To interact with the user, flash has a basic symbol: the button. It is the same as a classic button in all teh aplications you think, but flash have a distinctive treatment modus. We are going to see the Text tools too.

Text

There is a square in the tools menu to make texts. The properties are shown in the palette when you work with texts:

Warning: In the palette have the posibility to make a link.

Create buttons

It can be created,  with a symbol from a rectangle, for example:

1. Drag a form, rectangle, to the library
2. Select the symbol type Button.

The time axis is different in the buttons:

The usual pointer events:

• Stand: Draw button.
• Over: mouse over
• Push: pshing mouse
• Active zone: Limit the zone with activation of the pointer in the image.

To add an action is staying over the button and marking the action (in actionscript):

We can see an example with the las techiques explained (source):

Time axis with buttons

Na vigate from the time axis when you press a button (relase – when you take off the button), you can go to the 50 frame of the figure:

An example qe can see in the following Flash article.