Now we come to the slightly
technical part of creating an action for a button.
In the first keyframe of your movie make a circle.
Now select the paintbrush tool (and a color different from that of the circle
and make a smiley face.
Now move to the timeline and select the keyframe you have just created. In the
insert menu at the top of the screen select the "convert to symbol"
function. Select the behavior for a button. Great!!! You have just made a button.
Let's make that button do
something.
Right click on the picture you have created and select actions, you will see
the actions window appear. In the upper right hand corner of the actions screen
press the arrow under the close window sign (x).
Now select the option
for expert mode and paste in this code:
on (release)
{
gotoAndPlay (5);
}
This code tells the movie player that when the button is clicked on and released
it will go and play keyframe number 5 on the timeline.
This done, let's close the
actions window, and create a new layer (remember the plus sign?). Now select
the image/button you just created and copy and paste it into the new layer.
Once you have done this move the keyframe in the new layer to number 5.
At this point you should
have layer 1 with a smiley face on keyframe 1, and layer2 with a smiley face
on keyframe 5. Now move the smiley face on keyframe 5 to another area of the
workspace so it is not directly on top of where keyframe 1 would be.
Finally, right click on keyframe1 in layer1 in the timeline and select actions.
In the actions window select the action for stop and close the window. Do the
same for keyframe 5 in layer2. Now, go to the top of the screen select the control
panel and choose test movie. You will see that your button starts on keyframe1
but when clicked moves to frame 5 in layer2. You will also notice that your
brain has increased in size, and you are no longer afraid of the scary of FLASH
interface. Good luck!!!
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Beginning FLASH5 animation and a basic button
