Chapter 12. Building Buttons for Interactivity
After you master Flash CS3 Professional’s drawing and animating tools, you can create movies that play from beginning to end. But Flash does more than make animated movies; it can create interactive environments that transform viewers into users. To move your Flash movie into the realm of interactive experience, you must add interface elements that give users control. The most common interface element is a button. Buttons have two levels of interactivity: first, responding to user input with visual feedback—for example, changing color when the pointer enters the button area; second, carrying out tasks—for example, switching to a new scene when the user clicks the button.
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