Flash Movie Control

Flash Movie Control

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Use the rectangle tool to draw a button. Right Click, convert it to a button.

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Find a picture of your favorite cartoon character. Then right click, convert it into a Movie Symbol.

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Double click into your Movie. Insert a Keyframe. You should have two different key frames as displayed in the picture above.

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On your second key frame, use the Transform tool to mirror the image horizontally.

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Click back and forth between the first and second key frame. You may want to move the cartoon character a bit.

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Now click on Scene 1. If you run the program you will see Pikachu dancing. Ctrl+Enter to run.

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From Scene 1, click on your cartoon with the selection tool (black arrow). Notice that a blue box appear around all symbols. Name the Movie Clip instance name to cartoon.

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Now click on the Frame.

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Then click on Actions. Notice that we are in Actions  Frame

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Add the following code.

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Notice that the _visible and false words turn blue. Blue means that these are special Flash Actionscript words. Actionscript is the programming language of Flash.

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Now click on your button. Then click on Actions. You should see Actions  Button… NOT Actions  Frame. Then type in the code above.

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Now run your program.

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CHALLENGE: Try to make the Pikachu movie fade in then play. o

Hint: you may need to use the following code: stop(); movie

 pauses the

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cartoon.gotoAndPlay(1);  plays the first frame of the cartoon

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Ask Mr. Kim because I know you are confused.