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Creating a Flash Preloader. To keep visitors waiting for your animation to load you should always display a preloader and advise users how long they will have to wait. In Flash you have to program the preloader manually using getBytesLoaded, getBytesTotal and gotoAndPlay functions. Fortunately Flash Designer does the ActionScript part for you, all you [...]

How to Make Frame Flow and Jumps in Flash Designer. This tutorial explains how to change default animation flow in Flash Designer. By default the animation runs from the first frame to the last frame and then it loops to the beginning. Each frame lasts 1 second on the screen. In the following examples we [...]

How to create Mouse Over Effect. To create a frame that will appear when the user moves the mouse over some item: Launch Flash Designer. Choose “Frame” > “Frame Size” to set movie dimensions (400 x 200). Choose “Text” tool and click on the frame. Type the text (for example “mouse over”) and click OK. [...]