Topic 5: Symbols

Sample Files

Animated Fish

 

Objectives

Demonstrate the use of the three types of symbols in Flash: movie clip; button; graphic

Exercises

• Exercise: Animated Fish
• Exercise: Animated Fish (button) on a Motion Guide with sound and stop action
• Exercise: nest an animation inside of a button
• Exercise: create an animated button with a getURL link
• Exercise: create an invisible button to link to a URL

Terms and Concepts

• Review the following
  • Movie_clips
    • Looping animations
    • Adding a stop command with actonscript
  • Graphics
    • Matching a graphic symbol animation with a streaming sound
  • Buttons
    • Nesting an animated movie_clip symbol within a button rollover state
    • Buttons with sound
    • Adding a get URL action
    • Stop sounds when you roll off of a button