User Guide

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CHAPTER 1
Flash Lite Overview
This chapter contains the following topics:
About Flash Lite technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Flash Lite 1.x availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
About Flash Lite content types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Workflow for authoring Flash Lite applications (Flash
Professional Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Flash Lite authoring features in Flash Professional 8 (Flash
Professional Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using Flash Lite document templates (Flash Professional Only) 16
Hello World Flash Lite application (Flash Professional Only) . . . 18
About the stand-alone Flash Lite player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About Flash Lite technology
Macromedia Flash Lite is a version of Macromedia Flash Player designed
for mobile phones. It balances Flash features and capabilities with the
processing power and configurations of today’s mass market mobile
phones. There are currently two versions of Flash Lite: Flash Lite 1.0 and
Flash Lite 1.1. Flash Lite consists of the following features:
The core rendering engine The rendering engine handles all vector and
bitmap rendering.
ActionScript interpreter Flash Lite supports the version of the
ActionScript language used in Flash Player 4, including many mobile-
specific commands, such as getting time and date information from the
device. This hybrid of Flash Player 4 ActionScript and commands with
properties specific to Flash Lite is collectively called Flash Lite 1.x
ActionScript.