Week 8
Monday * February 22
Buttons and controlling the Timeline in Flash (frame labels); introduction to ActionScript 3
- LAB Work on Lesson 6 (in the book); bring book and CD to class!
- LECTURE 1 Examples of navigation (and other uses of buttons) in news packages.
- LECTURE 2 Making ActionScript do what you want it to do (see book pp. 213–216): button script elements, listeners, functions.
DUE 9 a.m. Monday (via e-mail): Critique 1
READ Lesson 6 in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book (ACiaB), pp. 194–236. SEE NOTES BELOW.
EXAMINE Greenhouse gas emissions animation (BBC News): In this simple graphic, there are exactly three buttons. Can you figure out how each one works, using frame labels on the Timeline?
Notes * * *
The ActionScript for buttons is a fundamental part of designing interactive Flash animations. Don't be intimidated by it.
Please read pp. 213–216 BEFORE coming to lab on Monday.
Supplemental * * *
- Summary of Lesson 6: Download this 2-page PDF and use it to ensure that you have understood the key points in the lesson in the book.
- ActionScript 3.0 Buttons (online tutorial)