Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

is presumed,
www.niklever.net/flash
will find the same file.
All HTML documents have the format
A very simple web page
This is the content of the web page.
Chapter 12: Using external files
Most HTML tags have the form … where ‘TAG’ is the start of a tag and ‘/TAG’
is the end of that tag. Most tags can be nested inside other tags. You may well have your favourite
program for creating HTML pages: ‘Frontpage’ and ‘Dreamweaver’ are just two. But it is useful to
know what is being created when you author an HTML page. Essentially you just create a text file.
Whenever an image is added the image is not part of the document; instead a URL is created. This
can be a direct link to the image such as ‘http://www.niklever.net/flash/images/masthead.jpg’ or
alternatively in the current example we can just use ‘images/masthead.jpg’ which is a relative link
to the file, relative in respect of the current page, http://www.niklever.net/flash/index.html. We
look in the image folder and find the file ‘masthead.jpg’. When you create a Flash game you can
choose to ‘publish’ the game. Figure 12.1 shows the ‘Publish Settings’ dialog box that is accessed
from ‘File/Publish Settings...’.
The check boxes that are checked by default are ‘Flash’ and ‘HTML’. When you create a Flash
game the project file is an ‘FLA’ file. When you publish this file it is in the compressed form of an
swf file. In order to view this file on the Internet you will link to the HTML file, not the swf file.
Linking to the swf file directly will simply bring up a file download box if you have the rights to
download files from the folder. Here is an HTML file produced using Flash Publish.
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