Step 12. Creating a Live Preview Movie for a Flash MX Component
In this last step, we will explain how to create a Live Preview movie, which
allows a component user to see in the authoring environment what the component
will look like when the movie is published. While the designer changes parameters,
those changes are propagated to a customizable swf running in the authoring
environment, and we make that swf look like the component and obey the set parameters.
This is a great feature that will make it easier to place components and design
your movies better.
Jonathan Kaye, PhD, is the President and CTO of Amethyst Research LLC, an award-winning interactive design and engineering firm specializing in the creation of online device simulations. He and David Castillo are the authors of "Flash for Interactive Simulation: How to Construct and Use Device Simulations", to be published by Delmar Thomson Learning in November, 2002 (the accompanying web site will be www.FlashSim.com).