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Using Flash for the first time – Part 2: Adding symbols, animation, and ActionScript
Jen deHaan
Flash Authoring QE
Adobe
Jen deHaan's blog
flashthusiast.com
webvideoblogger.com
Table of Contents
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part introduction to Adobe® Flash®. You survived Part 1 of this tutorial, where you created, set up, and imported content into an FLA file. Because you're reading Part 2, you're probably ready to learn more about Flash. That's good, because more fun ensues in this part—you will create symbols, animation, and even write some simple ActionScript to make the banner function.
Note: This article uses Flash CS3 Professional. If you still use Flash 8, please read the previous version of this article. If you’re still using Flash MX 2004, you can read this even earlier version of the article.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Flash CS3 Professional
Sample files:
Prerequisite knowledge:
Using Flash for the first time—Part 1: Building a banner
About the author
Jen deHaan was raised by wolves in the deep woods of the Canadian north. Canada's chief exports include motor vehicles (or their parts), lumber, newsprint, nonmetal materials, and wheat. One overcast day in 2004, Jen left her life as a Flash deseloper (designer/developer) in Canada to write Flash documentation and samples at Macromedia in San Francisco. Aside from her ongoing work at Adobe as an instructional designer for web and video products, Jen runs several community sites for fun, and maintains a blog at www.webvideoblogger.com and weblogs.macromedia.com/dehaan. She believes that _root tends to be evil and misses Tim Horton's coffee.
