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Creating a Flash Lite document template (Flash Professional only)

When you're developing Flash Lite content, you'll often target the same device, or group of devices, and Flash Lite content type. For example, you might be content for the stand-alone Flash Lite player running on the Series 60 devices from Nokia. To facilitate the authoring process, it can be useful to create a template that has the appropriate Stage size, publish settings, test devices, and Flash Lite content type preconfigured for your application.

In this section, you'll create a document template that has a Stage size of 176 x 208 and targets the stand-alone Flash Lite player. The following procedure describes how to create a template that you can use to create new documents.

To create a new Flash Lite document template:

  1. In Flash, select File > New.
  2. On the General tab in the New Document dialog box, select Flash Document, and click OK.
  3. Select File > Publish Settings to open the Publish Settings dialog box.
  4. Click the Flash tab in the Publish Settings dialog box, select Flash Lite 2.0 from the Version pop-up menu, and then select ActionScript 2.0 from the ActionScript Version pop-up menu. Click OK.
  5. Select Modify > Document to open the Document Properties dialog box.
  6. Type 176 in the Width text box and 208 in the Height text box. Click OK.
  7. Select File > Device Settings to open the Device Settings dialog box.
  8. Select Standalone Player from the Content Type pop-up menu located at the top of the dialog box.
  9. In the list of Available Devices, double-click the Flash Lite 2.0 folder to expand it, and then double-click the Generic folder.
  10. Double-click the Generic Phone device to add it to the list of Test Devices.
  11. Click OK to close the Device Settings dialog box.
  12. Select File > Save As Template to save the document as a template.
  13. In the Save As Template dialog box, type Flash Lite 2 - Generic in the Name text box.
  14. In the Category pop-up menu, type Flash Lite 2.
  15. If desired, enter a description of the template in the Description text box (as many as 255 characters).

    The description appears when the template is selected in the New Document dialog box.

  16. Click OK.

After you create and save the template, you can use it to quickly create a new document that has the same publish settings, device settings, and Stage size.

To create a new document from the template you just created:

  1. In Flash Professional 8, select File > New.
  2. In the New Document dialog box, select the Templates tab.
  3. From the list of available template categories on the left, select Flash Lite 2, which is the name of the category that you specified when you created the template.
  4. From the list of templates on the right, select Flash Lite 2 Generic, which is the name of the template that you specified when you created the template.
  5. Click OK to create the new document.

    A new document that is configured with the same publish settings, device settings, and Stage size as the template appears.