A great feature of flash is that its extensible which means that you can create your own tools to put into the flash authoring program making things easier for you. So I decided to make a couple custom panels which sets up the flash canvas for me for what Im trying to do. I created the Movie Setup button to set my fps to 30, size my canvas, add an actions layer, and name a few folders all at one mouse click so that I didnt have to do that every time.

I also created the Banner Setup button for my work so that when Im creating size specific flash banners I can have those set up as well. For this to happen, you have to call the MMExecute function and to that function you need to pass a string of JSFL code which is the JavaScript API for flash. To find out more about the JavaScript API you can go to the help files under extending flash.

After creating the swf It needs to be packaged so that others can download it. It takes 2 files to make this happen, the swf file and a .mxi file (which is pretty much xml) Both those files get packaged with the extenstion manager and you essentially make a flash extension which can be installed by everyone.