Actions are the essential parts of an interactive Flash movie. The Actions Panel is the tool for creating and editing actions for an object or frame. There are two editing modes Normal Mode and Expert Mode which have the same functionalities. In Normal Mode, a user can simply select actions from the Toolbox list by dragging and dropping or fill in parameters in the argument fields. In Expert Mode, one can enter ActionScript code directly into the text editor on the right side area of the panel Key technologies of Flash 5 Vector graphics Vector graphics is perhaps the most important technique used by Flash 5.
Vector images can be more compacted, thus make the file size small for delivering.
Therefore, the product benefits from this designing feature both in terms of bandwidth efficiency and device independence. File Structure End Tag File Compression Flash interactive movie needs frequent data exchange over a network connection. Change Encoding SWF files only store the changes between states. 4 Default values some structures, like matrices and color transforms, share common field with default values 4 Reuse by the character dictionary, a font, bitmap, shape, or button element can be stored once and referenced multiple times. The dictionary The dictionary is a repository of characters that have been defined, and are available for use by Control Tags.