User manual MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH TUTORIALS

[. . . ] Flash Tutorials Trademarks 1 Step RoboPDF, ActiveEdit, ActiveTest, Authorware, Blue Sky Software, Blue Sky, Breeze, Breezo, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Database Explorer, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashCast, FlashHelp, Flash Lite, FlashPaper, Flash Video Encoder, Flex, Flex Builder, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JRun, MacRecorder, Macromedia, MXML, RoboEngine, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboPDF, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Studio MX, UltraDev, and WebHelp are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. [. . . ] With Frame 15 of the Actions layer selected, go to the Global Functions > Timeline Control category of the Actions toolbox and double-click stop. The stop action lets you specify that the playhead stop when it reaches Frame 15. In the Button Animation Timeline, Frame 15 of the Actions layer now displays a small a, which indicates that an action is attached to that frame. 5. 9. Click Scene 1, above the Stage, to exit symbol-editing mode and return to the main document. Click the pop-up menu control in the upper-right side of the Actions panel, and select Close Panel. Select Control > Enable Simple Buttons so you can test the animated button. Select Control > Enable Simple Buttons to deselect that feature. Add an action to a button 131 Add navigation to a button With behaviors, you can quickly add navigation to a button without having to know ActionScript. You'll add navigation to open a web page when the user clicks a button. 1. In the Behaviors panel (Window > Behaviors), click Add Behavior and select Web > Go to Web Page. 3. In the Go to URL dialog box, select _blank in the Open In pop-up menu to open the URL in a new browser window. In the URL text box, either accept the default setting of http://www. macromedia. com or enter a different URL. If desired, repeat the previous steps, selecting Button 2 and then Button 3, to add navigation to those buttons as well. Click the pop-up menu control in the upper-right side of the Behavior panel, and select Close Panel. 4. 5. 132 Basic Tasks: Add Button Animation and Navigation Test the SWF file You'll test your document to view the button animation and see if the navigation works as expected. 1. Move the mouse pointer over the instance of Button 1 to view the color animation that you created. Click the button to see if your web browser opens to the URL that you specified. If you added navigation to the other two buttons, test those buttons as well. When you finish viewing the SWF file, close the SWF file and web browser windows. Summary Congratulations on learning about buttons. In a few minutes, you were able to accomplish the following tasks: Create a button from grouped objects. Add navigation to a button. To learn more about Flash, take another lesson. Summary 133 134 Basic Tasks: Add Button Animation and Navigation CHAPTER 11 Basic Tasks: Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only) Flash Professional 8 offers a new way to create presentations with slide screens. If you can imagine placing media on slide screens, adding nested slides that inherit media from other slides, and using the built-in controls to navigate through the slides at runtime, you've imagined exactly how easy it is to create a presentation with slide screens. You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www. macromedia. com/go/ fl_documentation. In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks: Add content to a presentation slide . 142 11 135 Set up your workspace First, you'll open the start file for the lesson and set up your workspace to use an optimal layout for taking lessons. 1. To open your start file, in Flash select File > Open and navigate to the file: In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Tutorial Assets\Basic Tasks\Presentation with Screens and double-click presentation_start. fla. [. . . ] Change the DeltaPacket component's encoder setting to DataSetDeltaToXUpdateDelta. This encoder converts data within the DeltaPacket into XPath statements that are supplied to the XUpdateResolver component, but it needs additional information from you to do its job. 6. Double-click the encoder options property. When prompted for a value for the rowNodeKey property, type datapacket/row[@id='?id']. This property identifies which node within the XML file will be treated as a record within the data set. [. . . ]