Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Building

Buttons

for Interactivity

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After you master Flash CS4 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 creates 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.  e most common

interface element is a button. Buttons have

two levels of interactivity:  rst, respond-

ing to user input with visual feedback—for

example, changing color when the pointer

enters the button area; second, carrying out

tasks—for ...