Use Slider to control timeline of tweened animation

I have 3 pictures and animated it using motion tween as
usual.
Now, I want to create a slider so that user can drag along
forward and backward so that the tweened animation moves
accordingly. Eg the whole motion ends in 10 sec
If user drag slider to far right it goes to 10 sec frame and
if it position to middle the movie go to 5th sec. etc.
How to do this to associate the slider to frames ? The adobe
official site does not have document on this. Please help.
Thanks.

You have to make your own slider.
Sliders are based on the idea to find the percentage of the
position of scroller to it's maximum position as a ratio 0-1 (0
left, 1 right) and multiplying that ratio with a value (in your
case the number of frames). As least that way I can think of them
and create them.
You can utilize this link I just created to solve your
problem, where you move a scroller/slider to navigate into the
timeline:
http://www.sp7.gr/adobe_forum_data/06_TimeLine_Slider.zip
I tried to make the slider portable, thus you can initialize
it with a preferred width and set the number of frames it will
handle...

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Timeline Document development using actionscript 2.0 for the
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> Interested in all opinions or comments concerning
experiences
> with the limitations or extendability of Slide
Presentation Vs.
> Timeline Document development using actionscript 2.0
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completely off
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Very little experience with screens (because I don't care
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don't much care
for.
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lean-but-powerful
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Ditto.
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This is reflected in my views on Pros and Cons.
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Ditto.
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