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Part I: A Blast of Flash
Creating a new movie
Files that you create by using Flash are commonly called movies. When you
start Flash, the startup screen appears (by default), as shown in Figure 1-2.
In the Create New section, click one of several options to immediately open a
new movie file. These options let you create movies for various types of uses,
such as mobile devices and further programming. For the purposes of this
book, we assume that you want to create a general-use movie using the latest
technology, which is the ActionScript 3.0 option. (ActionScript 3.0 is the
latest version of Flash’s programming language.) However, if you’re creating
an iPhone application, choose iPhone.
If you already opened a movie and have the menus available, choose File➪
New. In the New Document dialog box, select ActionScript 3.0 on the General
tab and then click OK. You usually start by creating or importing some graph-
ics. (To find out more about working with graphics, see Chapter 3.)
Figure 1-2: The Startup screen.
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