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Using the screen presentation templates (Flash Professional only)

The screen presentation templates included with Flash MX Professional 2004 use screens to make it easier for you to create a professional-looking slide presentation. You can add new slides to the outline and place text, graphics, imported media, and components on those slides to add to content.

After adding slides, you can use the Behaviors panel to add transitions between slides. Flash provides some sample slides with transitions to help you get started.

After you've customized your presentation, preview it by selecting Control > Test Movie from the application menu.

Slides come with built-in navigation. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the navigation buttons that are part of the template's design to move forward and backward through your presentation.

Creating slides with the screen presentation templates (Flash Professional only)

The Screen Outline pane shows thumbnails of the slides that appear sequentially in your presentation. There are four ways to add new slides to a presentation.

To create a slide:

  1. Create a new file using one of the screen presentation templates.
  2. Do one of the following to add new slides to the presentation:
    • Select Insert > Screen.
    • Press Enter.
    • Click the Pus (+) button in the header of the Screen Outline pane.
    • Right-click to open the context menu, then select Insert Screen.
  3. You can create slides that share graphical content such as logos by inserting nesting slides and placing the shared content on the parent slide. For example, the content that appears on the slide labeled Presentation appears on all the slides in the presentation. Insert nested screens by right-clicking in the Screen Outline pane and selecting Insert Nested Screen.

For more information on using slides and the outline pane, see Working with Screens (Flash Professional Only).

Adding transitions to the screen presentation templates (Flash Professional only)

After you've customized the content of your presentation, you can add animated transitions that help illustrate your points. You use the Behaviors panel to add transitions to your presentations.

To add transitions to a screen presentation:

  1. Select the screen for which you'd like to add a transition.
  2. If the Behaviors panel isn't visible, select Window > Development Panels > Behaviors.
  3. Click the Add button (+) in the Behaviors panel and select Screen > Set Transition.
  4. Customize your transition in the dialog box. For information about each transition style available, see Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviors (Flash Professional only).
  5. Click OK once you've finished designing your transition.
  6. Select the event on which you'd like your transition to start. The most common events for slide transitions are onShow, when the slide becomes visible, or onHide, when the slide is hidden.

For more information on behaviors, see Controlling instances with behaviors.

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