REQUIRED:

• Foundation Flash MX
  Read and do the practice work for the "Sound and Video" chapter.

1. Start Flash
2. Save the file as BUTTONS.
3. Set the Width to 300px the Height to 200px, leave the background as white.
4. Rename the layer to "buttons"
5. Create a button symbol, named mybutton.
6. Edit the mybutton symbol and create a circle radial gradiant for the up state, a red radial gradiant for the over state, a reduced radial gradiant for the down state and use the up state for the hit state.
7. Return to the Scene and insert 4 instances of the mybutton symbol. Align each instance into the top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right corner.
8. Use the scale tool to resize each instance.
9. Use the text tool to label each button. Refer to the image below.
10. Use the effects panel to (refer to the image below for help):
    • Tint Button1 yellow
    • Reduce the brightness of Button2
    • Make Button3 nearly transparent
    • Tint Button4 blue
11. Save the file.
12. Test the movie by using the Test Movie command from the Control menu.
13. Compare to the image below
    
    with onion skin turned on
    
    
    actual animation (.swf file)
    

1. Create a new file and use the necessary tools to replicate the swf file below.
   
   
   
   actual animation (.swf file)
   
   
2. Movie and Instance Properties
• Movie Width: 300px
• Movie Height: 200px
• Using the Practice file, Buttons incorporate Movie Clip Symbols into the over and down state of the button symbol, mybutton.
• The movie clip symbol over should be a circle with radial gradiant that is off center. The movie clip symbol should spin clockwise over 20 frames, so that the center of the gradiant rotates around the edge of the circle.
• The movie clip symbol down should be a circle with radial gradiant that is off center. The movie clip symbol should spin counter clockwise over 7 frames as well as scale down in size.
3. Save the file as CIS120DC11

Send in Your Assignment to be Graded

After you have read these instructions, click on the link "Submit my assignment for grading" below. This will create a message for you to use to send in your assignment to the CIS120DC grader. It already will have the message address and the subject line filled in. DO NOT CHANGE THE ADDRESS OR THE SUBJECT LINE. Enter the following required information as the message text:

• your full name
• your palette account username
  • If you do not know your palette username, use your student ID card at a palette account lookup station in HTC1 or HTC2. If you are off campus, call the Student Help Desk at 623.845.HELP (4357) or send an email message to student-helpdesk@student.gc.maricopa.edu to request your palette username.
• you email address
• course section number
• Attach the CIS120DC11.FLA file to the email.

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