© W. Janczak for “Design & Systems 2”, September 2002 Flash MX Tutorial 3 Publishing 1. You can create a small animation or a navigation bar with interactive buttons (at the beginning modify the Stage size to appropriate dimensions) and save it in a Flash Player format. Create the animation, choose File>Export movie, select Format: Flash Player (title.swf). It is also called Shockwave Flash file format. Create a typical html page and use the EMBED tag: <EMBED SRC=”title.swf” WIDTH=.... HEIGHT=.....></EMBED>. Position the animation using standard tags such as ALIGN, VALIGN, HSPACE, VSPACE. This animation will play in the Netscape but not in the Explorer which recognizes the OBJECT tag. Also if the client’s computer does not have the Shockwave plug-in installed, the viewer will not see anything neither be warned that a plug-in is needed to see the page properly. 2. These problems are solved if you use Publish Settings in Flash. Choose Edit>Publish Settings. Select Flash and HTML. Use default HTML settings, Dimensions: Match Movie, Scale: Default. Click Publish or OK, then choose Edit>Publish. You will have three files: title.fla, title.swf and title.html. Open the html file in the browser and see the result. 3. You can modify “by hand” the html document created by Flash. Open the html document using SimpleText and modify: - background colour - width and height - use VSPACE and/or HSPACE and/or ALIGN tags to change the position of the animation on the page. 4. Use tables to position the animation. Use tags ALIGN (left, center, right), VALIGN (top, middle, bottom) within the TR or TD tags. see the on-line tutorial showing examples of publishing with various settings.