MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH - Introduction; What is Flash

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Introduction
Welcome to Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash
Professional 8. Flash provides everything you need to create and deliver
rich web content and powerful applications. Whether you’re designing
motion graphics or building data-driven applications, Flash has the tools to
produce great results and deliver the best user experience across multiple
platforms and devices.
This guide is designed to introduce you to Flash. The tutorial in this guide
leads you through the process of creating a simple Flash application.
This chapter contains the following sections:
What is Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
What you can do with Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Making a simple Flash document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
About Flash Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
What’s new in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Installing Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
What is Flash
Flash is an authoring tool that designers and developers use to create
presentations, applications, and other content that enables user interaction.
Flash projects can include simple animations, video content, complex
presentations, applications, and everything in between. In general,
individual pieces of content made with Flash are called applications, even
though they might only be a basic animation. You can make media-rich
Flash applications by including pictures, sound, video, and special effects.
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