Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P41:Now you can easily create web-ready images and animations within the familiar Adobe environment. With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has added Flash to its suite of creative products, thus solidifying its position as the world's leading developer of graphic and visual communications tools. The Against The Clock Portfolio Series Flash title ensures that you'll learn everything you need to complete any job that requires Flash skills | 1 1. With the area still selected change the Font Size field in the Properties Inspector to 50. Click the green button to see how the planets move around the Sun. en a text area is selected i a selection tool all type in area is affected by changes he Properties Inspector. 1 2. Using the Text tool create another text area near the bottom of the Stage. 1 3. Change the font to the non-bold variant of whatever font you used for the heading change the type size to 16 and click the Align Left button. 1 4. Type the following One Earth year equals approximately seconds. Return Enter Planets are not shown to scale. 1 5. Using the Selection tool resize the text area horizontally so each sentence fits on a single line. Position the text area in the bottom-left corner of the Stage. Note You can change the formatting of specific text within an area by highlighting it and choosing different options in the Properties Inspector. 1 6- Save the file and continue to the final stage of the project. Project 4 Solor System Model 187 Step Q Adding Movie Controls In Project 3 you learned how to use ActionScript to make a button affect the properties of other movie clips on the Stage. This type of interactivity is one of the foundations of Flash allowing users to click objects and cause something to happen somewhere in the movie. In this stage of the project you add buttons that start and stop the orbit animation. The concept follows the same basic principles you used to create the park map legend in Project 3. In this movie however you add an action that affects the Timeline of the orbit movie clips. The orbit animations exist within movie clips which are placed on the first and only frame of the main Timeline. By default the Timeline in a movie clip plays automatically as soon as the movie clip loads. Because the movie clips are all placed on Frame 1 of the main Timeline they begin playing as soon as the movie opens. Prcphrc Instrnc s for Button Control Whether simply making an icon
