Flash MX 2004
Never before has it been so easy to create a fully dynamic web site containing rich media.
The entire site – including database integration and animated effects – can be created in by clicking and dragging using advanced components and behaviors.
This allows us to be much more productive in the limited amount of time we usually have available for development.
The real changes in Flash MX 2004 lie under the hood.
Some tasks that used to require programming in the Actions panel have now been automated.
Timeline Effects eliminate some of the dirty work involved in writing blurs and the like, while Behaviors relieve some of the drudgery of programming interactive controls.
There are also new premade components and support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which should allow you to blend Flash and HTML more smoothly.
New timesaving and usability features include an improved video-import wizard, which now allows you to edit or trim imported video so that you don't have to fire up a separate editor.
There's also a spelling checker to minimize the danger of creating a visually spectacular site with embarrassing errors.
Key Features
- Timeline Effects and Behaviors
- Extensibility Layer and Third-Party Extensionst
- Improved Runtime Performance
- PDF and EPS File Support
- Alias Text
- Productivity Features
- Accessible Content
- Globalization Tools
- ActionScript 2.0
- Jump-start Features
Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with new Timeline Effects and Behaviors. Create common timeline animations with one-step Timeline Effects, reducing the need for excessive keyframing. Reduce the need to script simple tasks such as media and navigation controls by using behaviors.
Third-party developers can extend Macromedia Flash with significant new capabilities.
Create charts and graphs, animate text effects, deploy high-resolution interactive bitmaps, add raster effects, and design 3D graphics, all without leaving Macromedia Flash.
Create accessible content using new Microsoft Access Accessibility-compliant components for screen readers and keyboard access systems. Take advantage of improved support for dynamic accessibility scripting by using ActionScript to place accessible tags during runtime.
Leverage full Unicode support to use, render, and save any font and encoding supported by your operating system, including double-byte character sets.
Simplify and manage multilingual content localization and deployment with the Strings panel.
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