Chapter 3: Basic Tasks: Creating A Banner, Part 2 - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

CHAPTER 3
Basic Tasks: Creating a
banner, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part introduction to Macromedia Flash
Basic 8 or Macromedia Flash Professional 8. You successfully completed
Part 1 of this tutorial, where you created, set up, and imported content into
an FLA file. Because you're reading Part 2, you're probably ready to learn
more about Flash. That's good, because you will create symbols,
animation, and even write some simple ActionScript to make the banner
function in this continuation tutorial. Following this part, you'll add the
banner to a website using Dreamweaver (or, you can optionally upload the
banner to a website using any tool).
See the introduction to "Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 1" on page 25
for a desecription of Part 1, 2, and 3 of this tutorial.
You do not need any prerequisite knowledge to complete these tutorials,
however you should complete Part 1
1" on page 25) of this tutorial before you start Part 2.
In Part 2 of this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Examine the completed FLA file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Adding text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Adding animation to a timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating a button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Writing simple actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Test the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The tutorial workflow includes the following tasks:
"Examine the completed FLA file" on page 44
completed Flash document for Part 2.
"Adding text" on page 46
FLA file.
("Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part
lets you view the
shows you how to create and format text in a
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