1. Creating buttons Mak Mang Tao

2. What is a button? It is an object to make interactive effect through the pointer of the mouse movement It is a four-frame interactive movie clips Each frame contains one state of the mouse state of the mouse

3. The four states are Up Over Down Hit Up---the pointer is not over the button Over--- the pointer is over the button Down--- the button is clicked Hit--- define the area that will respond to the mouse click

4. Click Insert--- New Symbol Choose Button and type a name

5. Draw a rectangle by clicking Rectangle tool choose to set the corner radius

6. Type a word by clicking Text Tool

7. Click the Over Frame in the timeline and Click Insert Keyframe All the elements in the Up Frame will be copied to the Over Frame

8. Fill the color of the rectangle by clicking Paint Bucket Tool and also change the text to “over”

9. Repeat the process for the Down Frame

10. After editing the design of the button click Scene1 to return

11. Click Window----Library to see that the button has been created

12. Drag the button symbol from the library to the scene Drag

13. In order to see the button effects in the editing mode, click Control---Enable simple Buttons click Control---Test Movie to see the button effects in the final version

14. Actions of a button Example of an action of a button: After clicking a button and start to release it will trigger an action to open a homepage Click and release

15. To turn off the button effect, click Control---Enable simple Buttons Right click the button and choose Actions

16. In the Actions window choose Actions----Browser/Network---getURL Type the url address in the URL box e.g. http://www.hpccss.edu.hk Choose _blank in the window box

17. click Control---Test Movie to see the button effects in the final version