Index

B

Back button and Flash movie, 44

background, building layered in Photoshop, 450

background color, changing, 437

backing up file, 424

balance slider, creating, 912–914

Bandwidth Profiler

distribution of bytes and, 942

opening, 476

optimized layout and, 945

Simulate Download feature, 47

testing Flash movie and, 706–710

bandwidth usage, optimizing sound for, 498–500

banner ads, creating, CDBC14–CDBC17

Basic version, 61, 62

Batch Process dialog box (Fireworks), CDBC12–CDBC13

batch processing bitmap sequences with Fireworks, CDBC10–CDBC14

Bazley, Richard (animator)

biography of, 1213

The Journal of Edwin Carp, 317, 447–448

tutorial by, 319

behaviors

description of, 478, 625

Dreamweaver, CDBC70–CDBC75

integrating with Movie Clips, 667–673

reviewing code used by, 666

targeting Movie Clips with, 665–667

Behaviors panel

overview of, 623–625

Sound category

Load Sound from Library behavior, 478–480

Load streaming MP3 file behavior, 480–482

overview of, 477–478

Play Sound behavior, 482–483

Stop All Sounds behavior, 483–485

Bevel command (Join menu), 115–116

Bevel filter, 369

BevelFilter class, 1189–1191

Bindings tab (Component Inspector panel), 1145–1146, 1149, 1153

bit depth (bit resolution), 513, CDBA83–CDBA85, CDBA92–CDBA93

Bit depth settings (Publish Settings dialog box), 734–735

bitmap

Alpha, color, and filters, applying, 523–524

batch processing sequences with Fireworks, CDBC10–CDBC14

bit depth and, 513

breaking apart, 293–294

cartoon animation and, 449

converting to vector graphic, 527–530

description of, 174, 506

dimensions of, 513, 514

exporting, CDBC22–CDBC24

Fireworks and, CDBC2–CDBC5

importing

copying and pasting, 517

overview of, 515–516

as sequence, 516

multiplane animation and, CDBC18–CDBC22

preparing, 511–512, CDBC1–CDBC2, CDBC17

preserving quality of, 513–514

resolution and, 512–513

runtime bitmap caching feature, 7, 449, 542–543

tracing, 295–297

tracing to convert to vector, CDBC31–CDBC33

transferring Fireworks images with transparency to Flash authoring environment, CDBC6–CDBC8

vector graphic compared to, 506–507

bitmap compression

8-bit lossless source files and, 526–527

overview of, 525

source files with lossy compression, 527

24-bit or 32-bit lossless source files and, 525–526

Bitmap file format (BMP, Windows), 509, CDBC23, CDBC25

bitmap fill

resizing, 276–277

selecting, 226–227

skewing, 278–279

bitmap handler component, 14

Bitmap Properties dialog box

JPEG compression settings, 525, 527

using, 517–521

bitmap shift, 522

Bitmap text option, 247

BitmapData class, 1191–1194

Blackwell, Lewis

David Carson 2ndsight: Grafik Design after the End of Print, 230

The End of Print, 230

blend modes, layering graphics with, 382–389

Blend modes (Player), updates to, 5

Blur effect, 392

Blur X, Blur Y setting (filters), 368

BlurFader component, 692–694

BlurFilter class, 1191–1194

blurOverlay function, 1192

blurring

to simulate depth, 452

to simulate motion, 428

BMP format, 509, CDBC23, CDBC25

body language, 432

bold formatting, 1016

Boolean data type, 867–868

Bound To dialog box, 1150, 1153

breadcrumbs, 87

break action, 814–815

Break apart command, 262, 263, 291, 293–294

breakpoint

adding or removing

in Actions panel, 1090

in Debugger panel, 1090–1092

overview of, 1089

stepping through code using, 1092–1093

Breeze Live (Macromedia), 34

Brightness Color property, 379

Brightness setting (Adjust Color filter), 378

Bringhurst, Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style, 230

broadcast animation, CineLook filters for "classic," 453–456

Brown, Scott (designer), 1213

browser

centering Flash movie in, CDBC55

ExternalInterface API and, 763

Flash Player plug-in and, 780

image format and, 522

Mozilla Firefox, 753

Browser/Network booklet, 629–630

Brush mode option menu, 121–124

Brush shape option, 124

Brush size option, 124

Brush tool, 120–125

Brzyski, Jonathan (artist), 1048

Bugzilla, 47

buildHolders function, 1179, 1184, 1198

building nested symbol structure

adding Movie Clip to Button symbol, 187–188

animating Graphic symbol in Movie Clip, 186–187

converting raw shape into Graphic symbol, 183–184

modifying Movie Clip instance, 189–190

overview of, 183

using Graphic symbol in Button, 185–186

Burak Captionate utility, 587

button

assigning sound to, 468–470

invisible, creating, 647–652

Button component

description of, 1116

parameters of, 1116–1117

size of, 1109

uses of, 1117

Button object

adding in Dreamweaver, CDBC58–CDBC59

editing in Dreamweaver, CDBC60

button states, 185

Button symbol instance

adding Movie Clip to, 187–188

description of, 172–173, 174

Property inspector and, 69

using Graphic symbol in, 185–186

Buttons Library, 163, 687