Introducing Diesel, my English bulldog that my family adopted. The original owners were looking to downsize there family. And I was looking to add a bulldog to my family. Now, instead of me walking around the newsroom talking about the bulldog of my dreams, I now am the proud mamma of an English bulldog.
Isn't he a cutie? I'm talking about the dog. (My husbannd is still cute too.)
I don't have a play button with this simple animation, but just refresh your window and you can see it again...
OK, so it's a little tiny, but it works!!!! This is an actual multimedia presentation, so go on see for yourself by rolling your cursor and clicking on the different interactive elements.
This is my first FLASH presentation I did for the newspaper. I was just learning FLASH 8 at the time.
Still not sure how to embed a Flash animation so you'll have to download the file to see my animation
I got home at about 4:00 a.m. after finishing my interactive map. Got up at 10:23 a.m. and drug myself into work.
It's about 3:45a.m. and I'm finishing up my interactive map that you can check out at http://ydr.inyork.com/
And I'm tired.
And my bumbling boss just deleted my blog entry, so now I'm rewriting my entry and I'm very tired. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I'm going to go home and zzzzzzzzzzzz.
First, I must make it perfectly clear, I love my job here at the good old YDR.
But, have to say that I'm really frustrated with FLASH CS3. I was sooo frustrated today, that I actually back paddled and reopen FLASH 8.
My frustrations grew out of the fact that you can no longer directly add a behavior or action to a button. Which, you really shouldn't do, but I was creating very simple action scripts, so I thought I would throw caution to the wind and add a simple action to my button. HA! Can't be done! Well, it can be done, just not directly.
For example, you have a button sitting on your stage. Select it, give it an instance name, (in this example the instance name is myButton) in the Property inspector. Once you give the button an instance name ActionScript can now identify it from any other objects/symbols present. Next add some action scripting to a key frame that is on its own layer and type the following:
myButton.addEventListener(
MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
trace("I've been clicked!");
}
);
Well, that's pretty much your crash course on adding action scripts to buttons? In short, direct attachment of code is a thing of the past. ActionScript 3.0 simply doesn’t support it. Also, to add the Behaviors panel is dimmed when a FLA’s Publish Settings are configured for AS3, because Behaviors rely on on() or onClipEvent(). Change your Publish Settings to AS2 or 1, they come back.
I am in no ways an expert at Flash, I'm still learning, and now with Flash CS3 re-learning.
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