Index

P

P (Pen tool), 127–130

Page Setup dialog box (Windows), 109

Paint Behind mode (Brush tool), 123

Paint Bucket tool (K)

applying fill with, 269

description of, 227

gap problems and, 436

Gap size option, 272

highlight point of gradient fill, setting, 276

Lock Fill option, 272–274

uses of, 270–272

Paint Fills mode (Brush tool), 122

Paint Inside mode (Brush tool), 123–124

Paint Normal mode (Brush tool), 122

Paint Selection mode (Brush tool), 123

painting with white, 271

palette, custom, importing, 214–217

Palette settings (Publish Settings dialog box), 732

Palette Type settings (Publish Settings dialog box), 731–732

panels. See also Actions panel; Behaviors panel; Color Mixer panel; Library panel

Accessibility, 696–697

Align, 153–154

Color Swatches

Color Mixer panel and, 217

importing custom palettes, 214–217

options menu, 212–213

overview of, 131–132, 210–212

Web-safe color and, 204

Component Inspector

Bindings tab, 1145–1146, 1149, 1153

description of, 1113–1114

Schema tab, 1145–1145, 1148, 1152

Components

description of, 569–570

Flash Basic 8

compared to Flash Pro 8, 1112

opening, 1110

using, 1111

Debugger

breakpoint and, 1089, 1090–1092

displaying and modifying variables, 1086–1087

editing and displaying movie properties, 1089

overview of, 1085–1086

stepping through code using breakpoints and, 1092–1093

Watch list, 1087–1088

docking, 72

Filters, 365–366, 371–373

Find and Replace, 301–302

Frames (Fireworks), CDBC16

grouping and stacking, 71–72

Help

accessing, 794

search in, 4

showing or hiding, 66

using, 794–795

Using FlashðWorking with Projects, 48

History

Clear History command, 304

Copy Steps control, 303–304

History View setting, 304

overview of, 302–303

Replay Steps control, 303

Save As command, 304–305

using, 158

History (Fireworks), creating Fireworks command with, CDBC11–CDBC12

Info, 154–155

making active, 73

managing, 70–73

Output

description of, 1081

List Objects and List Variables commands, 1084–1085

trace() action and, 1081–1084

Project (Professional version)

adding file to project, 53–54

adding new file to project, 56

committing and editing files, 54–55

description of, 22, 48–49

establishing project and site, 49–53

publishing entire project, 57

site definition in, 48

Properties

Blend mode menu, 382–383

Edit button, 341

Join menu, 115–116

Scale menu for strokes, 133

stroke height and, 132–133

Scene, 88–89

Tools

controlling, 77

customizing, 79–80

docking, 68

Object Drawing option, 112

Options area, 78–79

reading, 78

selection tools, 111

Swatches pop-up, 211

Transform, 156–157, 285, 370–371

undocking and unstacking, 72–73

window compared to, 68–69

panning

long pans, 451

multiplane pans, 452

walking character and, 441

Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color (Eiseman), 209

paragraph break, inserting, 1016

parameters (arguments)

of Button component, 1116–1117

of CheckBox component, 1117–1118

of ComboBox component, 1118–1119

of component, modifying, 1115

Flash element

defining, CDBC66–CDBC67

editing, CDBC69–CDBC70

of FLVPlayback component instance, 569–570

of List component, 1119–1120

of RadioButton component, 1120–1121

of ScrollPane component, 1121–1122

of TextArea component, 1123

of Tween class, 1194–1195

of UIScrollBar component, 1124

Parameters dialog box (Dreamweaver), CDBC56, CDBC75

Parameters tab

Component Inspector panel, 1113

Property inspector, 232, 585, 1111–1112, 1115

parentheses[()]

action name and, 630

code syntax and, 630

Password option (Publish Settings dialog box), 716

Paste command (Movie Explorer Options menu), 196

Paste in Center command (Edit menu), 158

Paste in Place command (Edit menu), 158

Paste Special command (Edit menu), 158

Pasteboard feature, 86, 179, 451

pasting

bitmap, 517

frames, 103, 672

path

absolute and relative, 659–660

combining, CDBC33–CDBC34

converting text into, 541, CDBC31

curved, CDBC36–CDBC37

in Flash 4 or earlier movies, 661

modifying and adjusting, 147

simplifying, CDBC34–CDBC35

PDF (Portable Document Format), 510, CDBC23

Pen tool (P), 127–130

percentLoaded() method (JavaScript), 767–769

perception, manipulating, 315–320

permutation, 314

Perry, Bill (developer relations), 1215

personality, adding to animation, 313–314

phoneme, 442, 444–445, 446–447

Photoshop (Adobe)

building layered backgrounds in, 450

color management in, CDBC18

creating Color Table in, 215–216

file format, 510

preparing bitmap in, CDBC17

PHP, 1167

pianoKeys Movie Clip, 667–668

PICT file format, 510, CDBC23, CDBC25–CDBC27, CDBC45

Pin toggle (Library panel), 164

pitch, CDBA81

Place instance on stage option (Embedding screen), 552

placement of code, 1077–1078

placing externally loaded Flash movie, 951–952

planning project

designing for usability, 41–45

Gallery component, 1166–1170

importance of, 1099

overview of, 33–34

Phase I, establishing concept and goals

approving final concept and budget, 40

defining problem, 34–35

goals, determining, 35–36

producing solution, 36–40

Phase II, producing, testing, and staging presentation, 46–48

resources for, 40

play action, 636

Play command (Library), 169

Play Once setting for Graphic symbol, 173

Play Sound behavior, 482–483, 671

Play Sound dialog box, 673

Playback options (Publish Settings dialog box)

GIF tab, 729–730

HTML tab, 726

Player 8

description of, 11, 21

detection capabilities, 5

enhancements to, 6–7

player, stand-alone

creating projector using, 773–774

description of, 771

distributing, 774

fscommand() actions for, 774–776

Playhead or Current frame indicator (Timeline window), 97

PlayPauseButton component, 572

plug-in. See also specific plug-ins

from CD-ROM, installing and using, 1210–1211

description of, 739

PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format

description of, 510, 511, 515, CDBC23

file, importing as Movie Clip, CDBC8

PNG tab (Publish Settings dialog box), 733–735

points

imported vector graphics and, 539

Stroke Style dialog box and, 133

on waveform, CDBA84

Polygon mode (Lasso tool), 144–145

PolyStar tool

description of, 80

Property inspector and, 69

uses of, 116–118

Portable Document Format (PDF), 510, CDBC23

Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format

description of, 510, 511, 515, CDBC23

file, importing as Movie Clip, CDBC8

positioning

element on Stage, 623

Movie Clip instance, 844–845

movie in Dreamweaver, CDBC55

PowerPoint (Microsoft), 26

Preferences dialog box, Text category, 233

preloader for external assets, using, 975–983

preloading

description of, 932

Flash movie with components, 939–946

steps for, 933–939

Presets option (Filters panel), 371–373

press event, 642

Pressure toggle (Brush tool), 125

prevFrame action, 635

Preview Mode command (Document window), 90

Preview tabs (Document window, Fireworks), CDBC9

previewing animated Flash element, CDBC68–CDBC69

prevScene action, 635

primitive shape, 112, 171

Print command (Movie Explorer Options menu), 197

Print Margins dialog box (Mac), 109

printContent() function, 924–925

printing

with ActionScript, 921–926

options, 109–110

PrintJob API, 23, 843

PrintJob class, 921

Privacy tab (Flash Player Settings), 781–782

problem, defining, 34–35, 790

procedure, 872. See also functions

process flowchart, 37, 38

prod folder, 49

Professional version. See also Project panel

benefits of, 61, 62

Component Inspector panel in, 1113

components included in, 1107

Components panel in, 1112

enhancements to, 5–6

Flash Lite authoring and, 718–722

studio-level production work and, 7

Profile features (Publish Settings dialog box), 736–738

programming. See also code

database front end component and, 16–17

game, 1049–1050

ProgressBar component

download progress and, 987–990

preloading and, 939

progressive download, 23, 480, 931–932

progressive .flv file, SMIL file and, 596–600

project

content for each area, creating, 680–684

creating, 675–676

determining properties of, 677

fade effect, adding, 692–694

goals of, 676

making accessible, 695–698

mapping and organizing, 676–677

mapping presentation areas to keyframes, 677–680

marker for active section, creating, 681–682

named anchors, adding, 694–695

navigation elements, adding

browsing video items, 687–689

text buttons for menu, creating, 684–687

scrolling text, creating, 689–692

slide show, adding to, 682–684

project categories

data-driven application, 30

data-driven presentation, 30

interactive presentation, 30

linear presentation, 29–30

project management, 6

Project panel (Professional version)

adding file to project, 53–54

adding new file to project, 56

committing and editing files, 54–55

description of, 22, 48–49

establishing project and site, 49–53

publishing entire project, 57

site definition in, 48

Project Settings dialog box, 52–53

projector

creating, 735, 772–774

description of, 3, 23, 771

distributing, 774

fscommand() actions for, 774–776

Toggle Full Screen mode behavior and, 776–778

properties

ColorTransform class, 896, 900

description of, 658, 816

_droptarget, 849–853

filters and, for controlling color, 375–376

_framesloaded property, 932

of Movie Clip symbol, 824–825, 826–828

text field

scroll, 1030–1031

text rendering, 1031–1037

_totalframes property, 932

vPosition, 692

Properties command

Layers contextual menu, 107

Library, 168

Properties panel

Blend mode menu, 382–383

Edit button, 341

Join menu, 115–116

Scale menu for strokes, 133

stroke height and, 132–133

Properties tab

Debugger panel, 1089

Property inspector, 1115

Property inspector

Color menu, 181, 376, 379

description of, 66, 69–70

in Dreamweaver, CDBC53–CDBC55

Edit button, 486, 487, 524

Effect menu, 487–489

Filters tab, 229, 232, 265–266

formatting text with, 1018–1019

Input text field settings, 803

Motion tween options, 344–345

Movie Clips, naming, 656

Parameters tab, 232, 585, 1111–1112, 1115

Properties tab, 1115

Render text as HTML button, 234

Sound attributes, 469

Swap button, 524

Swatches pop-up, 211

Sync option, 446, 472–473

text attributes, setting

application Text menu commands, 241–242

editable text options, 243–244

overview of, 238

Static text options, 238–239

vertical text options, 242

text field settings and, 1000, 1002

Tween menu, 333, 336

Property menu, 346, 349

Protect from Import option (Flash (SWF) Format Options dialog box), CDBC42

Protect from import option (Publish Settings dialog box), 11, 715

proxy server, loading external file through, 956

Proxy.as file, 1171–1172

Publish button (Publish Settings dialog box), 772–773

Publish Settings dialog box

Compress Movie option, 11

Flash tab, 485, 489–490, 714–717, 751

Formats tab, 55, 712–713, 777

GIF tab, 729–732

HTML tab, 722–728, 751–752

JPEG compression settings, 525, 732–733

PNG tab, 733–735

Profile feature, 736–738

Protect from import option, 11

Publish button, 772–773

Window Mode setting, 727, CDBC55–CDBC56

publishing

entire project, 57

shared library movie file, 994

publishing Flash movie

overview of, 711–712

profiling feature, 736–738

projector, creating, 735

Publish Preview submenu, 736

Publish Settings dialog box

Flash tab, 714–717

Formats tab, 712–713

GIF tab, 729–732

HTML tab, 722–728

JPEG tab, 732–733

PNG tab, 733–735

Publish submenu, 736

QuickTime Publish Settings, 736