Chapter 20: Making Your First Flash 8 Project

Overview

In This Chapter

Creating a Main Timeline layout

Making an image slide show

Adding navigation elements to a presentation

Using the TextArea component

Creating an effect with a custom BlurFader component

Inserting named anchors into your Flash movie

Adding accessibility information to movie elements

Now that you've learned the basic principles behind Flash actions, you probably want to start creating a presentation to put on a Web site. This chapter integrates several basic production principles and teaches you how to make a simple interactive Flash movie that has basic navigation and text functionality. After you have completed this chapter's lessons, you'll be more prepared for the nitty gritty of ActionScript in Part VII of the book.