Exploring button symbols

Let's take a look at the third and final type of symbol in Flash, the button symbol.…I'll be working in just a blank FLA document.…Let's create a button by grabbing our Rectangle tool.…I am going to choose a black stroke a blue fill and then under Rectangle Options,…I am going to bump up the rounded corners measurement so we get slightly rounded corners.…I will type in 10. And I am going to draw a rectangle on the Stage.…The next step is probably familiar.…Using my Arrow tool, I am going to select the rectangle shape and now…right-click and choose Convert to Symbol.…

I am going to give it a name of boxButton.…In the Type dropdown, I am going to make sure that this is a button and click OK.…If you flip over to your library, you'll see the new symbol.…Buttons in the library have an icon of a finger pressing down on a button.…Now let's double-click on the instance on the Stage to go into the button's own timeline.…You will notice that just like with the other symbol types, the upper-left says…