Using ® ® ™ ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5.5 ForLegal notices legal notices, see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/legalnotices/index.html. Last updated 5/17/2011 iii Contents Chapter 1: What’s New in Flash Catalyst CS5.5 Designer-developer workflows between Flash Catalyst CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 . 1 Resizable applications and components . 1 New components and common library panel . 1 Ability to edit the appearance of developer-defined components . 1 More intuitive component naming . 2 Replacing objects on the artboard . 2 Enhanced alignment options . 2 Transition timeline improvements . 2 Interaction enhancements . 2 Working with data lists defined by a developer . 3 Chapter 2: Workflows between Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder Wireframe and prototype workflow within Flash Catalyst . 4 Small team workflow between Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder . 5 Multi-person workflow between Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst . 7 Chapter 3: User interface Design workspace . 8 Code workspace . 10 Start a new Flash Catalyst project . 11 Chapter 4: Importing artwork Import Adobe Illustrator files . 13 Import Adobe Photoshop files . 14 Import FXG files . 14 Import bitmap images . 15 Import SWF files . 15 Import a Flash Catalyst library package . 15 Chapter 5: Creating Application Mock-ups Using Components . 16 Using placeholders . 16 Drawing and text tools . 17 Draw shapes and lines . 17 Add text . 18 Select and position objects . 18 Size and rotate objects . 19 Modify drawing and text properties . 19 Chapter 6: Components: application building blocks What is a component? . 26 Components skin parts and states . 26 Creating components . 27 Last updated 5/17/2011 USING FLASH CATALYST iv Contents Naming components . 30 Nesting components . 30 Editing a component with edit-in-place . 31 Making components resizable . 35 Chapter 7: Resizing Applications and Components Creating Resizable Components by Using Constraints . 37 Chapter 8: Defining structure with states Types of states . ..