Adobe Flash Professional CS3 - Manual (Page 67)

FLASH CS3
User Guide
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Working with projects
About projects
You can use Flash projects (FLP files) to manage multiple document files in a single project. Flash projects allow you
to group multiple, related files together to create complex applications.
You can use version-control features with projects to ensure that the correct file versions are used during editing, and
to prevent accidental overwriting.
Flash projects include the following features:
• A Flash project can contain any Flash or other file type, including previous versions of FLA and SWF files.
• You can add an existing file to a Flash project. Each file can be added to a particular Flash project only once. Files
can be organized in nested folders.
• A Flash project is an XML file with the file extension .flp—for example, myProject.flp. The XML file references all
the document files contained in the Flash project.
• A Flash project can contain another Flash project (FLP file).
• Changes that you make to a project are updated to the FLP file immediately, so the file is always current; you do
not need to do save the file.
• You can create a Flash project in the Flash authoring environment, or you can create the XML file for a Flash
project in an external application.
• Flash projects use UTF-8 text encoding. All filenames and folder names in a Flash project must be UTF-8
compatible.
Create and manage projects
You use the Project panel (Window > Project) to create and manage projects. The panel displays the contents of a
Flash project in a collapsible tree structure. The panel title bar displays the project name.
If a project file is missing (not in its specified location), a Missing File icon appears next to the filename. You can
search for the missing file or delete the file from the project.
When you publish a project, each FLA file in the project is published with the publish profile specified for that file.
Only one project can be open at one time. If a project is open and you open or create another project, Flash automat-
ically saves and closes the first file.
See also
“Using publish profiles” on page 435
View the Project pop-up menu
❖ When a project is open, click the Project button at the upper-left corner of the Project panel.
Create a new project
1 Do one of the following:
• Select File > New. On the General tab, select Flash Project.
• Select New Project from the Project pop-up menu in the Project panel (visible only if a project is open).