how to create skeleton flash project

How to create a starter skeleton project
in Adobe flash using ActionScript 3.0.

part II

A basic tutorial for importing images, and
adding objects to an Adobe flash file.

(page 2)

January 4, 2009

Continuing from were we left off in part 1, the authoring tool had a blank stage that is 300x300 pixels in size, and a Document Class that is called Main_Class which contains the following script:

package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;

      public class Main_Class extends MovieClip
      {
            public function Main_Class()
            {
                  trace ('Hail and well met, traveling Selenite.');
            }
      }
}

With the following directory structure:

\skeleton_v1\ (contains all of the project's files)

\skeleton_v1\scripts (contains the text script files)

\skeleton_v1\images (contains the image files)

Before continuing lets enlarge the drawing area for the stage, scene 1, by shrinking and moving the timeline window. This can be done as follows:

Place mouse over far upper right-hand corner, just below the X (at end of frame numbers) of the timeline window.

left-click >> Placement >> Undock from Document

left-click mouse on top of free window to drag it somewhere else

We usually like to drag it over to the far right, so that it sits above the library: