From the course: Prototyping Microinteractions with Adobe Animate

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Long press - Adobe Animate Tutorial

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Long press

- [Instructor] Another gesture which is very common on mobile touch devices is the long press. Normally, this is used to select an item or open a menu of choices upon some item. We'll create the effect of our object scaling up a bit and then holding, to simulate this gesture. All right, the first thing we'll do is go to our library and what we want to do this time is duplicate the G underscore tap gesture graphic symbol. So, select it, and right click and choose Duplicate. We'll name this G underscore long press. And hit okay. I'm actually going to clean up the timeline a bit, by selecting both the double tap and the tap layers and deleting them. I'll also unlock the button layer and create a new layer, renaming it long. All right. So, what we need to do is drag out our long press instance onto our button, and then enter into the symbol itself by double clicking, which allows us to modify the timeline. So right now we have our tap and what we basically want to do is extend this…

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