Flash MX Professional 2004 uses two versions of the Flash Player for authoring: the Flash MX Professional 2004 test movie player and the stand-alone player. Whenever you select the Control > Test Movie or Control > Test Scene menu commands in Flash MX Professional 2004, the test movie player is started.
You can use the stand-alone player to view an existing Flash SWF movie after it has been published. Once you have set the publish settings for Flash Lite, you can preview SWF files using the test movie player and additional information, warning, and error messages will be displayed to let you know if there is any violation of Flash Lite rules and syntax. This helps you determine how to make the content Flash Lite compatible.
This section describes, at a high level, the features and restrictions for authoring a Flash Lite compatible movie. For different target devices there may be further feature restrictions or enhancements. Please consult the appropriate authoring guidelines document for details.
Navigation and key events
Macromedia Flash Lite reserves certain keys for navigation. The exact keys depend on the specific device. Consult the appropriate authoring guidelines document for details. You can use ActionScript to retrieve input from other device keys. Again, the exact keys depend on the device. Consult your authoring guidelines document for details.
Text and fonts
Macromedia Flash Lite generally includes support for both device and embedded fonts. You can use embedded fonts to give you more control over the design of the movie, but this will increase the overall SWF file size. Using device text is generally limited to a single font style and size, depending on the device, but helps keep the SWF file size small.
For dynamic and input text fields, special text formatting is limited to justification (left, center, right) and color. The formatting options kerning and spacing, bold, and italic styles are not supported.
Flash Lite supports only single-line input text fields; there is no support for line-wrapping. Text is not edited in place, but in a separate page. Both Latin1-based and Shift-JIS character sets are supported, depending on the device. Because most mobile devices do not support mouse-based navigation, it is not meaningful to set input text fields as selectable.
ActionScript functions and properties
Macromedia does not guarantee that all Flash 4 ActionScript and properties will run on all devices. Consult the appropriate authoring guidelines document for details.
