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Introduction
This manual provides an introduction to Macromedia® Fla sh® Lite™ 1.x
from Adobe and describes how to test your content using the Adobe®
Device Central CS3 emulator, which is part of Adobe® Flash® CS3
Professional. The primary difference between using Flash Lite in Flash CS3
and in previous versions of Flash is that the Flash Lite emulator is now part
of Device Central. See the Device Central documentation for more
information.

What’s new in Flash Lite

authoring

Flash includes the following new features to help developers create Flash
Lite applications:
Adobe® Device Central emulator Adobe Device Central includes an
emulator that lets you pre view your co ntent as it w ill function on an actual
device. The emulator can configure itself to mimic the features available on
any supported device. The emulator also provides debugging information
that alerts you to potential problems and incompatibil ities on the target
device.
Device Settings Adobe Device Central lets you select your test devices
and Flash Lite content type. When you test your content in the Device
Central emulator, you can choose the test device you want the emulator to
mimic.
Device document templates Adobe Flash CS3 Professional includes
document templates to let you quickly start creating content for specific
devices and content types.