Basic Flash Knowledgebase Index

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Basic Flash Knowledgebase

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Introduction to Flash

What is Flash ?
Flash FAQ's
Opening Flash
Creating a new flash document
The flash file and the swf file
The flash browser plugin
How the swf files works

The Flash Environment
The Flash Window

The Stage
The Grid
The Ruler
Snapping

The Time line
The Properties tab
The Toolbars
The Panels

The Graphic symbol
The Movie clip symbol
The Button symbol

The Editing Toolbar

The selection tool
The subselection tool
The free-transform tool
The gradient transform tool tool
The line tool
The lasso tool
The pen tool
The oval tool
The rectangle tool
The polygon tool
The pencil tool
The brush tool
The paint bucket tool
The sample tool
The eraser tool

Panels

The align panel
The color panel
The library
The properties panel
The actions panel

The Timeline
The timeline
The play head
What is a "Frame"?
What is Frame rate
What is a Keyframe ?
What is a "Scene"
What is a "Layer"
What is onion skinning?

Definitions

What is a symbol
What is an "Instance"
What is a "graphic"
What is a "movie clip"
What is a "button"

Text

Text in flash
Fonts in flash
Symbol font in flash
Formatting options
Text Kern

Objects In Flash

What is a symbol ?
What is a movie clip ?
What is a tween ?
What is the alpha channel ?
What are color channels?
Filters in flash
Object parameters

Movie clips

Naming movie clip instances
The difference between movieclip and graphic symbols

Graphics

Animated graphics

Buttons

The "button" object
Button states
object behavior
simple buttons

Easing

Eeasing knowledgebase
Ease In
Ease Out
The easing curve