Introduction to new features of Flash MX (II.)

Flash MX is either a user interface (UI) or a tool to use. This is not the past flash of the last century. The new Flash built-in action scripts (action script) can make you enthusiastic, confident, the improvement of the action script development environment and the enhancement of the function is by no means lightweight. See what new and improved features FLASHMX are. When it comes to interface features, we have to start with the new palette, the smart clips are replaced by the new drag components, so there's no smart clips, and if you want to take the new check box, List box Scrolls bar as a Flash5 smart clip, but in FMX these " Smart clips "are replaced by the concept of components, in the FMX in order to do a text scrolling effect, you do not need to write some action script code like in the Flash5, you just drag from the palette scrolls bar can be, It's like dragging a form (form) from a toolbar in a Dreamweaver, just as we do not need to care about the internal structure of the form, we do not need to care about the internals of the component, as we see in the following figure, you can create idiomatic components like scroll bar, You can create your own components, and you can share components with others, and of course, if you want, you can sell the components you create. This can achieve similar function of things "curing" for the component for resource sharing, can greatly improve our work efficiency. The next improvement is that the Action dialog box (panel) and the Properties dialog box (panel) are added at the bottom of the interface, and when you work with these dialog baskets, you can click on them to expand/close (just like the properties panel in Dreamweaver). Dialog baskets can display text attributes (static, dynamic) fill color, timeline properties-If your selection tool has selected the timeline, the Properties dialog box can be edited for each property parameter. These functions are not previously, you just use it, less than one weeks you will like it, after using the FMX, I do not want to open the FLASH5. I am not with any irrational emotions, I really quickly adapt to the FMX. Now you think I'm trying to hide the instructions from the action Script panel, that's wrong. The enhancement of the action Script development environment and the function is a major improvement, the Action Script panel enhances the display code line, the code coloring display, the code looks for replaces and so on function, overall FMX's action script development environment is more like the big program development environment. Action scripts are object-oriented programming ideas based on "objects" and "events," so that code is easier to write and easier to read, while there are only "objects" and "events" in Flash. Now let's look back at some of the enhancements to the design features, first of all, the tools in the newly added tool bar, we see the new freeform tool (free Transform Tool), and the following options are twisted (distort) and set (envelope) tools, Set tools can be used in any graphics, text, components, except bitmaps and video, the distort tool is a better tool, but it can also be called Perspective (Perspective) tool, which can be used as 3D mapping and perspective objects, but not bitmap and video operations, Now you can add perspective to the object without having to freehand, Illustrator, Corel draw and other drawing software. Another added feature is that now we can mask the movie clips, you can also use movie clips to mask, which is not available in Flash5, which gives us a great opportunity to do complex masking effects, and I think this new feature will be a very popular design element in the future. The layer (layer) allocation management is also a newly added feature, layer management can be added to layers on the layer, such as we put several layers of the text into a class, in a layer folder, it seems to be in the Flash5 library (lirary) can add folders, The component (symbol) associated with the attribute is placed in a folder so that it is easy to manage and clear, moving the layer folder to move the layer contained within the layer. FMX can automatically load JPG graphics and MP3 sound files, rather than generator, or import video files.