October 2004
Beginner
320 pages
5h 51m
English
IN THIS CHAPTER
What Can Be Animated with ActionScript? 195
Using the onEnterFrame Event 196
In Flash, the Movie Clip, Button, and Component symbols have instance names, and X and Y properties that can be changed programmatically. Anything whose position can be changed programmatically can be animated using ActionScript, thanks to the onEnterFrame event of the Movie Clip class, and setIinterval.
In this chapter, we review animation using ActionScript.
Any visual asset that can assume an instance name can be animated with ActionScript. This includes buttons, text fields, and components, as well as Movie Clips. ...