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Dear
Friend,
Hello, & welcome back to FIREWIRE,
your friendly guide to the exciting world of web-design
& web-solutions! In the previous newsletter of Flash
5 Tutorial Series we had discussed about Symbol Properties,
Effect Panel, Instance Panel, Sound Panel, Library, Common
Library, Clip Parameters and Smart Clips. Let’s continue
with Window Properties, Movie Explorer, Preview &
Bandwith, Status, Controller, Save, Save as, Import, Export,
Publish, Output Window & Debugger. |
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NEW WINDOW, CASCADE & TILE
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New window helps us to create many copies of same
window. Similar to creating duplicate copies for the
movie window.
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Cascade
will arrange the latest duplicate copy first and
original copy at the last. Cascading works under
the format of last in first and first in last.
Tile
will help us to view all the copies of the window
in one single view. This helps to view all in
one window while comparing pictures, size of objects,
tiling the window can be used.
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Movie
explorer is used to explore the objects of the
movie. Each and every object in the movie can
be explained with the help of explorer palette.
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It
shows the hierarchy of objects. From scene till
symbols, it explores. The hierarchy goes like
this.
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Scene
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Layer |
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Frame |
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Object within a frame |
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Symbol
definitions. |
To
hide some objects on the scene, edit it with the
settings of movie explorer.
Will
show, if there is any text option.
Show the symbols (Movie clips, button and graphics)
Displays the action script, if there is any script
Show the video, sounds and bitmaps files on the
movie
Displays the frames and the layers available within
the movie file.
Movie explorer settings help to either display
or to hide the particular object on the explorer.
By selecting or deselecting the option, the corresponding
object can be set in the explorer window.
Find
text box helps us to find the object from the
movie explorer. It acts like a search engine within
the movie explorer.
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A
faster way to check the sequence of the frame
is to play the movie. There are two ways to play
the movie.
| Test
Movie |
| From
the menu control, select test movie and it
will take us to the preview window. |
| Shortcut
keys |
| Press
Ctrl + Enter simultaneously and file will
be automatically exported to flash player
and plays the animation. |
| Bandwidth |
| Bandwidth
profiler helps us to determine the information
and capacity of the file so that we can calculate
the speed and time. |
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File
size ,determine how quickly the movie can
be downloaded. We can have a customized
setting in Bandwidth Profiler for different
Modem speed.
There
are six different modem speeds and the file
can be tested with those speeds. To customize
the speed, select the customize options
and make changes.
There
are two different options available in Bandwidth
Profiler:
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In
Streaming graph mode, width of each
bar shows how long it takes to download.
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In
Frame by Frame mode, each and every
frame details are shown. |
Each
and every bar on the profiler graph refers
a frame the animation can be stopped by
dragging the arrow on the top of the profiler
graph. Generally, bandwidth profiler is
used to see how the frames are played and
to control the downloading time of the movie.
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