A note about Flash:Introduction

Flash is an authoring tool that designers and developers use to create presentations, applications, and other content that enables user interaction. Flash projects can include simple animations, video content, complex presentations, applications, and everything in between. In general, individual pieces of content made with Flash are called applications, even though they might only be a basic animation. You can make media-rich Flash applications by including pictures, sound, video, and special effects.


You can create a large variety of applications in Flash.However,it is mostly used in internet applications.We can create banners for displaying ads or messages with rich media content and very low size.We can also create flash games using the scripting language of Flash called Actionscript.Strictly speaking we use actionscript for controlling the movie clip in banners also.But actonscript is more than that.There are a lot of features in actionscript,some of which we will be covering through out.Apart from banners and games,we can also create some match stick animation for fun.

Flash Lite from Adobe, a mobile-optimised version of Flash technology, offers a quick and effective way of building on your existing skills to create mobile content. Flash Lite is supported across all Nokia S60 and most Series 40 devices, and it is widely integrated with Nokia’s mobile WebKit browser.
Flash also has the Flash Javascript API which allows users to trigger Javascript while the Flash movie is playing.

Flash was a product of macromedia which was later acquired by Adobe.In order to play the Flash content you need to download Adobe Flash player.Always use the latest flash player for improved performance. After generating a flash file using flash software,we emebed it in a page in the same way we embed a jpeg or png.But this content plays and has user interaction.We derive user interaction using actionscript.


Flash always has more to offer than a user can think of.The latest version of Flash is Flash CS4(Creative Suite 4) which supports Actionscript 3.0 and has many more features-like the bone tool,3D tool-than Flash 8 professional.