Flash notes

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• What is an important benefit of creating movies in Flash? ____________________________________
• What is one way to keep file sizes small? ________________________________________________
• The original drawing is called a ______________ and the copied drawings are ___________________
• What is valuable about symbols is that you can change the __________________ such as color and shape
• Where does Flash store symbols? ___________________________________________
• What are the 3 categories of symbols?
  1. ____________________________ useful for ________________________________________
  2. ____________________________ useful for ________________________________________
  3. ____________________________ useful for ________________________________________
• You can create a graphic symbol by using the ____________________ command on the Insert menu
• Or, you can draw an object and use the ___________________________ command
• What do they suggest you name a graphic of a ball? ___________________
• List some things you CAN do with an instance of a symbol: _____________, _____________, __________
• List something you CANNOT do with an instance _____________________________________________

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• What are the 4 states of a button?
  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____

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• What is ActionScript? ________________________________________________________________
• Write the ActionScript code tot causes the movie to go to frame 10 and play the movie from there when the mouse is clicked
  
  
  
• Which panel in Flash lets you choose the ActionScript code you need? ___________________-