How do I make a simple swf made up of a series of pictures the user advances by clicking?
I'm shwoing a step by step process on how I did a photoshop piece, and I want to have a simple flash swf that goes through each of the screenshots at the viewer's pace, by them clicking. I wasn't even thinking so complicated as to include forward/back buttons, even just somethign so simple as having the entire image clickable to move 'forward' and when it gets to the end it just loops or something. super simple, i would do an animaged gif but i want it to be at the user's own pace. but if you think of how an animated gif cycles that's how simple i want it to be. also a few of fading/dissolivng between the images would be cool.
Could anyone who knows flash give me some pointers?
If you want simple, just place the images sequentially, one each per frame, along the timeline. Then add an actions layer and place a stop(); command in the first frame of that layer. Then add a button to the stage and code it to use nextFrame(); How you code it depends on which version of actionscript you are planning to use, but nextFrame works for either. What nextFrame does is advances you to the next frame and stops, so you only need the one stop() on the timeline to have the movie stopped when it loads.
The more features you want to add, the more complicated it gets, so for the moment I'll leave you with the most simplified approach above.
If you want to have transitions between images, then you need to deal with adding timeline tweens that fade them in/out as desired. Although, what you could do instead is have a movieclip on a layer above the images that fades in and out on command. The contents of it would simply be a rectangle graphic symbol that is the same color as the stage, but has its alpha value at 0 in the first frame (with a stop()), and then fades in and out again. So the button controls the playing of that movieclip, and when that movieclip reaches the point where the rectangle is in full view, that movieclip commands the main timeline to advance to the nextFrame()
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