About projects

You can use Flash projects (FLP files) 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.

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 save the file.

• You can create a Flash project in the Flash 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.