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| Introduction | |
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| What Makes Flash a Special Web-Design Tool? | |
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| About Flash | |
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| Flash MX: What's New? | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| About Flash Player | |
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| The Flash Authoring Tool | |
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| Understanding Flash Basics | |
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| Touring the Flash Authoring Environment | |
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| About the Timeline | |
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| About the Stage | |
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| Using Grids | |
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| Using Rulers and Guides | |
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| Working with Snapping | |
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| About the Toolbox | |
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| Viewing Graphics at Various Magnifications | |
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| About Panels | |
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| Working with Grouped Panels | |
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| Using Custom Panel Sets | |
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| About the Property Inspector | |
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| Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Creating Simple Graphics | |
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| Touring the Toolbox | |
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| Using the Line Tool | |
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| Setting Stroke Attributes | |
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| Setting Fill Attributes | |
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| Using the Oval and Rectangle Tools | |
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| Using the Pencil Tool with Assistance | |
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| Controlling the Amount of Assistance | |
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| Using the Pencil Tool Without Assistance | |
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| Using the Pen Tool: Straight Lines | |
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| Using the Pen Tool: Curved Line Segments | |
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| Using the Paint Bucket | |
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| Using the Brush Tool in Normal Mode | |
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| Using the Text Tool | |
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| Working with Vertical Text | |
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| Setting Text Attributes via Menu | |
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| Setting Character Attributes via the Property Inspector | |
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| Setting Paragraph Attributes | |
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| Breaking Apart Text | |
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| Modifying Simple Graphics | |
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| Setting Selection Preferences | |
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| Selecting Lines with the Arrow Tool | |
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| Selecting Fills with the Arrow Tool | |
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| Using a Selection Rectangle | |
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| Using the Lasso Tool | |
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| Selecting Partial Elements | |
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| Deselecting Elements | |
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| Repositioning Elements Manually | |
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| Repositioning Elements Numerically | |
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| Basic Editing Tasks: Cut, Copy, Paste | |
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| Editing Existing Elements with Assistance | |
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| Moving End Points with the Arrow Tool | |
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| Moving Points with the Subselection Tool | |
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| Reshaping Lines | |
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| Reshaping Curves with the Arrow Tool | |
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| Reshaping Curves with the Subselection Tool | |
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| Converting, Removing, and Adding Points | |
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| Reshaping Fills | |
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| Changing the Size of Graphic Elements | |
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| Reorienting Graphic Elements | |
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| Distorting Graphic Elements | |
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| Changing the Envelope of Selected Elements | |
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| Modifying Strokes | |
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| Using the Eraser Tool in Normal Mode | |
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| Using the Faucet Modifier | |
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| Modifying Fill Colors | |
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| Creating Solid Colors: Color Mixer Panel | |
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| Creating Solid Colors: Color Picker | |
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| Creating New Gradients | |
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| Creating Color Sets | |
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| Putting Gradients to Work | |
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| Modifying Applied Gradients | |
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| Applying Attributes of One Graphic Element to Another | |
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| Converting Lines to Fills | |
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| Complex Graphics on a Single Layer | |
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| When Lines Intersect Lines | |
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| When Lines and Fills Interact | |
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| When Shapes Interact | |
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| Understanding Grouping | |
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| Working with Grouped Elements | |
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| Controlling the Stacking Order | |
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| Editing Groups | |
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| Aligning Elements | |
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| Using the Complex Paint Modes with the Brush | |
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| Applying Gradients to Multipart Shapes | |
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| Using the Eraser Tool with Multiple Shapes | |
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| Graphics on Multiple Layers | |
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| Touring the Timeline's Layer Features | |
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| Creating and Deleting Layers | |
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| Creating and Deleting Layer Folders | |
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| Controlling Layers and Folders | |
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| Setting Layer Properties via the Timeline | |
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| Controlling Layer Visibility in the Timeline | |
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| Controlling the Stacking Order of Layers | |
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| Organizing Layers in Folders | |
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| Working with Graphics on Different Layers | |
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| Cutting and Pasting Between Layers | |
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| Distributing Graphic Elements to Layers | |
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| Working with Guide Layers | |
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| Working with Mask Layers | |
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| Saving and Reusing Graphic Elements | |
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| Understanding the Library Window | |
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| Understanding Library-Window Views | |
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| Understanding Library Hierarchy | |
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| Converting Graphics to Symbols | |
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| Creating New Symbols from Scratch | |
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| Using Symbol Instances | |
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| Modifying Symbol Instances | |
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| Swapping One Symbol Instance for Another | |
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| Editing Master Symbols | |
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| Duplicating Master Symbols | |
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| Deleting Master Symbols | |
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| Converting Symbol Instances to Graphics | |
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| Copying Symbols Between Movies | |
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| Creating Shared Libraries | |
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| Using Font Symbols | |
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| Using Non-Flash Graphics | |
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| Importing Non-Flash Graphics | |
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| Using the Clipboard to Import Graphics | |
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| Turning Bitmaps into Vector Graphics | |
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| Editing Bitmaps with Flash's Tools | |
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| Using Bitmaps As Fills | |
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| Modifying Bitmap Fills | |
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| Frame-by-Frame Animations | |
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| Using the Timeline | |
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| Creating Keyframes | |
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| Creating In-Between Frames | |
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| Selecting Frames | |
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| Manipulating Frames in One Layer | |
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| Removing Frames | |
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| Making a Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation | |
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| Previewing the Action | |
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| Smoothing the Animation by Adding Keyframes | |
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| Using Onion Skinning | |
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| Editing Multiple Frames | |
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| Understanding Frame Rate | |
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| Varying the Speed of Animations | |
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| Animation with Motion Tweening | |
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| Creating a Bouncing Ball with Motion Tweening | |
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| Setting the Tween Property | |
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| Ending a Motion Tween | |
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| Adding Keyframes to Motion Tweens | |
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| Animating Color Effects | |
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| Animating Graphics That Change Size | |
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| Rotating and Spinning Graphics | |
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| Moving Graphics in Straight Lines | |
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| Moving Graphics Along a Path | |
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| Orienting Graphics to a Motion Path | |
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| Changing Tween Speed | |
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| Animation with Shape Tweening | |
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| Creating a Bouncing Ball with Shape Tweening | |
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| Morphing Simple Lines and Fills | |
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| Shape-Tweening Multiple Shapes | |
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| Transforming a Simple Shape into a Complex Shape | |
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| Creating Shapes That Move As They Change | |
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| More-Complex Animation Tasks | |
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| Understanding Scenes | |
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| Manipulating Frames in Multiple Layers | |
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| Animating Multiple Motion Tweens | |
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| Animating Shape Tweens in Multiple-Shape Graphics | |
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| Reversing Frames | |
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| Combining Tweening with Frame-by-Frame Techniques | |
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| Saving Animations As Graphic Symbols | |
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| Using Animated Graphic Symbols | |
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| Saving Animations As Movie-Clip Symbols | |
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| Using Movie-Clip Symbols | |
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| Using Animated Masks | |
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| Interactivity with Simple Frame Actions | |
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| Touring the Actions Panel | |
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| Choosing a Scripting Mode | |
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| Customizing the Actions Panel | |
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| Organizing Actions | |
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| Choosing Actions | |
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| Adding Actions to a Frame | |
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| Editing the Script | |
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| Assigning Frame Labels and Comments | |
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| Creating Named Anchors | |
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| Controlling Movie Playback | |
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| Previewing Actions in Action | |
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| Interactivity with Objects | |
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| Previewing Button and Movie-Clip Actions in Test Mode | |
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| Creating a Basic Rollover Button | |
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| Previewing Buttons in Movie-Editing Mode | |
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| Creating Buttons That Change Shape | |
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| Creating a Fully Animated Button | |
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| Adding Actions to Buttons | |
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| Choosing a Button's Event Handler | |
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| Using Multiple Mouse Event Handlers | |
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| Triggering Button Actions from the Keyboard | |
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| Creating an Invisible Button | |
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| Creating a Button with Multiple Hot Spots | |
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| Adding Actions to Movie Clips | |
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| Making Movie Clips Act Like Buttons | |
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| Adding Sound and Video | |
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| Using Sounds in Flash | |
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| Importing Sounds | |
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| Organizing Sounds | |
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| Adjusting Sound-Layer Height | |
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| Adding Sounds to Frames | |
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| Adding Sounds to Buttons | |
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| Using Event Sounds | |
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| Using Start Sounds | |
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| Using Streaming Sounds | |
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| Stopping Sounds | |
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| Looping Sounds | |
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| Editing Sounds | |
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| Importing Video | |
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| Using Embedded Video Clips in Your Movie | |
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| Updating Video Clips | |
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| Introducing Complex Interactivity | |
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| Changing the Properties of Objects | |
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| Creating Scriptable Text Objects | |
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| Manipulating Variables | |
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| Creating an Invisible Variable | |
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| Using Conditional Actions | |
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| Loading New Files | |
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| Controlling Nested Timelines | |
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| Using fscommand | |
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| Using Components | |
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| Using the Movie Explorer | |
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| Delivering Movies to Your Audience | |
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| Preparing Your Movie for Optimal Playback | |
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| Publishing and Exporting | |
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| Working with Flash Player Settings | |
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| Publishing HTML for Flash Player Files | |
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| Controlling Movie Placement in the Browser | |
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| Using HTML for Alternative Images | |
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| Using Other Publish Settings | |
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| Creating Projectors | |
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| Setting MIME Types on Your Server | |
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| Exporting Flash to Other Formats | |
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| Printing from Flash | |
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| Printing from Flash Player | |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Shortcuts for Commands | |
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| Shortcuts for Accessing Tools and Manipulating Elements | |
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| Index | |