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Using Scenes in Flash

Scenes in Flash allow organizing a document thematically by separating it into categories like introduction, loading, and credits. While scenes avoid having multiple FLA files, they can make documents confusing to edit and result in large file sizes. It is generally better to use separate FLA files instead of scenes to allow simultaneous editing and faster loading of parts of the content separately.

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Using Scenes in Flash

Scenes in Flash allow organizing a document thematically by separating it into categories like introduction, loading, and credits. While scenes avoid having multiple FLA files, they can make documents confusing to edit and result in large file sizes. It is generally better to use separate FLA files instead of scenes to allow simultaneous editing and faster loading of parts of the content separately.

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Using scenes in Flash. Scenes in flash work in a similar way to the Scenes used in a movies.

Learn how to use


scenes organise a movie into categories. For example one scene can be for the preloader and another for the
introduction.

Scenes in Adobe Flash CS3


To organize a document thematically, you can use scenes. For example, you might use
separate scenes for an introduction, a loading message, and credits. Though using scenes has
some disadvantages, there are some situations in which few of these disadvantages apply,
such as when you create lengthy animations. When you use scenes, you avoid having to
manage a large number of FLA files.
Using scenes is similar to using several SWF files together to create a larger presentation.
Each scene has a Timeline. When the playhead reaches the final frame of a scene, the
playhead progresses to the next scene. When you publish a SWF file, the Timeline of each
scene combines into a single Timeline in the SWF file. After the SWF file compiles, it behaves
as if you created the FLA file using one scene. Because of this behavior, scenes have some
disadvantages:

 Scenes can make documents confusing to edit, particularly in multiauthor


environments. Anyone using the FLA document might have to search several scenes
within a FLA file to locate code and assets. Consider loading content or using movie
clips instead.
 Scenes often result in large SWF files. Using scenes encourages you to place more
content in a single FLA file, which results in larger FLA files and SWF files.
 Scenes force users to progressively download the entire SWF file, even if they do not
plan or want to watch all of it. If you avoid scenes, users can control what content they
download as they progress through your SWF file.
 Scenes combined with ActionScript might produce unexpected results. Because each
scene Timeline is compressed onto a single Timeline, you might encounter errors
involving your ActionScript and scenes, which typically requires extra, complicated
debugging.

 Flash Scene
 By Piotr Podsiadly | Published 14/06/2007 | Creating and managing documents

Using scenes
When you publish a Flash document that contains more than one scene, the scenes in the
document play back in the order they are listed in the Scene panel. Frames in the document
are numbered consecutively through scenes. For example, if a document contains two scenes
with ten frames each, the frames in Scene 2 are numbered 11–20.
To stop or pause a document after each scene, or to let users navigate the document in a
nonlinear fashion, you use actions.

To display the Scene panel select Window > Other Panels > Scene.
To view a particular scene select View > Go To, and then select the name of the scene from
the submenu.
To add a scene select Insert > Scene, or click the Add Scene button in the Scene panel.
To delete a scene click the Delete Scene button in the Scene panel.
To change the name of a scene double-click the scene name in the Scene panel and enter the
new name.
To duplicate a scene click the Duplicate Scene button in the Scene panel.
To change the order of a scene in the document drag the scene name to a different location in
the Scene panel.

Scenes of a sexual nature


Flash scenes are like a scenes of a sexual nature – You may watch them, but better not use
them. In most cases it is advised to create another FLA file, when You want to split Your scene
into parts. Having few FLA files is more useful than one with few scenes.

Also the accessibility of elements in Your stage is easier when dealing with many FLA files
instead of one with scenes. One of the main advantages is that You can update Your content
from one FLA file without modifying others so simultaneous work is not excluded. When You
have only one FLA file with scenes only one person may edit it at one time even if other want
to make changes in another scene.

Another fact is loading one big FLA file via web is far more slower than loading only a part, and
then, while playing first scene, You may load another in background.

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