Help With Bringing My Photoshop Designed Concept To Life In Flash CS3

Question

Ok basically i have made a flat image on photoshop
of what i want my flash file to look like
I do not really have any experience in Action scritping
so im hoping you guys can just pick at the image nd tell me
how to do some of the stuff
I dont expect someone to tell me how to do everything
although it would be very much appreciated
I think what im really trying to make here is a scrollable
text field
and a mini photoviewer directions to tutorials or given codes
will be appreciated
But here is the link to the concept i designed -
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s94/JDot_Ltd/HomePageConceptcopy.png

Answer 1

Hi -- just a few comments --
The easiest way to get scrollable text is to use the TextArea
component (open the Components window, drag a TextArea component
onto your stage, change the X,Y,Width and Height properties in the
Properties window, and switch to the Parameters window (while the
component is selected) to change the text. However, that won't look
as cool as what you want so you may want to program your own.
In broad terms, you'll create a Symbol for each of the
following: the Up arrow in the scrollable text, the Down arrow, the
Next button for the photos, and the Previous button. When you drag
each of those symbols to the stage, you'll give the instance a name
in the Properties window. Then in the Actions window you'll add
some code to add event listeners to each of those instances on the
CLICK event, and the functions you write to be the event listeners
will move the text around or change the image.
If you know and have Illustrator it might be a preferable
design tool -- it's easy to copy your vector art directly from
Illustrator to Flash and have small file size for your SWF.
Good luck,
Bob