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The new features in Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 provide greater productivity, enhanced rich media support, and streamlined publishing.
Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 include many features designed specifically for streamlining previously complex tasks, thereby improving productivity:
Timeline effects You can apply Timeline effects to any object on the Stage to quickly add transitions and animations such as fade-ins, fly-ins, blurs, and spins. For more information, see Using Timeline effects.
Behaviors With behaviors, you can add interactivity to Flash content without writing a line of code. For example, you can use behaviors to include functionality that links to a website, loads sounds and graphics, controls playback of embedded videos, plays movie clips, and triggers data sources. For more information, see Controlling instances with behaviors.
Accessibility support in the authoring environment Accessibility support in the Flash authoring environment provides keyboard shortcuts for navigating and for using interface controls, letting you work with these interface elements without using the mouse. For more information, see Accessibility in the Flash authoring environment.
Updated templates Flash includes updated templates for creating presentations, e-learning applications, advertisements, mobile device applications, and other commonly used types of Flash documents. For more informations, see Using templates.
Integrated Help system The new Help panel provides in-context reference, ActionScript reference, and lessons in the Flash authoring environment. For more information, see Using the Help panel.
Spell checker The spell checker searches your text for spelling errors. For more information, see Checking spelling.
Document tabs Tabs for each open document are displayed at the top of the workspace so that you can quickly locate and switch between open documents. For more information, see Using document tabs for multiple documents (Windows only).
Start page The Start page puts commonly used tasks at your fingertips, in a central page. For more information, see Using the Start page.
Find and Replace The Find and Replace feature locates and replaces a text string, a font, a color, a symbol, a sound file, a video file, or an imported bitmap file. For more information, see Using Find and Replace.
New rich media support features enhance the quality of rich media presentations.
High-fidelity import High-fidelity import lets you import Adobe PDF and Adobe Illustrator 10 files and preserve accurate vector representation of your source files. For more information, see Importing Adobe Illustrator, EPS, or PDF files.
Video Import wizard The Video Import wizard simplifies video encoding and offers encoding presets and clip editing. For more information, see Using the Video Import wizard.
Small font size rendering Small font sizes are now rendered more crisply. For more information, see Creating text.
New publishing features make it easy to detect Flash Player versions, improve accessibility, and simplify localization.
Flash Player detection You can now publish SWF files with associated files that detect if a user has a specified Flash Player version. You can configure your published files to direct users to alternate files if they don't have the specified Flash Player. For more information, see Configuring publish settings for Flash Player detection.
Publish profiles You can create profiles to save your publish settings, then export the profiles and use them across projects to publish consistently under different conditions. For more information, see Creating a publish profile.
Accessibility and components New accessibility features and a new generation of components offer tab ordering, tab focus management, and improved support for third-party screen readers and closed-caption programs.
Globalization and Unicode Enhanced globalization and Unicode support allows multilanguage authoring using any character set. For more information, see Creating Multilanguage Text.
Strings panel The new Strings panel makes it easier to publish Flash content in multiple languages. With the click of a few buttons, Flash creates external XML files for each specified language. For more information, see Creating Multilanguage Text.
Security The Flash Player 7 enforces a stricter security model than previous versions of the Flash Player. Exact domain matching requires that the domain of the data to be accessed match the data provider's domain exactly in order for the domains to communicate. HTTPS/HTTP restriction specifies that a SWF file using nonsecure (non-HTTPS) protocols cannot access content loaded using a secure (HTTPS) protocol, even when both are in exactly the same domain. For more information see Flash Player security features.
Flash Player performance has been greatly improved, and ActionScript has been enhanced to comply with ECMA script language specifications. Also, Flash now tracks interactions so that they can be converted to reusable commands.
Flash Player runtime performance Player runtime performance has been improved by a factor of two to five times for video, scripting, and general display rendering.
ActionScript 2 ActionScript 2 is an object-oriented language that follows the ECMA script language specification and supports inheritance, strong typing, and the event model. For more information, see ECMA-262 Edition 4 compliance (you may need to update your Help system to see this information).
History panel The History panel tracks your actions so that they can be converted to reusable commands. For more information, see Using the History panel.
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