Smart Clips are reusable, customizable movie clips. They're useful for passing complicated Flash elements from a programmer to a designer. With Smart Clips, a programmer can write actions that a designer can reuse and customize without having to open the Actions panel.
In this tutorial, you'll assemble and use a preloader Smart Clip. This Smart Clip lets you customize how many frames of a Flash movie must download before it begins to play. It also lets you enter a customized text message.
George Brown is a writer for Macromedia's Web Publishing Support Centers. Before focusing on technical writing, he designed books, taught software classes, and developed web sites.
