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Integrating with Flash Builder

Integrating with Flash Builder

I have mentioned before in this title that if you are going to write a lot of code for your applications, you should be using Flash Builder to write the code rather than Flash Professional. This is for the simple reason that Flash Builder has more powerful code writing tools than Flash Professional. Of course, if you don't have Flash Builder, maybe you don't want to go out and buy it just for this feature. But if you do, I highly recommend using Flash Builder as your coding platform. So in this movie, we will look at creating the artwork in Flash and using Flash Builder just to write the code. So on the Stage here I have my mini application. It's a simple banner ad. I am going to make this button a link, so this is going to open up the Explore California website. Now, the formal way to do this would be to create an ActionScript class file in Flash Builder, write the code out, and then come back into Flash Professional to do the testing. So let's see how to do that. Note that my…

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