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Using movie clips to create animated buttons

Using movie clips to create animated buttons - Flash Professional Tutorial

From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

Using movie clips to create animated buttons

Using movie clips you can create animated buttons. In this movie we'll look at how to do that. On the Stage I have an instance of a button symbol. If I double-click the button symbol, I can enter its timeline. If I go to the Over state, you can see that I have an instance of a movie clip. What I'm going to do is wrap this movie clip inside of another movie clip, and then animate the original one. I'll press F8 to convert this movie clip into a symbol, and this will wrap the movie clip inside of another movie clip. So make sure to choose Movie Clip for the Type, type ButtonAnimation for the Name, and then click OK. So now I can see I have an instance of ButtonAnimation selected. So I'll double-click the instance on the Stage and now I'm inside of ButtonAnimation. When I select the artwork on the Stage, I have an instance of a symbol in here and now I can make a motion tween. So I'll right-click, choose Create Motion Tween, I'll go to Frame 110 and then press F5 on my keyboard to extend…

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