User manual MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH

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[. . . ] Navigate to the FLV file that will replace the current clip, and click Open. Controlling video playback using behaviors Video behaviors provide one way to control video playback. Behaviors are prewritten ActionScript scripts that you add to a triggering object to control another object. Behaviors let you add the power, control, and flexibility of ActionScript coding to your document without having to create the ActionScript code. Video behaviors let you play, stop, pause, rewind, fastforward, show, and hide a video clip. To control a video clip with a behavior, you use the Behaviors panel to apply the behavior to a triggering object, such as a movie clip. You specify the event that will trigger the behavior (such as releasing the movie clip), select a target object (the video that is affected by the behavior), and when necessary, select settings for the behavior, such as the number of frames to rewind. The triggering object must be a movie clip. It is not possible to attach video playback behaviors to button symbols or button components. N OT E 302 Working with Video The following behaviors come with Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8, and are used to control embedded video: Behavior Play Video Stop Video Pause Video Rewind Video Purpose Plays a video in the current document. Rewinds the video by the specified number of frames. Parameters Instance name of target video Instance name of target video Instance name of target video Instance name of target video Number of frames Instance name of target video Number of frames Instance name of target video Instance name of target video Fast Forward Video Fast-forwards the video by the specified number of frames. Shows the video. For lessons on working with video, see "Tutorial: Building a Video Player (Flash Professional only)" in Getting Started with Flash. To add and configure a behavior: 1. In the Behaviors panel (Window > Behaviors), click the Add (+) button, and select the desired behavior from the Embedded Video submenu. In the dialog box that appears, select the video you want to control with the behavior. For more information, see "Using absolute and relative target paths" on page 39. If required, select settings for the behavior parameters and click OK. Default event and actions for the behavior appear in the Behaviors panel. In the Behaviors panel under Event, click On Release (the default event) and select a mouse event from the menu. If you want to use the On Release event, leave the option unchanged. 6. Controlling video playback using behaviors 303 Using the FLVPlayback component (Flash Professional only) With Flash Professional 8 media components, you can quickly and easily add Flash video and playback controls to your documents. Then, using cue points, you can synchronize your video with animation, text, and graphics. For example, you can create a Flash presentation that has video playing in one area of the screen while text and graphics appear in another area. A cue point placed in the video triggers an update to the text and graphic, letting them remain relevant to the content of the video. New to Flash Professional 8 is FLVPlayback, a component designed to let you implement video quickly and successfully, while providing a richer feature set than the components available in previous versions of Flash. Using the FLVPlayback component, you can play video delivered by progressive streaming video over HTTP from a Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS) or from Flash Communication Server (FCS). The FLVPlayback component does the following: Provides a set of prefabricated skins with which to customize playback controls and the look and feel of the user interface Lets advanced users create their own custom skins Provides cue points that you can use to synchronize your video with the animation, text, and graphics within your Flash application Provides live preview of customizations Maintains a reasonably sized SWF file for easy download The FLVPlayback component is the display area in which you view video. [. . . ] The Extension Manager installs files to the User configuration folder. User Level Configuration Directories The User configuration folders are: File/folder name missfont. map ActionsPanel Files used to customize the Actions panel: · ActionsPanel. xml: configuration XML for contents of toolbox · AsCodeHints. xml: configuration XML for Code Hinting · AsColorSyntax. xml: configuration XML for Color Syntax highlighting · Custom Actions: Files used to add custom actions to the toolbox. JSFL and XML files that define JavaScript commands available via the Commands Menu. XML files that define data types for use in the databinding schema panel. XML files that define encoders for use in the databinding schema panel. [. . . ]