MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH - Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only)

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CHAPTER 2
Working with Projects (Flash
Professional Only)
In Macromedia Flash Professional 8, you can use Flash Projects to manage multiple document
files in a single project. Flash Projects allow you to group multiple, related files together to
create complex applications.
You can use version-control features with projects to ensure that the correct file versions are
used during editing, and to prevent accidental overwriting. To use version control, you must
first add files to a project. For information on version control, see “Using version control with
projects (Flash Professional only)” on page 73.
Flash Projects include the following features:
■ A Flash Project can contain any Flash or other file type, including previous versions of
FLA and SWF files.
■ You can add an existing file to a Flash Project. Each file can be added to a particular Flash
Project only once. Files can be organized in nested folders.
■ A Flash Project is an XML file with the file extension .flp–for example, myProject.flp. The
XML file references all the document files contained in the Flash Project.
■ A Flash Project can contain another Flash Project (FLP file).
■ Changes that you make to a project are updated to the FLP file immediately, so the file is
always current. (You do not need to do a Save File operation.)
■ You can create a Flash Project in the Flash Professional 8 authoring environment, or you
can create the XML file for a Flash Project in an external application.
■ Flash Projects use UTF-8 text encoding. All filenames and folder names in a Flash Project
must be UTF-8 compatible.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Creating and managing projects (Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Troubleshooting remote folder setup (Flash Professional only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75