Flash MX Dynamic buttons
Today's tutorial takes concepts and techniques that were explained in the previous tutorial and expands on them to build a dynamic Flash button. The kinds of things that you will learn in today's article include how to get Flash to respond to your mouse, how to import graphics into Flash, what ActionScript is and how we can use it within Flash, creating basic animations for Motion Tweens and packaging it all neatly in a Server Behavior that we can use in Dreamweaver to quickly add our own dynamic buttons to our page.
Overview
Table of Contents:
- Symbols in Flash
- A basic button
- Converting a shape to a button
- Adding some interest
- Adding the button text
- Copying button text to the other states
- Adding some animation
- Importing and animating the graphic
- Creating a motion tween
- Making it a real button
- Why you shouldn't check for the mouse button being pressed
- Making it all dynamic
- Testing our button in a page
- Creating a simple Server Behavior
- Adding your new Server Behavior to your page
- Summing Up
Allan comes from Cape Town, South Africa. He has been implicated in writing for several WROX, glasshaus, Wiley and Apress publications, generally in the 'cool stuff that PHP can do' sections.
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