Featured FLA
» Author: Bugra Ozden
» Title: Skatalog v9 - product catalog
» Description: Create your product catalog easly and publish on your website or Create your image gallery, documents list, portfolio. Fully XML Driven
» More by Bugra Ozden
Featured Site
» Posted in the Flash Kit Links section
» Title: Creative DW Image Show PRO
» Description: Creative DW Image Show PRO is a Dreamweaver extension which enables the user to create multimedia presentations. It combines the features of the popular Creative DW Image Show with the ability to add professional text effects to slides (similar to After Effects). The product is very customizable: the user can choose the duration of the transition effects, the slide motion start and end position, zoom and panning type for both images and texts.
It would help a great deal if your component users could see approximately
what the triangle will look like on the stage while they are setting the triangle
properties. This will help them design more efficiently because they will not
have to waste time in the cycle of adjusting values, testing the movie, adjusting
values, testing the movie, etc.
Flash MX introduces the Live Preview feature, which does exactly that. Essentially,
you create a separate swf (like the custom UI), and you tell Flash to use that
swf to display your component when it is placed on the stage (during authoring).
You would typically make the swf to appear exactly like the component, based
on the property values.
The triangle on the stage is a Live Preview movie we made.
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).