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3 Choose Control > Test Movie > in Flash Professional. As the movie plays,
compare it with your checklist. Click buttons and links to ensure they behave as
expected. You should click on every possibility that a user may encounter. This
process is called QA, or quality assurance. In larger projects, it may be referred
to as beta testing.
4 For movies that play with the Flash Player, choose File > Publish Preview >
Default-(HTML) to export a SWF file and an HTML file required to play in
a browser and to preview the movie.
A browser opens, if one is not already open, and plays the final movie.
5 Upload the two files (the SWF and HTML) to your own Web server and give
your colleagues or friends the Web site address so they can help you test
the movie. Ask them to run the movie on different computers with different
browsers to ensure that all the files are included and that the movie meets the
criteria on your checklist. Encourage testers to view the movie as though they
were its target audience.
If your project requires additional media, such as FLV or F4V video files, skin
files for your video, or imported external SWF files, you must upload them
along with your SWF and HTML file in the same relative location as they were
on your computer hard drive.
6 Make changes and corrections as necessary to finalize the movie, upload the
revised files, and then test it again to ensure it meets your criteria. The iterative
process of testing and making revisions may not sound like fun, but it is a
critical part of launching a successful Flash project.
clearing the Publish cache
When you test your movie by choosing Control > Test Movie > in Flash
Professional to generate a SWF, Flash puts compressed copies of any fonts and
sounds from your project into the Publish Cache. When you test your movie again,
Flash uses the versions in the cache if the fonts and sounds are unchanged to speed
up the export of the SWF file. However, you can manually purge the cache by choos-
ing Control > Clear Publish Cache. If you want to clear the cache and test the movie,
choose Control > Clear Publish Cache and Test Movie.
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Lesson 10
Publishing Flash Documents