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» Description: Creative DW Image Show PRO is a Dreamweaver extension which enables the user to create multimedia presentations. It combines the features of the popular Creative DW Image Show with the ability to add professional text effects to slides (similar to After Effects). The product is very customizable: the user can choose the duration of the transition effects, the slide motion start and end position, zoom and panning type for both images and texts.
Click and drag the playback head over frames 3 - 15. Your button should
now follow a circular path. To make the motion path invisible just turn that
layers' visibility off.
Now, lets set up the button so it will actually navigate! Select Frame 15
of layer Section 1. Open the Instance Properties dialog box, click
on the Actions tab and assign the following action. An explanation
will follow.
On (Release)
Play
Begin Tell Target (_level0)
Go to and Play (Nav1)
End Tell Target
End On
Play tells Flash to continue playing the current timeline. In this
case that timeline is Navigation. Remember, we stopped playing
this timeline at Frame 16 when the Stop action was issued from the
actions & labels layer.
Begin Tell Target (_level0) tells Flash to target the
previous timeline... sort of like layers. Review pg.. 185-187 of your Using
Flash manual from Macromedia if your lost.
Go to and Play (Nav1) tells Flash to go to the frame
with the label Nav1 in the timeline we identified using Tell
Target. We haven't created this label or the timeline it exists in yet.
As I said before, we'll get to that in a bit.
Jason Lampitt is an Interactive Developer for a major media development firm in Englewood, Colorado. He has a background in fine art as well as graphic design and has been developing multimedia titles for the past 6 years. Jason has a passion for bringing design to life through multimedia and helping
others to understand the sometimes complex and confusing world of
interactive development. In his spare time Jason is an active outdoorsman,
mountain biker and family man.
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