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Overview

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4
1  Pulldown-and-Dirty
2 On Our Menu for Today
3 tellTarget and the Pulldown Menu
4 Make that Menu Disappear
5 Make them Wait
6 Putting it Out There
7 Exporting Sound as MP3
8 Taking Things One Step Further




Becoming a Flash 5 Master
Lesson 4

by Michael Kay

Page 1 — Pulldown-and-Dirty

By now you've been through the ringer, creating all kinds of animations and simple actions. In the last lesson you began to use the ever-so-amazing tellTarget action. Well, get ready, because there's more.

In this lesson, you'll be creating something like the pulldown-and-dirty example shown here. (If you haven't already, please click around to see what it can do.) Pretty neat, especially when you consider the kinds of interaction you could create using this fairly tame pulldown menu.

You're probably already on intimate terms with the pulldown menu. Take a look at Flash, for instance. Just go to the top menu and click on Edit, Insert, or Modify, and a list of more specific options is revealed. These pulldowns are key in just about any application -- on the Web or on your desktop -- and now you're going to create one of your very own.

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