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).