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Emulator tab basics
Open the Emulator tabThe Emulator
tab in Adobe® Device Central CS4 is designed to simulate
content on mobile devices in a realistic way. You can test various
media types, such as Flash®, bitmap, and
video, and apply them as different content types, such as stand-alone
player, wallpaper, or screen saver.
Note: Testing with the Emulator tab cuts the cost and time of testing
on mobile devices, but should never replace testing on actual devices.
Use Device Central for initial tests as you develop content, and
then use real devices for final testing.
If you are testing rich media content, for a content file to
appear on the Emulator tab on a specific device, the device must
support the Flash Lite™ version and content
type that the file uses. For example, if you have a SWF file created
in Flash that requires Flash Lite 2.0, and you try to test the file
on the Emulator tab on a device that only supports Flash Lite 1.1,
the file does not appear. A message on the right side of the Emulator
tab gives information about the player version that the content
requires. In this case, try going to the Local Library or Online
Library, group the devices by Flash Lite version, and double-click
one of the devices that supports Flash Lite 2.0.
 To open a file for testing, do one of the following: From Device Central, select File >
Open, navigate to a file, and double-click the file.
In a supported Adobe application, select to export content
for testing, preview the content, or save the content for devices.
For example, in Flash, the command is Control > Test
Movie. In Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, select File >
Save for Web & Devices. From within the Save For Web & Devices
dialog box, you can access Device Central for testing.
Emulator tab keyboard shortcutsYou can use your mouse to click the Emulator
tab keypad directly, or you can use the following equivalent keyboard
shortcuts:
The arrow keys on the keyboard (Left, Right, Up, Down)
map to the corresponding navigation keys on the Emulator tab navigation
keypad.
The Enter, or Return, key corresponds to the Emulator tab
select key.
The Page Up and Page Down keys correspond to the Emulator
tab left and right soft keys, respectively.
The number keys on your keyboard map to the corresponding
number keys on the Emulator tab keypad.
Change to a different test device In the Device Sets or a library panel, do one of
the following: Double-click a new device. The Active
Device icon  appears
next to the new selected device, which is loaded into the Emulator
tab. The Emulator tab plays the content from the beginning.
Double-click a device in the Online Library panel. If the
device is not yet available locally, it is downloaded to the local
library and loaded in the Emulator tab. The Active Device icon appears
next to the new selected device, which is loaded into the Emulator
tab. The Emulator tab plays the content from the beginning.
Note: You
can emulate only one device at a time. However, you can still select other
files in different tabs without affecting the device selected for
emulation. For example, you can select a different device in the
Device Profiles tab and view its information, or you can select
different devices to add to a set on the Device Sets tab, without
causing the Emulator tab to switch to emulating a different device.
Use the detached view on the Emulator tabThe Emulator tab offers a detached view. This
view is useful for testing devices that do not allow you to simultaneously
view the content at 100% and use the device keypad without scrolling.
This could occur, for example, with high-definition, such as clam-shell
style mobile phones. (With this style of phone, the normal emulator
view might not show all of the content or allow access to the keypad
on the skin without scrolling.)
Do one of the following:
The detached view appears on the left side of the emulator tab.
You can use the keypad on the detached view, or on the main view
on the right side of the emulator.
Zoom in or out Click the
Zoom In button  or
Zoom Out button  . Note: Clicking
the button repeatedly zooms in or out in the following increments: 25%;
33%; 50%, 66%, 100%; 200%; 300%; 400%.
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or the
Rotate Counterclockwise button 
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the button repeatedly to rotate each additional 90 degrees.
