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Working with Projects (Flash Professional Only)

In Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you can use Flash Projects to manage multiple document files in a single project. Flash Projects allow you to group multiple, related files together to create complex applications.

You can use version-control features with projects to ensure that the correct file versions are used during editing, and to prevent accidental overwriting. To use version control, you must first add files to a project. For information on version control, see "Using version control with projects (Flash Professional only)" on page 49.

Flash Projects include the following features:

• A Flash Project can contain any Flash or other file type, including previous versions of FLA and SWF files.
• You can add an existing file to a Flash Project. Each file can be added to a particular Flash Project only once. Files can be organized in nested folders.
• A Flash Project is an XML file with the file extension .flp-for example, myProject.flp. The XML file references all the document files contained in the Flash Project.
• A Flash Project can contain another Flash Project (FLP file).
• Changes that you make to a project are updated to the FLP file immediately, so the file is always current. (You do not need to do a Save File operation.)
• You can create a Flash Project in the Flash MX Professional 2004 authoring environment, or you can create the XML file for a Flash Project in an external application.
• Flash Projects use UTF-8 text encoding. All filenames and folder names in a Flash Project must be UTF-8 compatible.