Getting Started With Flash 5

Getting Started With Flash 5

To begin, open Flash 5. You will be presented with the screen shown here:

The upper left corner of the screen displays the Tool palette, which contains tools you can use to create or modify graphics and text. You select a tool by clicking on it. Tool modifiers for the selected tool display below the Tool palette. You use modifiers to set tool options.

The Timeline appears in the upper potion of the screen. You use the Timeline line to lay out the sequence of a movie.

The stage displays in the center of the screen. You create your movie on the Stage.

Movie Properties

You start creating your movie by setting the Frame Rate, Dimensions, Background Color, and Ruler Units.

Frame Rate-The speed of the movie

Dimension-The size of the Stage.

Background Color-The color of the Stage.

Ruler Units-The unit of measure the ruler displays.

You set these properties in the Movie Properties dialog box.

To set the properties for the movie you are going to create:

Choose Modify > Movie from the menu. The Movie Properties dialog box will open.

Type 5 in the Frame Rate field.

Type 400 px in the Width field.

Type 400 px in the Height field.

Click on the Background color box and set the Background color to white.

Select Pixels from the drop-down menu in the Ruler Units field.