Flash MX

This is the “Introduction to Flash MX” tutorial that I created.

The Work Space

The Stage - This is where you draw, import artwork, add text and sound.

Toolbox - Tools you can use to modify, create, and place text and graphics.

Toolbox - Modifiers

• Arrow Tool - allows us to select and move items on stage.
• Subselection Tool - alls us to select and adjust anchors and move line segments.
• Line Tool - creates line segments.
• Lasso Tool - surrounds areas of objects to select.
• Pen Tool - Sets corner anchors with a click and curved anchors with a click and drag.
• Text Tool - creates editable text. Properties box will allow selection of font, size, and justification
• Oval Tool - creates ovals and circles. Also has fill and stroke attributes.
• Rectangle Tool - creates rectangles. Also has fill and stroke attributes.
• Pencil Tool - draw freeform shapes as a pencil.
• Brush Tool - draw freeform shapes as a paintbrush.
• Free Transform Tool - allows us to scale, rotate, or skew a selected object.
• Fill Transform Tool - fills object with color or gradient.
• Ink Bottle Tool - applies the choosen stroke attributes display to the object selected on the stage.
• Paint Bucket Tool - fills object with choosen color.
• Eyedropper Tool - picks up fill or stroke attributes and Ink Bottle is used to apply to a new object.
• Eraser Tool - removes portion of the fill/shape of an object as you drag over it.

Toolbox - View

• Hand Tool - clicking and dragging moves the position of the View of the stage.
• Zoom Tool - clicking and dragging moves the magnification of the stage.

Toolbox - Colors

• Stroke Color - select color to be used for stroke.
• Fill Color - select color to be used for fill.
• Black and White - select color to be used for stroke.
• No Color - select color to be used for fill.
• Swap Color - select color to be used for stroke.

Toolbox - Options -
The options displayed here are specific

to the tool that is currently selected.

The Timeline - This organizes and controls the Flash animations’s content over time (in frames).