Re: FLASH: How do they do it?

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 01:06 AM 8/26/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Will this trick work in flash 3 for those of us without the money (yet) to 

>purchase flash 4?


Yes, it's Flash3 technology.


...

><< Create a small movie clip with a blank, stopped first frame and an 

>invisible

> button that covers the size of one grid square on the stage. Give the button

> the rollover action "play." In the following frames of the movie clip, 

>create a

> small red dot that expands to the size of the button (whose hit area should 

>be

> square) and then shrinks, disappears, and returns to frame one, where the 

>movie

> clip stops. Blanket the stage with this movie clip, by snapping copies to the

> grid (using group, copy, and paste will speed up the process of creating

> several hundred instances of the movie clip).

> 

> Navigation buttons should be placed in a higher layer so they'll receive 

>mouse

> events. >>



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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My Flash Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

(featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn)


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