display or hide the drawing guides: Select View > Guides > Show Guides. If the grid is visible and Snap to Grid is turned on when you create guides, guides will snap to the grid. N OT E 70 Flash Basics To turn snapping to guides on or off: Select View > Snapping > Snap to Guides. Snapping to guides takes precedence over snapping to the grid in places where guides fall between grid lines. N OT E NO TE To move a guide: 1. 2. Make sure rulers are visible by selecting View > Rulers. With the Selection tool, click anywhere on the ruler and drag the guide to the desired place on the Stage. To remove a guide: With guides unlocked, use the Selection tool to drag the guide to the horizontal or vertical ruler. For information on locking and unlocking guides, see the following procedure. To lock guides: Select View > Guides > Lock Guides. You can also use the Lock Guides option in the Edit Guides (View > Guides > Edit Guides) dialog box. For more information, see the following procedure. To set guide preferences: 1. Select View > Guides > Edit Guides and do any of the following: For Color, click the triangle in the color box and select a guide line color from the palette. Select or deselect Show Guides to display or hide guides. Select or deselect Snap to Guides to turn snapping to guides on or off. Select or deselect Lock Guides to lock or unlock guides. For Snap Accuracy, select an option from the pop-up menu. If you want to remove all guides, click Clear All. Clear All removes all guides from the current scene. If you want to save the current settings as the default, click Save Default. 2. Click OK. Getting to know the workspace 71 To clear guides: Select View > Guides > Clear Guides. If you are in document-editing mode, all guides in the document are cleared. If you are in symbol-editing mode, only guides used in symbols are cleared. Using the grid When the grid is displayed in a document, it appears as a set of lines behind the artwork in all scenes. You can snap objects to the grid, and you can modify the grid size and grid line color. To display or hide the drawing grid, do one of the following: Select View > Grid > Show Grid. Press Control+'' (quote) (Windows) or Command+'' (quote) (Macintosh). To turn snapping to grid lines on or off: Select View > Snapping > Snap to Grid. To set grid preferences: 1. 2. Select View > Grid > Edit Grid. For Color, click the triangle in the color box and select a grid line color from the palette. Select or deselect Show Grid to display or hide the grid. [. . . ] Components are implemented in Flash as movie clips with their own internal ActionScript code. You use the Components panel to set the properties of the component. This tells Flash how you want the component to behave. For the FLVPlayback component, you will tell Flash the location of the FLV file you want to play, and how you want the playback controls to appear. 142 Tutorial: Building a Video Player (Flash Professional only) To add a media component: 1. [. . . ]