How Do You Create An Interactive Timeline With Flash?
Most designers use Adobe Flash to create interactive movies. You create movies in Flash on a Timeline consisting of layers and frames. An “interactive Timeline” allows your movie’s users to click “hot spots,” usually buttons, to navigate to other parts of the movie’s Timeline, or to jump to external URL links to other Flash movies, Web pages, PDF files, and so on. Creating clickable buttons in Flash is a two-part process: placing and defining a button, or “button symbol,” instance on the stage, and then writing a corresponding ActionScript to interact with the button. Open the Flash FLA movie you want to make interactive in Flash. Click “Open” on the menu bar and choose “Open” to display the Open dialog box. Browse to the FLA file, select it, and then click the “Open” button. Go to the Timeline panel. Depending on your version of Flash, the Timeline panel is located either above or below the document window. Click the “New Layer” button—the first button in the lower-left corner of th
