Flash - Topic 14

Topics covered:

Movie Clips Actions

Placing actions on Movie Clips!

Here's a simple example.

• Create a movie clip with many frames and easy to see if it is working.
• Place the movie clip on the stage.
• Test the movie.
• Select the instance and open the Actions panel.
• Insert Stop by double-clicking on it.Your stop command should be inside a "clip event". This is okay...
• If you test it now it will load and stop. This is what you have told it to do. Let's make it do something more interesting.
• Double-click on Play. You should have two events in the code box, the stop event and the play event.
• Click on the word "load". A menu should pop up that allows you to select the event that causes the movie to play. Let's use "Mouse down".
• Add one more event. Double click "Stop". Click on the event and change it to "mouse up".
• Test your movie. It should be still when it loads and activate only when you hold down on the mouse button.

Fun extras:

Put a sound in your clip that plays when the clip moves but stops when you click the clip.

Here's mine:

 

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