Very First Steps into Flash Problem.

[Tobin83]

I want to make a flash image that starts off with a single image, then brings up a box (from the bottom) that has some text in it. The text will be followed at the end by a "more" link to get more of the story or article.

Can someone please tell me the steps to going about doing this?

Thanks a million, I am just learning so I'm sure this is easy. Thanks again in advance.

Tobin

[SeanW]

Still green myself, but

Frame 1 - draw your background
Frame 2 - mark as a keyframe (F6), draw the box at its starting position, off the stage if need be
Frame N (N is determined by how long you want the delay to be) - move the box from frame 2 to where you want it to end up. Mark as keyframe.

Then go to an intermediate frame, ie frame 3, select the box, and in the properties of the box, select a motion tween.

For the clickable object, I don't quite remember how to do it, you need an onClick handler. From within the flash help, look for the banner tutorial, it'll take you through this whole process far better than I can.

Sean

[Richard_N]

Depends where the more link is going to, its easier once you know what your doing to do the whole thing with actionscript and keep the movie to one frame. You can also get a far more fluid motion with actionscript than you can with tweening.

If the more link is in a static text box and the link to the further content is an external URL then simply highlighting the text and completing the link box on the properties panel will do it, if not you need to provide a bit more idea as to the structure of your movie, but basically your going to need an onPress() event handler asigned to an invisible button.