Flash MX 2004 at Your Fingertips
Chapter One
Interface Overview
WHEN YOU OPEN FLASH for the first time, you will most likely see a central white drawing
area ("the Stage") surrounded by all sorts of panels and buttons. It may seem a little daunting,
but Flash has only four main areas: the Stage, Timeline, toolbars, and panels.
Flash is available in Windows and Macintosh flavors. The only real major difference between
these is that Windows supports dockable panels; otherwise, getting to know Flash in
Windows is the same as getting to know it on the Macintosh.
In this chapter, we introduce the main areas of the Flash interface, looking at how the interface
works in general.
* 1.1 Overview: Creating Flash animations
* 1.2 Overview: Testing Flash content
* 1.3 Overview: Publishing Flash content
* 1.4 Windows authoring interface
* 1.5 Windows test interface
* 1.6 Working with panels (Windows)
* 1.7 Mac OS X authoring interface
* 1.8 Mac OS X test interface
* 1.9 Working with panels (Mac)
* 1.10 Interface objects
1.1 Overview: Creating Flash Anima ... read full excerpt from Flash MX 2004 at Your Fingertips: Get In, Get Out, Get Exactly What You Need ebook
