Human Computer Interaction 1 (IMD07101)

Flash Practical Sessions

Practical Week 3

Flash Tutorials – Basic Tasks (2)

Prerequisites: Completed the Flash tutorials for the Week 2 Practical.

Before you start:

This week’s Practical should see the completion of the “Basic Tasks” section of Flash tutorials. There are four Flash tutorials to be completed for this week.

On completing the tutorials in this week’s practical you will have worked with the following in Flash:

·  Different types of layers

·  Input and dynamic text fields

·  Button component

·  Variables and values

·  Functions

·  Event handlers

·  Align, Component, Behaviours and Library panels

·  Movie clip, button and graphic symbols and instances (where appropriate)

Resources:

1.  Start and finished .fla files for each of the tutorials you need to copy to your working folder (see last week) can be found in the corresponding folders located in R:\Sch_Comp\multimedia & interactive systems\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Tutorial Assets\Basic Tasks\

2. 

The folders you need to copy are: “Work with Layers”, “Create an Application”, “Use Layout Tools” and “Create Symbols and Instances”.

3.  For those preferring to work from printed instructions, a PDF version of these tutorials are available for download and printing from the module web site (fl8_tutorials.pdf) or the adobe web site below: www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/documentation.html

Tasks:

Complete the following tutorials:

1.  Basic Tasks: Work with Layers

2.  Basic Tasks: Create an Application

3.  Basic Tasks: Use Layout Tools

4.  Basic Tasks: Create Symbols and Instances

The above tutorials are available in the Flash Tutorials book, which can be found in the Flash help system (select Help from the menu bar, or press F1 key). If you are unable to complete these during the practical, try and complete them in some of your independent study time.

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