
Building Buttons for Interactivity
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Creating Movie-Clip Buttons
Figure 14.29 The fi rst step in making a movie clip that
acts like a button is creating a new symbol. Choose
Insert > New Symbol, then set the symbol type to
Movie Clip and enter a name in the Create New
Symbol dialog.
Figure 14.30 When you set up the movie-clip button,
it’s a good idea to create a separate layer for the
actions, text, and graphic elements in the movie
clip’s Timeline.
Why Make Movie-Clip Buttons?
Flash’s button symbols make it easy to
create buttons quickly, but they limit you
to just three states: Up, Over, and Down.
Sometimes you’d like a button to have
more states ...