Creating a New Movie


The first thing you need to do when you want to create a new game or Web site is to create a new movie. To do so, use the File pull-down menu and select New. A menu appears allowing you select the type of document you want to create. This menu has several templates available as well as some new choices that we will see throughout this book. For now, select the first option, Flash Document. This creates a new file with the .fla extension. This is a Flash source file, which is your primary file type for using Flash. The new movie you just created contains essentially nothing. It has no art or scripts; it's simply a blank canvas for you to create content on.

Tip  

It is often more convenient to use the keyboard instead of the pull-down menus . Nearly every action in Flash can be executed with a keyboard shortcut ”and generally much more quickly than with the menus. Because keyboard shortcuts differ between platform and even between developers on the same platform, I will not be giving keyboard shortcut examples in the text. Instead, I encourage you to use Flash's built in keyboard shortcut organizer. If you use the Edit pull-down menu and select Keyboard Shortcuts, you will see a dialog box that has several options. If you have trouble figuring out this feature, simply click the Help button in the lower-left corner to access the Flash documentation on the subject.




Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Programming
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Programming (Premier Press Game Development)
ISBN: 1592000363
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 161

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