Adobe flash what is it?

Adobe flash is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring vector games animations and other 2-D animations. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisements and interactive multimedia content to web pages. How to get started Exporting swf files, Note the flash export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as does the publish command. Export movie exports a flash professional document to a still image format. Creates a numbered image file for every frame in the document, and exports the sound to a wave document (windows only). Code Snippets The code snippet panel is designed to make it easy for non-programmers to use simple action script 3.0 quickly. It lets you add Action Script 3.0 to your FLA file to enable common functionality. Using the code snippets panel does not require knowledge of action script 3.0. With code snippets pane you can: Terms Flash Player-Namley flash player ActiveX. The adobe flash player is software for viewing multimedia. Rich internet applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser on supported on mobile devices. Flash player runs swf files that can be created by the adobe flash authoring tool, by adobe flex or by a number of other macromedia and third party tools. Add code the effects the behavior of an object on the stage. Add code that controls the movement of the playhead in the timeline (CS5.5 Only ) add code that allows touch screen user interaction Add code snippets that add to the panel.

FLA- the FLA format is the master document format for flash projects. When you create a new flash file in the macromedia flash authoring program, you create a FLA file. This contains all the elements which make up the finished product, including graphics, animation instructions, action script codes, comments etc. FLA files can only be opened in flash not in flash player. The FLA file roughly equivalent to the PRPROJ file in adobe premiere. The FLA file does not play or execute. Instead, you export a SWF or EXE file which is what end users see. You can preview the resulting SWF at any time in the SWF file. SWf- The flash delivery file, the file that end users see. This is a compressed version of the FLA file which is optimized for viewing in the web browser, the stand alone flash player, or any other program that supports flash. The SWF files are completed complied and published files that cannot be edited with adobe flash. But with some flash decompiler, you can export Swf to re edit in FLA. EXE- Its another delivery file for Adobe flash, it is very similar to the SWF since they are both output files that end users see. You can export the flash arts you created as flash projectors. The advantage of the *.exe format is the type is that this type of file can be played on computers that done have flash player installed. AIR- Adobe integrated runtime, also known as adobe Air, is a cross-runtime environment developed by adobe systems for build rich internet applications (RIA) using adobe flash, Adobe flex, Html, and Ajax, that can be run as desktop applications or run on mobile devices. The runtime supports installable applications on Windows, lunex,Mac OS and some other mobile operating systems such as black berry Tablet OS, IOS and android or the BBC Iplayer desktop. FLEX- Apache Flex, formerly adobe flex is a software development kit (SDK) is the development of a cross platform rich internet applications based on the adobe flash platform. Initially developed by macromedia and then acquired by adobe systems, Flex was donated to the apache software foundation in 2011. SWC- An adobe SWC file is a package of precompiled Flash symbols and action script code that allows a flash or flex developer to distribute classes and assets, or

to avoid recompiling symbols and codes that will not change. SWF files can be generated by flash authoring tool, and by flex. They are sometimes referred as class libraries and cannot be directly executed by the flash player. SWT- Flash template. The SWT files are temptalized forms of SWF files.