Flash: Week 2

Presentation by Mindy McAdams

What Flash Does Well

Design control Integration of

media types Interactivity No scrolling

necessary Modularity

Motion Portability Preloading Sound Streaming

Problems in Flash Content

Accessibility Blurred text Bookmarking File associations Linking (pop-up

windows)

Search engines Site navigation “Skip Intro” Version or browser

conflicts

Button States

Example 1: Hit stateExample 2: Text-only button

Reading Your Timeline

Example: Up and down balloon (Lesson 5)

Frame Label

Select the exact frame in the Timeline

Then … go to the Properties panel and type the label

A Non-linear Timeline

Important to understand right now that the Timeline can be accessed in any order, using ActionScript

However, the playhead normally moves from left to right

You can think of the Timeline as a CD with tracks; you can mark the start of new “tracks” by placing frame labels

Use stop() actions with the frame labels

The End

Work through Lesson 4 and Lesson 5 in their entirety before you begin work on Flash Exercise 2 (due next Monday)

And let’s preview Week 8 …