Flash: Beyond Basics

1. Workshop: open activity1.fla
2. The four states of a button are:
   up, over, down, and hit (“Hit” is invisible to the user – defines the area of the button that is reactive to the mouse and makes the mouse clickable)
   
   
3. The four types of buttons are:
   basic – looks the same in the up, over and down state
   rollover – changes in appearance in the up, over and down state
   animated rollover – same as rollover but has a movie clip instance that is displayed in (usually) the over state
   invisible – contains a blank keyframe in the “up” state and a keyframe in the “hit” state; contains artwork in the “over” and “down” state, but not in the “up” state. The button is invisible until the user mouse over it.

1. Workshop: open activity2.fla
2. When creating your rollover buttons with text, use two layers: one for the triangle and one for the text.
3. Watch the animation to see suggested ways to alternate your color and triangle.

PRACTICE: Once you've created a "home" button, duplicate that button, then create these additional buttons. Be sure to adjust the "hit" state area to correspond with the length of each word:

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