Overview

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 offer numerous ways to engage users with interactivity. Additionally, when you incorporate interactivity, you're not limited to playing each Timeline frame sequentially, which offers greater design and development options. You'll learn some of the ways to implement interactivity in this lesson as you accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a new scene
• Write ActionScript to navigate between scenes
• Write ActionScript to play an animated movie clip at runtime
• Use a behavior to play an MP3 file

Note: If you have Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you can use screens to create a document. Screens provide additional navigation options. Slide screens, for example, already include built-in navigation that allows users to move through screens using keyboard arrow keys. For more information about screens, see Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only).