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Selecting test devices and Flash Lite content type (Flash Professional only)

You use the Device Settings dialog box to select the test devices and content type for your Flash Lite application. When you preview your application in the Flash Lite emulator, the emulator is configured to match the behavior and appearance of the selected device and content type. The Device Settings dialog box is available only when your Flash document is configured to target a version of the Flash Lite player.

To select your test devices and Flash Lite content type:

1. In Flash, open the Device Settings dialog box, by doing one of the following:
   • Click the Device Settings button in the Property inspector (Window > Properties > Properties).
   • Select File > Device Settings.

     You can also open the Device Settings dialog box when you test your application in the emulator. For more information, see Using the Flash Lite emulator (Flash Professional only).

2. In the Device Settings dialog box, select the content type for your application from the Content Type pop-up menu.

   
   
   

   The content type that you select corresponds to the Flash Lite player configuration that your content will run in. For example, if you're creating content for the stand-alone version of Flash Lite, you would select Standalone Player from this menu.

3. Add devices from the list of available devices (on the left) to the list of test devices (on the right).
   • To add a single test device, select it and click Add.
   • To select all of the devices in a specific folder, select the folder and click Add.

   If a device doesn't support the selected content type, it appears dimmed. (On Macintosh systems, the icon next to the name of each device is dimmed, but not the text itself.) If none of the devices in a folder support the selected content type, the folder itself is dimmed. You can add dimmed devices to your list of test devices, but they won't be available when you test your application in the emulator.

   
   
   

4. To view information about a device, select the device in either the Available Devices or Test Devices pane.

   The lower edge of the Device Settings dialog box displays the device's model name, available Stage area, and supported Flash Lite platforms.

   
   
   

   The Available Stage property is the size of the available screen area on that device for the content type. If your SWF file's actual Stage dimensions don't match those of the available Stage area, Flash Lite scales your content to fit the available screen space. For more information, see About screen size and available Stage size (Flash Professional only).

5. Click Make Default to set the default device settings to the currently selected content type and test devices.

   Flash automatically applies the default device settings to any new document whose SWF file's publish version is set to Flash Lite 1.0, 1.1, or 2.0.

6. Click OK to close the Device Settings dialog box.

The devices and content types listed in the Device Settings dialog box are loaded from a local XML database that is installed with Macromedia Flash Professional 8. As more devices that support Flash Lite become available, you can download and install an updated list of devices and content types from the Device Profile Updates page at www.macromedia.com/go/mobileupdate. You can also click the Check for New Devices link located at the bottom of the Device Settings dialog box, as the following image shows: