Flash mx Introduction [May 5th]

For our introduction to flash we was taught how to make create buttons in flash and how to link them to a different area. We was also told about what the difference was between html code and flash code, which is that flash is a lot more interactive with the user.

first of all we just made eight simple shapes in illustrator which we then copy and pasted into flash. then when we edited the four stages of how the button looks which are "up,over,Press,hit" so then it creates some animation so when you press the button it does look as if its being pressed.

after this we created more key frames along the timeline which the button could be linked to with a simple code so that when the button is pressed it links straight to the desired key frame.

In this introduction we used coding such as:
stop();
and
gotoAndStop();
to control the frames from playing all the way through
and then to say what frame to go too

This helped me out quite a lot as i have done flash before but not for like two years so this reminded me of how it works and let me become familiar with it again so after creating a few buttons a started adding just a few simple animations which were just made up of motion tweens.