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694 Chapter 6: Components Dictionary

You can also use the built-in behaviors that are available in the Behaviors panel to control slide

presentations. For more information, see “Adding controls to screens using behaviors (Flash

Professional only)” in Using Flash.

Slide parameters

You can set the following authoring parameters for each slide in the Property inspector or in the

Component inspector:

autoKeyNav determines how, or if, the slide responds to the default keyboard navigation. For

more information, see

Slide.autoKeyNav.

autoload indicates whether the content specified by the contentPath parameter should load

automatically (true), or wait to load until the

Loader.load() method is called (false). The

default value is true.

contentPath specifies the contents of the slide. This can be the linkage identifier of a movie clip

or an absolute or relative URL of a SWF or JPEG file to load into the slide. By default, loaded

content is clipped to fit the slide.

overlayChildren specifies whether the slide’s child slides remain visible (true) or not (false) when

you navigate from one child slide to the next.

playHidden specifies whether the slide continues to play (true) or not (false) when hidden.

Using the Slide class to create a slide presentation

You use the methods and properties of the Slide class to control slide presentations you create in

the Screen Outline pane (Window > Screen) in the Flash authoring environment. (The Behaviors

panel also contains several behaviors for creating slide navigation.) In this example, you write your

own ActionScript to create Next and Previous buttons for a slide presentation.

To create a slide presentation with navigation:

In Flash, select File > New.

On the General tab, select Flash Slide Presentation.

In the Screen Outline pane, click the Insert Screen (+) button twice to create two new slides

beneath the Presentation slide.

The Screen Outline pane should look like the following:

Select Slide1 in the Screen Outline pane and, using the Text tool, add a text field that reads This

is slide one.

Repeat the previous step for Slide2 and Slide3, creating text fields on each slide that read This

is slide two and This is slide three, respectively.