Foreword

Over ten years ago in a dimly lit basement, I started using the Flash authoring tool to create unpalatable, short, frame-by-frame animations - and discovered it was much easier than other tools I had been using to do the same thing. It’s hard to believe what Flash has become over the years, and how many more people are out there using it to create content and share their work. One of the nice and inspiring things about Flash is that it attracts so many different users, from creative animators to hard-core programmers, and all sorts of people in-between.

I was assigned to work on testing a new type of motion tween for Flash a few years ago. Because the feature was already developed (but at the time untested), I needed to learn how everything ...

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