How to add click action

Question

I am trying to add an action to my animation. I would like to click on an image and start play from a time on timeline..... I found this http://http://jbkflex.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/adding-events-to-your-adobe-edge-html5-anim ations/which seemed like it may work but when I saved my file no .css file was created.... I am ripping my hair out trying to figure this out.... please help....

Answer 1

Hi there,
That link appears to be broken. I'm not sure what you mean by "no .css file was created". Edge does not directly use .css files.
To add a button action to an object in Edge is straightforward. See this video at the 2:00 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysReea4yyys
Here's a breakdown of how to add a click event to an object:
1) click the curly braces to the left of the object in the Elements panel. This will launch the code event panel for your object.
2) click the "+" button at top left and select "click", to add a click event to your object.
3) assuming your object is on the root Stage, you can use the code presets at the right of your click event. Click the "play from" button at right of the events panel. This will insert sym.play(1000); which tells the timeline to play from the 1 second mark. You can change the play parameter to a frame label, say "intro", like this: sym.play("intro");
Look at the Edge Animate API for more details on the play method:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/edgeanimate/api/current/index.html