Interactivity

Question

I'm by no means a Flash whiz. I use it from time to time to
create relatively simple animation for the web. A current project
at work requires that we create interactivity into the Flash page.
Mainly, I just need to create buttons that when clicked will play
different sections of the timeline and stop (or just switch the
visible content in some other way). I can't for the life of me
figure this out, and it seems it should be easy. I could do it in
html without blinking an eye. The help files don't seem to be
helping. At least I can't make it work when I try to follow the
extremely vague instructions.
Is there an easy way to explain how to make a button that
allows interactivity? Or is this going to be way beyond the
abilities of a casual user?
For the record, I'm still using Macromedia Flash. We won't be
upgrading to Adobe CS for this project, so if the process is
different in CS than in the Macromedia version, I'd need to know
how to make it work in Macromedia.

Answer 1

Flash buttons work by adding actionscript to the buttons.
Once you've created the button, goto Windows Menu....and open up
the Actions Menu. In the actions window, your text to make it the
button work should be an "on release" action. It should look like
the following:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay (12);
.........or
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(12);
This will make the button goto Frame 12 on the time
line.