Parts and Functions of Macromedia Flash
Parts and Functions of M. F.
The Menu Bar is aimed to make easier the access to different program features. It is similar to any other web or graphic designer program, although it has some particularities. Let's see the main Submenus you can access to:
File: It allows creating, opening and saving archives… Import has exceptional power; it inserts to the current movie nearly all types of archives (sounds, videos, images and even Flash movies) or the Publication Settings option from which you can modify the characteristics of the publications. It also enables to configure the printing pages, print them, etc…
Edit: It is a classic menu that allows you to Cut, Copy, Paste… objects or as well images or frames; it also allows you to customize some of the most common options of the program.
View: Apart from, typical zooms, it allows you to move the frames and scenes. It also includes the possibility to create a grid and some guides. These ones can be selected from submenu Grid and Guides from where you can configure its options.
Insert: It permits you to insert objects into the movie, as well as new frames, layers, actions, scenes…
Modify: The option Transform permits one to modify the graphics existing in the movie, and the option Draw Bitmap allows to modify current graphics in vector maps (this theme will be studied further). Other options allow you to modify characteristics of the animation elements Smooth, Optimize or of the same movie (Layer, Scene…).
Text: Its contents affect the edition of text. It will be further handled in more details
Commands: Allows administrating the Commands (group of saved sentences that allows to emulate what user can introduce to the edition environment) that we had saved in our animation, to obtain other news from the Macromedia page or execute what we already have.
Control: From here you modify the properties of the movie reproduction Play, Rewind, Test Movie ....
Window: In addition to the classical options of distributing the
The Menu Bar is aimed to make easier the access to different program features. It is similar to any other web or graphic designer program, although it has some particularities. Let's see the main Submenus you can access to:
File: It allows creating, opening and saving archives… Import has exceptional power; it inserts to the current movie nearly all types of archives (sounds, videos, images and even Flash movies) or the Publication Settings option from which you can modify the characteristics of the publications. It also enables to configure the printing pages, print them, etc…
Edit: It is a classic menu that allows you to Cut, Copy, Paste… objects or as well images or frames; it also allows you to customize some of the most common options of the program.
View: Apart from, typical zooms, it allows you to move the frames and scenes. It also includes the possibility to create a grid and some guides. These ones can be selected from submenu Grid and Guides from where you can configure its options.
Insert: It permits you to insert objects into the movie, as well as new frames, layers, actions, scenes…
Modify: The option Transform permits one to modify the graphics existing in the movie, and the option Draw Bitmap allows to modify current graphics in vector maps (this theme will be studied further). Other options allow you to modify characteristics of the animation elements Smooth, Optimize or of the same movie (Layer, Scene…).
Text: Its contents affect the edition of text. It will be further handled in more details
Commands: Allows administrating the Commands (group of saved sentences that allows to emulate what user can introduce to the edition environment) that we had saved in our animation, to obtain other news from the Macromedia page or execute what we already have.
Control: From here you modify the properties of the movie reproduction Play, Rewind, Test Movie ....
Window: In addition to the classical options of distributing the