Chapter 11. EXTENDING FIREWORKS: DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE WORKFLOW USING JAVASCRIPT AND FLASH

Adobe Fireworks includes a rich extensibility model that allows advanced users to create sophisticated custom panels (Flash panels) using a combination of JavaScript and Flash. In fact, many of the panels that ship with Fireworks, including the Align panel and the Path panel, are Flash panels. Because the Fireworks engineering team has exposed practically every aspect of Fireworks through a JavaScript extensibility model, you're really only limited by your imagination (and technical abilities, of course).

This chapter is designed to give you an understanding of the entire Flash panel development process and presents a workflow I have refined through ...

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