Ross Sheppard High School
Web Page Design and Construction
Student Learning Guide
Creating Action Buttons in a Flash Movie

	When you have finished this project, you will be able to:
	create action buttons in a Flash movie
	create a button the advances the Flash movie
	create a button the causes the Flash movie to play again

1. Create a new folder called Flash Action on your personal drive space. Save everything to do with this project in that folder.
   
   
2. Start a new project in Flash.
   
   
3. Leave the frame speed and movie size set for the defaults.
   
   
4. For this project you will create several symbols and layers, and have them appear at different times in the movie.
   
   
5. You may choose the attributes you wish, but you must have the following:
   • a shape that has an Alpha Tween from frame 1 to frame 24
   • a shape that has a motion tween from from 30 to frame 50
   • text that rotates from frame 55 to frame 85
     
     
6. Save your project as Flash Action.
   
   
7. Create three rectangular buttons:
   • one with the text "Play Again"
   • one with the text "Continue"
   • one with the text "Show me the words"
     
     
8. You may set whatever attributes you wish for the buttons.
   
   
9. The three buttons should remain in the stage from the beginning to the end of the movie.
   
   
10. The buttons will perform the following actions:
    • Play Again will start the movie over from frame 1
    • Continue will jump to frame 30 and play the shape
    • Show me the words will jump to frame 55 and play the words
      
      
11. Once you have all of the objects and layers created, save the movie and play it.
    
    
12. Next, set the frame properties of frames 24, 50, and 85 to stop.
    
    
13. The first button you will work with is the Play Again Button.
    
    
14. Right click on the Play Again button, then select Properties.
    
    
15. On the Instance Properties window, click the Actions Tab.
    
    
    
    
16. Click on the + button and select Go To.
    
    
17. In the Frame box, set frame 1.
    
    
18. In the Control Box check Got to and Play.
    
    
19. This instructs the button to go to frame one and play the movie.
    
    
20. Try this button out by clicking anywhere along the timeline and then clicking the button (remember to enable button actions).
    
    
21. In a similar manner, program the Continue and Show Text buttons.
    
    
22. Click here to see the marking guide for this project.
    
    
23. Save the folder in your "Hand In" folder on your personal Disk space so that this project can be graded.