Over the last several years, Flash has gained the respect of programmers as a tool to develop applications. The majority of these applications are used in Web browsers and loaded over the Internet. There are a few amazing software packages designed to assist you in creating Flash applications designed to run outside the browser as a standalone executable file (on Windows). These programs let you add functionality to your Flash applications that you couldn't get from authoring the file from within Flash. In this lesson, you'll learn about some of these programs, and experience working with one of them.
In this lesson, you'll use a third-party tool to create a Flash game with a uniquely shaped playback window.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
In this lesson, you will:
Use FSCommands to extend the functionality of a Flash application
Enhance a Flash executable file by using a third-party tool
Configure movie functionality using HTML and FlashVars
APPROXIMATE TIME
This lesson takes approximately one and one half hours to complete.
LESSON files
Media Files:
Lesson20/Media/background.gif
Lesson20/Media/bullet.gif
Lesson20/Media/contactus.gif
Lesson20/Media/leftsidebar.gif
Lesson20/Media/placeholder.gif
Lesson20/Media/resources.gif
Lesson20/Media/resourcesdivider.gif
Lesson20/Media/welcomeheader.gif
Lesson20/Media/whatsnew.gif
Lesson20/Media/mask.bmp
Lesson20/Media/highest_score.txt
Starting Files:
Lesson20/Assets/Game1.fla
Lesson20/Assets/NavBar1.fla
Lesson20/Assets/home1
Lesson20/Assets/news1
Lesson20/Assets/contact1
Completed Projects:
Game1.exe
Game1.swf
Game2.fla
NavBar1.swf
NavBar2.fla
home2
news2
contact2