Week 4 Agenda

6:00-6:30pm: Review (groups, stacking order), About the Instructor, Discussion of Lab 1 and Blackboard, DoW: Inverse Kinematics

6:30-7:00pm: Flash Symbols (Movie Clips, Buttons, Graphics)

7:00-7:15-pm: Build a Button

7:15-7:30pm: Break

7:30-7:40: About Lab 3

7:40-8:00pm:Open Lab Time

8:00-8:30pm: Introduction to ActionScript

8:30-8:50pm: Open Lab time, Q & A.

Tonight we will learn:

• Symbol Types
• Symbol Creation
• Transparency
• Library Assets
• Web-safe Colors
• Creating Buttons
• Simple button ActionScript
• Graphics File Import
• Bitmap to Vector Conversion

Assignments

Read Textbook Chapter 7

Lab 3: Creating and Editing Symbols

DUE: Lab 2 (2/18, before class at 6pm)

Related Resources

You may find this supplementary lesson on creating and editing symbols with Flash helpful (view a video tutorial).

Video tutorial on Symbols from Flash CS3 CIAB

Here is a single .fla file containing many of the Buttons provided with Flash.

Jeff Sale