| It was about time
for me to buckle down and learn some Flash stuff for real. So I bought some
books, I took an online course, and I started trying to do some serious
coordinated work in this application. |
Where did I get the music?
From <Flashkit.com>:
Where everyone gets Flash doodads when they need them in a pinch. I got
some of the button sounds there, but others I found on other sites. They
were all offered free. |
| Where did I get
the graphics? I made them. The weird little desert plants are growing in
my front yard. In real life, they are not purple. They are green. I took
a digital photo and then did things to it in Photoshop. |
| The two things I learned the
most about in making this Flash movie: (1) Sound files. (2) Getting movie
clips to control other movie clips. |
This is also the first movie
for which I built a preloader. Whee! But in the end I probably don't really
need it, because the whole SWF file is only 56 KB. |
| The main timeline here is only
20 frames. I have about eight movie clips embedded in it (not counting the
clips inside clips). If you have never used Flash, you don't know what the
heck I'm talking about. But if you have never used Flash, why are you reading
this? |
At first I put the music loop
inside the movie, making the movie file size more than 200 KB. But then
I used "attachSound" instead, and the file size went back to something
reasonable. |
| When a movie clip ends, in
some cases, it tells a different movie clip to start. Of course, if you've
been using Flash for a long time, you're not one bit surprised by that. |
Where did I get the scrollbars?
I made them myself! I used the code and advice I found at the <ActionScript
Toolbox>, but then I modified them a little bit. |
