Week 10 - Interactivity & Buttons

Interactivity in Flash

• Stop an animation using Actionscript 2.0 code. 
• Create a motion tween of a ball on a layer called "ball"
• Create a new layer called "actions" with a blank keyframe
• Right-click on the blank keyframe and select Actions
• Place stop(); code in the actions panel of the blank keyframe
• Test your scene
• Move the blank keyframe to another frame
• Test your scene
• Create a Button to Play the animation
• Create a rectangle and type "PLAY" inside it
• Select the rectangle and text and Convert to a Symbol (symbol type is a button)
• Right click on the button and select Actions
• Place play(); code in the actions panel
• Test your scene and click your button

• Create a Button to Stop the animation
• Create another button the same way you created the "PLAY" button
• Right click on the button and select Actions
• Place stop(); code in the actions panel
• Test your scene and click on your buttons

Resources:

• Buttons - Flash Tutorial: Basic Button Properties
• Interactive Example - Jordan: History of Flight