leave the main tool panel to the left and the timeline on top.īefore we explain some tools components I suggest that you learn how to arrange your Desktop.įirstly, we'd like to show how to display additional panels (tools and libraries). You can arrange the Flash Desktop in various ways (see below), but for the rest of this tutorial we will try to stay with a somewhat stable environment, i.e. This annotated screenshot already conveys an idea of the kinds of tools you get, but we will introduce them later. Your initial desktop configuration should look a bit like the screenshot below (I am not so sure about the right-hand side panel area). When you first open a the Flash Desktop you will not see all the tools you later will use. Now enter the Flash Desktop working environment and read on.ģ Layout and configuration of the Flash Desktopĭefinition: By Flash Desktop (Desktop in short) we mean the whole CS3 authoring environment that you can see when you work on some Flash animation. Action Script 3.0 does not support this, but it's probably a bad idea to work with something that is outdated. create some ActionScript code without programming). The older ActionScript 2 version would let you use some built-in behaviors (i.e. To start learning the Flash desktop, we now suggest to click on Flash File (ActionScript 3.0) since this the most recent Flash standard. If you tick Don't show again you won't see the welcome screen anymore, but the same options are available through the File Menu. Open a "recent" item either through the File Menu or the button.Use File->Open to open a *.fla file you are working on.To start working with a Flash file, you may either use the File Menu or select an item within the welcome screen.