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Flash Tutorial: Simple Links

This tutorial is designed for people who have little or NO Experience of using Flash. The aim of the tutorial is to:

Show you how to link one Flash 'page' with another 'page'. Page is in inverted commas because Flash does not really have pages but frames, but the idea is the same.

Note: Don't get Flash 'frames' mixed up with HTML 'frames'. They are completely different.

Confused already? Well actually this is not difficult (hopefully)!

Cross Ref: If you wish to learn how to make a hyperlink, a link from a Flash movie to a new web page, go to the beginners tutorial: Hyperlinks

My Example: Download the Flash file  Beg 004a

Click on the triangle button.

New: See Movie of how to build this Flash file

Example of small Flash Movie with buttons linking one 'page' or frame of the flash movie to the next.

Step One: Setting up the document

We are going to open a new Flash document and customise it.

1. Go to: File > New > General Tab > Flash Document > OK

Note: The work space in Flash is often quite cluttered with Panels. Panels are tool boxes and although useful - much of the time you don't need them and I think for beginners they are confusing. For this reason we are going to close then all except for the Timeline and Tools. You can turn these Panels off and On in the Windows Menu.


Only the Timeline and Tools are open.

Note: You should also close all the Panels that you will find in the sub menus. The sub menus can be accessed via the little triangles:



2. We are now ready to customise the document. Go to: Modify > Document.
3. Type in the dimensions that you want for your movie. The one above is 200 x 130 px (pixels).
4. Select a background colour by clicking on the coloured swatch.
5. Click: OK.
6. Save your file
   
   
   Your Document Properties should look like this.