Before you publish your file on the Internet, you want to test it.

Testing files in Flash, or any web project for that matter,  should be done “early and often”. This will help you find problems earlier on, so they are easier to fix.

To test a file you can press CRTL+Enter (Windows) or Command+Return (Mac) to preview in Flash.

To test inside of a browser, choose File > Publish Preview > Default (HTML). Then it will display in your default browser.

The Bandwidth Profiler

This tool helps you find when/where/which frames have a lot of new content, and could take a while to download. This can be used to find frames which are hanging up (if you don’t have a pre-loader).

When you Test a Movie, you can specify a test speed (View > Download Settings > [speed]) This will let you simulate the speed of a user downloading your movie. (Assuming they have a good and accurate connection speed. Actual connection speeds may vary.)

Publishing a Movie for the Web

File > Publish Settings

This allows you to change what Flash player/AS version to you. I recommend using the lowest that you can, so to be compatible with the most number of people.

Under the HTML settings, there are many things you can change to control how items look. Quality, scaling, etc.

Once all the configuration is completed, you will need to upload all the necessary files (HTML, SWF, External SWF, JPGs, etc) to the server, and test.

Publishing Your Flash File was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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