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CHAPTER 20
ActionScript: Add
Interactivity
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 offer
numerous ways to engage users with interactivity. When you incorporate
interactivity, you’re not limited to playing each frame in a timeline
sequentially; however, sequential playing offers greater design and
development options. This tutorial will show you some of the ways to
implement interactivity in Flash.
You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the
Macromedia Flash Documentation page at
www.macromedia.com/go/
fl_documentation
.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Set up your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Name button instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Add a scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Move between scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Control the document with a stop() action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Link a button to a scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Add navigation to return to Scene 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Play a movie clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Use a behavior to play an MP3 file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Test your document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
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If you have Flash Professional 8, you can use screens to create a
document. Screens provide additional navigation options. Slide screens,
for example, already include built-in navigation that allows users to use
keyboard arrow keys to move through screens. For more information
about screens, select Help > Flash Tutorials > Basic Tasks: Create a
Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only).
Summary of Contents for FLASH 8-FLASH
Page 1: ...Flash Tutorials...
Page 10: ...10 Contents...
Page 12: ...12 Introduction...
Page 42: ...42 Basic Tasks Creating a banner Part 1...
Page 78: ...78 Basic Tasks Creating a banner Part 3...
Page 88: ...88 Basic Tasks Create Accessible Flash Content...
Page 106: ...106 Basic Tasks Create an Application...
Page 116: ...116 Basic Tasks Use Layout Tools...
Page 124: ...124 Basic Tasks Create Symbols and Instances...
Page 134: ...134 Basic Tasks Add Button Animation and Navigation...
Page 144: ...144 Basic Tasks Create a Presentation with Screens Flash Professional Only...
Page 192: ...192 Creating Graphics Applying Gradients...
Page 198: ...198 Creating Graphics Apply Graphic Filters and Blends Flash Professional Only...
Page 224: ...224 ActionScript Use Script Assist mode...
Page 268: ...268 ActionScript Work with Objects and Classes...
Page 270: ...270 Data Integration Overview Flash Professional Only...
