Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies- P21: Welcome to Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies. Our goal when writing this book was to share our enthusiasm for Flash and, at the same time, demystify the application. You can do so many things with Flash that it becomes mind boggling. The minibooks in this reference are designed to take the boggle out of your mind and show you how to use Flash to create Web banners, animations, and other delights. We also delve into the topics of ActionScript and Flash video. | Chapter 1 Testing and Debugging a Flash Project In This Chapter Testing a movie Previewing a movie Debugging a movie fter you slave and toil to create a compelling Flash movie you have F Ito make sure that it works as expected. Otherwise you ll end up with copious amounts of egg on your face. And if you created the Flash project for a client after the client wipes the egg off his face you ll get a nasty phone call hopefully not from that person s lawyer. So no matter how large or small your project you need to test and retest your project to make sure that it performs as planned. Testing a Movie When you re creating a Flash project you should test the project after you make a major change. 1 r . When you test often you can detect a mistake or an inconsistency right after you create a new animation or create a new ActionScript rather than . after you do a couple of hundred other things tWlJ to the document and have no idea how to track down the rotten smell in the state of Denmark. You can perform quite a few tests in Flash authoring mode. This option is handy when you don t want to wait for Flash to publish the document as an SWF file and play it in another window. You can test a movie in authoring mode by choosing one of these methods Drag the playhead to scrub the Timeline. This option comes in handy when you want to check a few frames of animation or preview the manner in which a sound is synchronized to the Timeline. 578 Testing a Movie in Another Window Choose Controls Play or press Enter or Return to play the movie in movie editing mode. This action plays the Timeline in its entirety unless you use ActionScript to stop the movie on one or more keyframes. Choose Controls Rewind to rewind the movie to the first frame after playing the movie. Choose Control1 -Go To End to navigate to the last frame in the movie. Choose Controls Enable Simple Frame Actions to preview simple frame actions such as stop and goto in Flash authoring mode. Choose Controls Enable Simple
