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Last updated 12/8/2009 EXTENDING FIREWORKS 292 Cross-Product Extensions The SWF creates a new Fireworks document, and draws a 200 x 200 pixel green rectangle in Fireworks: Flash panels Fireworks contains Adobe Flash Player, which plays Shockwave files as panels and commands in the Fireworks interface. You can also add a Adobe API wrapper extension to Adobe Flash for creating Shockwave files that communicate with the Fireworks API. By leveraging the new API communication between Adobe Flash and Fireworks, Fireworks extension developers can create command interfaces and dialog boxes that go beyond the alert() and prompt() dialog boxes supported in previous versions. You can add command panels to Fireworks for image enhancements, object manipulation, or other custom functionality. How Flash panels and commands work Adobe Flash developers can create interactive movies that contain a combination of ActionScript and calls to the Fireworks API for two types of deployment: interactive panels or modal commands. Basically, while writing ActionScript, you can embed commands for the Fireworks API in the MMExecute() function, or you can embed them using the API wrapper extension for Adobe Flash (download the API wrapper from the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/fireworks_documentation). You can construct these Adobe Flash animations as interactive panels that work just as the Layers panel, the Frames panel, and other built-in panels do.

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EXTENDING FIREWORKS
Cross-Product Extensions
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12/8/2009
The SWF creates a new Fireworks document, and draws a 200 x 200 pixel green rectangle in Fireworks:
Flash panels
Fireworks contains Adobe Flash Player, which plays Shockwave files as panels and commands in the Fireworks
interface. You can also add a Adobe API wrapper extension to Adobe Flash for creating Shockwave files that
communicate with the Fireworks API. By leveraging the new API communication between Adobe Flash and
Fireworks, Fireworks extension developers can create command interfaces and dialog boxes that go beyond the
alert()
and
prompt()
dialog boxes supported in previous versions. You can add command panels to Fireworks for
image enhancements, object manipulation, or other custom functionality.
How Flash panels and commands work
Adobe Flash developers can create interactive movies that contain a combination of ActionScript and calls to the
Fireworks API for two types of deployment: interactive panels or modal commands. Basically, while writing
ActionScript, you can embed commands for the Fireworks API in the
MMExecute()
function, or you can embed them
using the API wrapper extension for Adobe Flash (download the API wrapper from the Adobe website at
www.adobe.com/go/fireworks_documentation
). You can construct these Adobe Flash animations as interactive
panels that work just as the Layers panel, the Frames panel, and other built-in panels do.