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When i started doing some user interface development in Flash for some Rich Internet Applications, I faced many challenges in terms of time, producing same type of graphical outputs for different projects. So decided to make them as components and to use them in Flash projects.
One of the component i developed during that time was this Tool Tip component. You will find this very useful in your Flash work. You can find the download link below.
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There are three types of symbols in Flash.
Movie clip 
This is a reusable piece of animation. They always have their own timelines for their animations. We can also script them separately for a particular action. When they are on the main timeline they will saw a nested animation in the preview. Components, which come with flash is also an extended version of movie clips. They have defined parameters with them.
Graphic 
This is a reusable static image, so they don’t use the timeline. It will always with the main Timeline and less in size.
Button 
This is a button, which will respond to our mouse clicks or any other input commands. This usually has its timeline, graphic and also some animation. I fell it is little bit extended version of the movie clip.
The best thing in symbol is, we can create that easily and we can reuse them as many times as we wish in the Flash movie. We can create symbols using AS 2 and AS 3 also. Every symbol will be a part of our library.
Instance
We can use the symbols in our stage and it will be called as an instance. The instance is really a copy of the symbol. We can edit the instance according to our need and it will not affect the symbol, which is in the library. But if you edit the symbol then all the instances will show that change.
Here you see some modified instances of the symbol.
This is enough about symbols. I will update this tutorial if I fell I missed something.
I am going to introduce you the latest version of the flash version, ADOBE FLASH CS3 PROFESSIONAL. If you have Macromedia Flash 8 or Macromedia Flash MX 2004, don’t worry it is almost same.
Timeline
I feel TimeLine is the main part of the Flash where we going to organize our work. This timeline is based on Layers, Frames and Time. In this screenshot there are four layers named “action”, “textbox”, “static text” and “back”. I always welcome a meaning full name for layers. In every layer you can use as many frames as you wish.
Property inspector
This property inspector helps us to customize the common attributes of our selection. The selection could be from stage or from Timeline. In this picture I selected a text field and it shows its common attributes such as font, size, width and height.
Library
In library panel we can store and organize our symbols, bitmaps, videos, sound clips and movie clips. We will use this panel commonly.
Actions panel
We can write our ActionScript code in an object or Frame using this panel. To active this panel we want to select one of this.
Ok. This is enough. These are the only panels we commonly use. There is lot more. Sometimes I will update this when I find some uncomfortable places in my writings.
I am very interested in Flash and really it is my hobby working on that. I started using flash from the version of 4. And it is huge now. And then I interested in Flex and now Apollo also. My scripiting interest is really started when I entered into the University some years ago. My computer Department Head Dr. Mahesan makes me interested in Java. My addiction in Flash makes me study AS with the help of Java. But I don’t say that i am an expert in Flash or Flex. But I have some ideas and great collection of tutorials from various websites to share with you. Also i am a continuous learner of these technologies and related technologies. So I think i can share my knowledge who wish to earn something from me. I am working on using my mother tounge in Flash and Flex and I can help anyone who wish to use their own languages in these technologies.
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