Flash Mx 2004

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is the seventh major version of Flash that was released by Macromedia on September 10, 2003. It featured the first implementation of ActionScript 2.0. It was also packaged with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and Macromedia eLearning Suite 2004.

Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 was included with premium editions of Studio MX 2004. Among its additional features was support for online forms and video support through the new .FLV file format.

Adobe Systems, which had acquired Macromedia in December 2005,[1] disabled the activation server for legacy Macromedia products on December 15, 2012.[2] Users who wish to activate Flash MX 2004 after this date will need to follow this procedure.

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 are the solutions for developing rich Internet content and applications. Whether you are designing motion graphics or building data-driven applications, the Flash MX 2004 products have the tools you need to produce great results and deliver the best user experiences across all major platforms and on many popular devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

Starting with this release, Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional no longer support Windows Me, Windows NT, Macintosh OS 9, or OS X 10.2.5 or earlier. For more information, see the Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 system requirements.

You cannot open a Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (or Flash MX Professional 2004) source file (.FLA) in Flash MX due to the additional features in the 2004 versions. However, you can use the Save as Flash MX feature described in the Using Flash manual to save the document in the Flash MX .FLA format. When doing this, you will lose any new version 2004 features you may have added to the file.

In addition, you may export your Macromedia Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 source file as Flash Player version 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 format (.SWF) for deployment purposes. Features not supported in those versions may not function.

The best way to copy items from files created in Flash MX to files created in Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 is to open the files using Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 and then copy and paste within the Flash application.

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 come with a comprehensive set of new UI components. these components are written in ActionScript 2.0 and are based upon a new architecture that is more robust and full-featured than the Flash MX components.

Migration of existing applications using Components Due to the substantial changes in the component architecture, there will be significant development effort in migrating an application built with Flash MX components to the new 2004 component set. You can continue to develop your application employing Flash MX components in the Flash MX 2004 products without updating to the new component set.

Flash Player 6.0 r79 required by Components The Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 components support both Flash Player 6 and Flash Player 7 SWF format. However, the version 2004 components will not work in versions of Flash Player earlier than 6.0 r79. The new Flash Player Detection feature can be used to ensure that an end-user has Flash Player 6.0 r79 or later; see "Configuring publish settings for Flash Player detection" in Using Flash.

Size of Flash MX 2004 Components Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional components provide a host of new features, and as a result, the size of SWF files containing version 2004 components may be larger than equivalent SWF files containing Flash MX components. This is due to the many new services and sophisticated infrastructure that the version 2004 components provide.

Flash MX Components and Flash Player 7 While Flash MX components may continue to be used in Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004, they may not work when published as Flash Player 7. If you are using Flash MX components in your application, continue to publish your application as Flash Player 6 SWF.

There is a change to the way text is transformed. In Flash MX it behaved like a shape and would transform about the opposite corner. In Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004, text behaves more like a symbol and transforms about the transformation point.

By design, you must be logged in as an administrator to install Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It is suggested that the administrator also activate the product so it will be activated for all users on the machine.

By design, to install Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 on OS X, you must have administrative privileges. It is suggested that the administrator also activate the product so it will be activated for all users on the machine.

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 will not support Mac users who have formatted their hard drives using UFS. Carbon applications have a number of issues with this that are documented by Apple. Unless you are using native apps (AKA Cocoa), UFS is not recommended or supported by Apple.

If you already have Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 installed, you do not need to uninstall prior to running the update installation. This update installs on top of Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004. Ensure that you have closed Flash before running the update installer. You must be logged in as an administrator to run the update installer.

This section only applies to customers who previously installed Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004, and then ran the Updater to update to the latest version. Customers who have only installed the latest version are not affected. To determine which version of the product you are running, choose Help > About Flash.

If you already have Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 installed, you do not need to uninstall prior to running the update installation (available here). This update installs on top of Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004. Ensure that you have closed Flash before running the update installer. You must be logged in as an administrator to run the update installer.

Because of the changes to the Configuration folders with this update (see "Issues Addressed", below), existing Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 customers who have installed Flash Extensions should disable these extensions prior to updating to version 7.2. There is a technote available for more information.

Existing Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 customers who do not update to 7.2 will not be able to obtain further updates to their product Help system. You must update to version 7.2 to get the latest Help.

The 7.2 release modifies the Trigger Data Source behavior file. If you have installed any third party extensions which made changes to this file, those changes will be lost. You will need to manually edit this file to include those changes. You can find this file in C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\First Run\Behaviors\Trigger.xml on Windows, and /Applications/Macromedia Flash MX 2004/First Run/Behaviors/Trigger.xml on Macintosh.

Updated Help and Documentation are only available in English and Japanese. The other language versions of Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 version 7.2 contain the latest previously localized help systems available; however the latest Documentation files in .PDF format are available in English on the CD-ROM or in your download file. Customers who update to 7.2 via the Updater Installer can obtain updated .PDF documentation here.

New Sample: Using advanced video features (Flash Professional only) This new sample included in Flash demonstrates some of the more advanced video features available in Flash MX Professional 2004. Taking you through a computer generated world in FLV video, this application lets the user set video bookmarks and demonstrates advanced video techniques featuring non-linear video, executing functions from video cuepoints, and using ActionScript to pause, rewind, fast forward, restart and reposition video. Also covered are the use and control of multiple MediaDisplay components, video synchronization, and skinning components. This sample is located in the folder \Flash MX 2004\Samples\AdvancedVideo\

New Sample: Building a population viewer (Flash Professional only) This new sample included in Flash demonstrates a unique and intuitive method of data visualization. A map of 15 European countries allows the user to drag the "population" of each country to either side of a scale. Human figures, representing the population of the country selected, are placed on the scale and automatically increase in size to represent the relative population of the country. Each time a country's population is placed on the scale, the total population of each side of the scale is recalculated and the scale tips to the side with the greater total. Web Services provide the initial country populations. Throughout the sample ActionScript is used to display, track, and compare data as well as operate the scale. This sample is located in the folder \Flash MX 2004\Samples\PopulationViewer\

Configuration Folder Changes Significant changes have been made to the location and contents of the Configuration folders. Detailed information on the contents of these folders can be found in the file Flash MX 2004\\Configuration\Configuration_ReadMe.htm (Windows), and Macromedia Flash MX 2004/Configuration/Configuration_ReadMe.htm (Macintosh). These changes were made in order to greatly reduce the amount of data copied into User folders upon first launch, saving time and drive space.

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