Navigation Buttons and Movie Clips

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Navigation Buttons and Movie Clips

• Video Game Programming
• Flash
• Mrs. Castiglia

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How to create them.

• They both require you to create symbols and work
  with Flash's library.
• Require ActionScript in order to do all the
  amazing things you want them to.

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ButtonsWhat we will learn.

• Create
• Edit
• Duplicate
• Swap
• Convert a text block, graphic, or grouped object
  into a button symbol.
• Interactive Buttons

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Editing Buttons and Button States

• Mouse events are actions you trigger by clicking
  a button or moving the pointer over it. For
  example, clicking a link on a Web page or a
  Submit button on a form triggers an event.
• Up
• Over
• Down
• Hit

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Whenever you define a symbol as a button, Flash
creates a special kind of timeline for it. This
enables you to incorporate the four states into a
button symbol.
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Duplicating and Swapping Symbols

• Used to make two or more navigation buttons that
  look identical but say different things.
• Here are three methods for duplicating a symbol
• On the Stage
• In the Library
• From the Library

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Swapping Symbols

• If you want to change the order in which your
  buttons appear or replace one with another, you
  can easily swap them by using the Swap button.

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Movie Clips

• Movie Clip is a mini-movie within a Flash movie.
• Has its own Timeline
• Can contain images, sound objects, interactive
  controls such as buttons, and even other movie
  clips.

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Assignments

• Lesson 5
• Quiz - http//www.quia.com/quiz/1961410.html
• Assignment 5