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 stateHit state Example 2: Text-only buttonText-only button
Reading Your Timeline Example: Up and down balloon (Lesson 5)Up and down balloon
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 …preview Week 8