Chapter 18: Understanding Actions and Event Handlers

Overview

In This Chapter

Knowing events and event handlers

Adding interactivity with the Behaviors panel

Understanding Flash actions

Using the Actions panel with Script Assist

Learning your first Flash actions

Executing actions with event handlers

Using getURL

Making invisible buttons

Interactivity in a Flash movie can broadly be thought of as the elements that react and respond to a user's activity or input. A user has many ways to give input to a Flash movie, and Flash has even more ways to react. But how does interactivity actually work? It all starts with actions and event handlers.