In these videos from Total Training, John Ulliman, an authorized Flash instructor, teaches you basic ActionScript 2.0 skills in Flash Professional 8.

After watching these videos you will understand how to do the following:

• Use the Actions window and Script Assist
• Create buttons and label them
• Assign actions to buttons as well as organize them
• Stop sounds with the Behaviors panel
• Use the Goto and Play behaviors as well as advanced Goto behavior options
• Modify a behavior and add an Action layer
• Duplicate and modify sequences in the Timeline
• Link a button to a website

This series of tutorials was taken from an entire lesson, and are meant to be viewed sequentially.

Setting up to use ActionScript

This short tutorial is about scripting basics and getting actions to occur on buttons. It follows an earlier lesson, which covered creating buttons. You'll see how to add sound effects to keyframes and how to add text.

• Watch the video (3:39 min)

Introducing the Actions window and Script Assist

This tutorial is about adding scripting elements. After the rundown about using scripting to change the looping behavior, there is a tour of the Actions window. You'll also learn how to tell where actions have been added to keyframes.

• Watch the video (6:47 min)

Creating buttons to activate ActionScript

This short tutorial is about how to build a button for the user. You'll see how to add text to the button as well as changing the color.

• Watch the video (3:36 min)

Labeling buttons in the Properties window

This short tutorial is about adding script to the buttons. After a brief rundown of the Property inspector, you are shown how to name the buttons in that panel.

• Watch the video (2:02 min)

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