Chapter 9: Tutorial: Building Your First Flash Application - MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual

CHAPTER 9
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Tutorial: Building Your
First Flash Application
This tutorial guides you through the process of creating a simple
application using some of the authoring features in Macromedia Flash
Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. A Flash application, broadly defined, can
be as simple as content that offers interactivity, or as elaborate as a robust
application that interacts with a variety of data sources.
If you have not already done so, Macromedia recommends that before you
take this tutorial you read "Flash basics" on page 57.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:
Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Examine the completed application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Create a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Create symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Edit a symbol Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Add actions to frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Add labels to frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Add motion tweens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Edit the main Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Create the border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Add a symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Add a text box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Add the movie clip to the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Add a button component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Add ActionScript code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Publish your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
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