Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P42: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 | 4. In the Flash tab of the Publish Settings dialog box choose ActionScript in the ActionScript Version menu. Although ActionScript is extremely versatile and powerful non-programmers find it very confusing to assign the proper syntax for even the simplest actions such making a movie clip start or stop . By targeting ActionScript you can use the more designerfriendly Behaviors panel to automatically assign basic behaviors. Use this menu to target ActionScript so you can use the built-in Behaviors. 5. Click OK to close the dialog box. 6. Click the button in the Behaviors panel and choose Movieclip Goto and Stop at Frame or Label. 7. In the resulting dialog box choose Earth as the movie clip instance you want to affect with this behavior. The Goto and Stop action requires two parameters the instance you want to affect and the frame at which you want to stop the movie clip s Timeline. By default this behavior returns the movie clip playhead to Frame 1. Note Relative paths are fine for this movie because the movie is self-contained on a single Stage. When a user clicks this button the playhead in the Earth_Orbit movie clip of which Earth is an instance will return to Frame 1 and stop. In other words the Earth_Orbit animation will stop playing. 192 Project 4 Solor System Model 8. Click OK to add the behavior to the selected instance. In the Behaviors panel the On Release event is added to the panel and to the button instance. The On Press behavior initiates an action as soon as a user clicks a button you used this option in Project 3 to show hidden icons while a user clicked a legend button. On Release does not initiate the action until the user clicks the button and releases the mouse button within the button s hit area. This distinction allows a user to click change his mind and release the mouse button outside the button s hit area to cancel the action. Note The behavior is now added to the selected instance. Double-clicking an action in the Behaviors
