Brief introduction of flash8.0 working environment

Flash to convenient, perfect, comfortable animation editing environment, by the vast majority of animation enthusiasts love, in the production of animation, the first introduction to the work environment, including some basic methods of operation and work environment organization and arrangements.

1. Start Page

To run Flash 8, the first thing to see is "Start Page", where the Start page places common tasks in one page, including "Open recent projects," "Create new projects," "Create from Templates," "Expand," and quick access to official resources. As shown in Figure 1-10.

Figure 1-10 Start Page

If you want to hide the start page, click to select no longer show this dialog box, and then click OK in the dialog box that pops up.

If you want to display the start page again, you can select Edit | Preferences command, open the Preferences dialog box, and then set the startup option to show Start page in the general category.

2. Work window

On the Start page, select Flash document under Create new project so that you can start Flash8 's working window and create a new movie document. As shown in Figure 1-11.

Figure 1-11 Flash 8 Working window

The work window for Flash 8 consists of a title bar, a menu bar, a main toolbar, a document tab, an edit bar, a timeline, a workspace and a stage, a toolbox, and various panels.

The top of the window is the title bar, from left to right, the Control menu button, the software name, the currently edited document name, and the window control button.

Below the title bar is the menu bar, which provides almost all of the Flash 8.0 command entries in its Drop-down menu, which can be performed to meet the different needs of the user.

Below the "menu bar" is the "main toolbar", which allows you to quickly use the control commands of Flash 8.0.

Below the main toolbar is the document tab, which is primarily used to toggle the document currently being edited, with the Document control button on the right. Right-click on the document tab, and you can use commonly used file control commands in the pop-up shortcut menu. As shown in Figure 1-12.

Figure 1-12 Document Tabs