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Add interactivity in Edge Animate

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Add interactivity in Edge Animate

No matter how you approach motion, if you want the user to control it, or for motion to happen at specific times, you will need to write the code that makes it happen. Even something as simple as a button rollover where a button changes color, requires a bit of HTML or Javascript code to tell the browser what to do. The neat thing about Animate is, even though it requires you to write a bit of code, most of what you need is already found in the snippets included with the application. This means code for simple stuff is reduced to somewhat of a point and click operation. So let's see how all this stuff works and wire up that button. To get started, open the autumn.an file in the 02-06 interactivity folder found in your exercise folder. When the file opens, press the spacebar and you'll see that your button is blinking away. This needs to be fixed because what it's doing is cycling through the various states of the button. Double click the button on the stage to enter edit and place…

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