Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies- P11: Welcome to Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies. Our goal when writing this book was to share our enthusiasm for Flash and, at the same time, demystify the application. You can do so many things with Flash that it becomes mind boggling. The minibooks in this reference are designed to take the boggle out of your mind and show you how to use Flash to create Web banners, animations, and other delights. We also delve into the topics of ActionScript and Flash video. | Controlling Movie Clip Timelines 277 Figure 1-5 The Timeline in the Symbol Editor shows the shape tween in the midway position. 5. Click on a frame and press the F5 key to add frames from Frame 1 all the way out to your chosen frame. Then lock the action layer. We chose to add frames out to Frame 30 and then locked our action layer. 6. Add at least one more layer beneath the action layer name the new layers and lock them. Our example adds two more layers beneath the actions layer and names them glass and wine respectively refer to Figure 1-5 we locked only the wine layer. 7. Select a layer where you want your image and draw or paste an image on the Stage. We selected the glass layer and pasted an image of a glass on the Stage. We used a large roughly 70 x 400 image to make it easier to create a shape tween of liquid being added in the next step. After we finished we locked the glass layer. Book IV Chapter 1 Who s Afraid of the Big Bad ActionScript 278 Controlling Movie Clip Timelines 8. Unlock the layer you plan to use select it and use the Paint tool to add drawings to be tweened. We unlocked the wine layer and using the Paint tool brushed a small burgundy-colored 8E3557 dab at the bottom of the glass. This makes it look as though just a small bit of wine remains. 9. Click on the frame where you want the tween to end and press the F6 key to add a keyframe. Expand the painted image to the size you want at the end of the tween. We selected Frame 30 on the wine layer to add a keyframe. Using the Paint tool we filled in the area so that the entire glass is burgundy colored. You can expand the initial paint dab using one of the selection tools or just paint using the Paint tool to fill it up. The largest glass in Figure 1-7 later in the chapter shows what the filled glass should look like. 10. Click on the first frame of the current layer and right click the mouse or Ctrl click on the Mac to open the context menu. When the context menu opens select Create Shape .
