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Creating Checkboxes in Flash
Author: Eddie Carrol | Website: http://www.flashkit.com |

Creating The Buttons

To create a checkbox or switch of some kind, we need to create a two frame movie clip, one for each state. To do this, choose Insert> New Symbol, name it and select the Movie Clip behaviour. The Movie clip editing screen will now appear. Here insert two keyframes on the layer, one in frame one and the other in frame two. Now in each frame create a button to reflect a state. For information regarding Building buttons check out the tutorial. In the example, I used red for off and green for on. Now some of you are probably asking "But why don't you use a graphic?" Good question, I use a button because it gives me the ability to interact with the mouse - a crucial function for this operation.

Select the button and choose Modify> Instance. Select the actions tab and give the buttons the following actions. This will drive the switching between states.

On (Release)
 Go to and Play (2)
 // on mouse click turn switch on
End On

On (Release)
 Go to and Play (1)
 // on mouse click turn switch off
End On

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