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GETTING STARTED WITH
FLASH® LITE™ 1.x
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Getting Started with Flash® Lite™ 1.x
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What’s new in Flash Lite authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Guide to instructional media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Typographical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Chapter 1: Flash Lite Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
About Flash Lite technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Flash Lite 1.x availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About Flash Lite content types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Workflow for authoring Flash Lite applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Flash Lite authoring features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using Flash Lite document templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hello World Flash Lite application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 About the stand-alone Flash Lite player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 2: Creating a Flash Lite Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Café application overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Viewing the completed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Creating the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Introduction
This manual provides an introduction to Macromedia® Flash® Lite™ 1.x from Adobe and describes how to test your content using the Adobe® Device Central CS3 emulator, which is part of Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional. The primary difference between using Flash Lite in Flash CS3 and in previous versions of Flash is that the Flash Lite emulator is now part of Device Central. See the Device Central documentation for more information.
What’s new in Flash Lite authoring
Flash includes the following new features to help developers create Flash Lite applications:
Adobe® Device Central emulator Adobe Device Central includes an emulator that lets you preview your content as it will function on an actual device. The emulator can configure itself to mimic the features available on any supported device. The emulator also provides debugging information that alerts you to potential problems and incompatibilities on the target device.
Device Settings Adobe Device Central lets you select your test devices and Flash Lite content type. When you test your content in the Device Central emulator, you can choose the test device you want the emulator to mimic.
Device document templates Adobe Flash CS3 Professional includes document templates to let you quickly start creating content for specific devices and content types.
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Guide to instructional media
The Flash Lite documentation package includes the following media to help you learn how to create Flash Lite applications:
■Getting Started with Flash Lite 1.x provides an overview of Flash Lite 1.x technology and developing Flash Lite content for mobile devices. It also includes a step-by-step tutorial for creating a Flash Lite 1.x application.
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Developing Flash Lite 1.x Applications is a comprehensive guide to creating Flash Lite content, and includes instructions for testing your applications in Adobe Device Central.
Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript Language Reference describes all the ActionScript language features available to Flash Lite developers, and provides example code.
Learning Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript complements the language reference and provides additional code examples and an introduction to writing Flash 4 ActionScript, upon which Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript is based.
■The Flash Lite sample applications at www.adobe.com/go/ learn_flt_samples_and_tutorials demonstrate key concepts and best practices discussed or mentioned in the written documentation.
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Additional resources
For the latest information on developing Flash Lite applications, plus advice from expert users, advanced topics, examples, tips, and other updates, see the Mobile and Devices Developer Center at www.adobe.com/ go/developer_flashlite.
For TechNotes, documentation updates, and links to additional resources in the Flash Lite developer community, see the Adobe Flash Lite Support Center at www.adobe.com/go/support_flashlite.
Typographical conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
■Italic font indicates a value that should be replaced (for example, in a folder path).
■Code font indicates ActionScript code.
■Code font italic indicates an ActionScript parameter.
■Bold font indicates a verbatim entry.
■Double quotation marks ("") in code examples indicate delimited strings. However, programmers can also use single quotation marks.
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CHAPTER 1 |
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Flash Lite Overview |
This chapter contains the following topics:
About Flash Lite technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Flash Lite 1.x availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About Flash Lite content types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Workflow for authoring Flash Lite applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Flash Lite authoring features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using Flash Lite document templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hello World Flash Lite application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About the stand-alone Flash Lite player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
About Flash Lite technology
Macromedia Flash Lite from Adobe is a version of Adobe Flash Player designed for mobile devices. It balances Flash features and capabilities with the processing power and configurations of today’s mass market mobile devices. There are currently two versions of Flash Lite 1: Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1, collectively known as Flash Lite 1.x. Flash Lite 1.x consists of the following features:
The core rendering engine The rendering engine handles all vector and bitmap rendering.
ActionScript interpreter Flash Lite supports the version of the ActionScript language used in Macromedia® Flash® Player 4 from Adobe, including many mobile-specific commands, such as getting time and date information from the device. This hybrid of Flash Player 4 ActionScript and commands with properties specific to Flash Lite is collectively called Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript.
For more information about Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript, see Flash Lite 1.x
ActionScript Language Reference and Learning Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript.
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Text and fonts Flash Lite supports static, dynamic, and input text fields. You can use fonts that are available on the device or embed font data in your published SWF file. For more information about using text and fonts in Flash Lite, see Chapter 2, “Working with Text and Fonts” in Developing Flash Lite 1.x Applications.
Sound Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1 both support device audio formats (such as MIDI or MFi). Flash Lite 1.1 also supports standard Flash audio. For more information about working with sound in Flash Lite, see Chapter 3, “Working with Sound” in Developing Flash Lite 1.x Applications.
Network connectivity Flash Lite 1.1 supports the ability to load external data and SWF files, as well as commands and properties for getting connectivity and HTTP request status information.
Device and platform integration Flash Lite provides access to several system features and commands, such as the ability to initiate phone calls and short message service (SMS) messages, get platform capability information, and get user input using the device’s standard input
dialog box.
Flash Lite 1.x availability
Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1 are supported on a variety of mobile devices that are available in a number of different geographic regions and markets. Some of these devices are available globally, while others are available only in specific geographic regions or from specific mobile operators. Some devices come with Flash Lite pre-installed from the device manufacturer or mobile operator, while on others it can be installed
after purchase.
For the most current list of devices that support Flash Lite, see the Supported Devices page located at www.adobe.com/go/ mobile_supported_devices/.
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