What Are Flash and Director/Shockwave?
These two programs are animation/movie programs, based
around an art working interface. You can make your own interactive animations
and movies for display on Web pages.
Flash uses vector based graphics and is popular for small web based work.
Director makes more ambitious animations and movies.
Shockwave (.dcr file) is a compressed version of a Director file (.dir file)
designed to be streamed for playing on the web.
Both programs are, like Dreamweaver, made by Macromedia.
See text file for more information.
Using Dreamweaver4 for inserting Flash/Shockwave.
Dreamweaver does not contain either Flash or Director, but you can insert Flash and Shockwave applications using the Objects Panel.
You can however create Flash Text and Flash Buttons using the program These will be visible on the users computer even if they do not have a flash player on their system.
Each Flash element is saved as a .swf file which must be uploaded onto the web site.
"The Flash SWF file (.swf) is a compressed version of the Flash (.fla) file, optimized for viewing on the web. This file can be played back in browsers and previewed in Dreamweaver, but cannot be edited in Flash. This is the type of file you create when using the Flash button and Flash text objects " DW help(1) Using DWMX for inserting Flash/Shockwave
Use the Insert Bar. In Common there are buttons for inserting Fireworks html and Flash and in Media there are Flash, Flash buttons, Flash Text and Shockwave buttons
Flash tools in MX
(2) In MX2004 there is no media tab. All Flash Fireworks material in the Common tab
Flash Tools in MX 2004
(3)Using Dreamweaver4 for inserting Flash/Shockwave. Fireworks is the link to Fireworks allowing you to insert html pages made here into Dreamweaver. (You can also insert images, tables and rollovers made in Fireworks directly into the program - Fireworks is not supplied with Dreamweaver.)
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