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Part I: A Blast of Flash
2. In the Property inspector, click the Edit button next to the Profile:
Default label.
The Publish Settings dialog box opens. (We cover publish settings in
detail in Chapter 13.)
3. Click the HTML tab.
4. Deselect the Loop check box in the Playback section.
We want the animation to play only once.
5. Click the Publish button, and then click OK to close the dialog box.
With scarcely a blip, Flash publishes your movie and creates two files,
named Movie of the Year.swf (assuming you used that name) and
Movie of the Year.html. They’re in the same folder as your .fla
movie file. Movie of the Year.swf is the file that your browser
reads to play the animation. Movie of the Year.html contains the
HTML code required to display your movie on a Web page.
6. Open your Web browser.
7. Choose File➪Open (or Open File) and find Movie of the Year.
html (or whatever you named your movie file).
You might need to click Browse and navigate to the file.
8. Double-click the file.
Your browser opens the HTML document and reads its instructions to
play the Flash movie.
9. Sit back and watch it roll.
Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it. (If you do miss it, click the Refresh or
Reload Current Page button in your browser.) You can see the movie in
Figure 1-13.
10. When you finish watching the movie, close your browser.
You can find the Movie of the Year files (.fla, .html, and .swf) on this
book’s Web site, www.dummies.com/go/flashcs5fd.
Exiting Flash
When you finish creating something in Flash, choose File➪Exit (Windows)
or Flash➪Quit (Mac). If you see a message asking whether you want to save
changes to the movie, click Yes if that’s what you want to do.
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