Flash MX2004 Slideshow Tutorial

by Cressida Goddard

Making a Slide Show

1. Open a new flash document
2. Create a layer called images and import about 5 images onto the timeline
   
3. Now make an actions layer and keep it on top.
   
4. Select the 1st frame in the actions layer and go to Window >> Development Panels >> Actions to open the actions panel.

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5. In the actions tool box choose Global Functions - Timeline control and double click on stop to add a stop action. This will cause the movie to stop when it first appears on the screen allowing users to control their viewing of your pictures.
   
   

   There should be a little 'a' on the timeline.	The actions panel should look like this.

6. Now create 2 new layers called butforward and butprevious.
7. From the library drag a forward button and a back button onto the stage. Window - Other Panels - Common libraries - Buttons.
   Make sure they are on their correct layers.
   
8. Now click on each button and name each object in the instance text box in the Properties panel next_btn and prev_btn.
   
9. Select the 1st frame again in the actions layer and go to Window >> Development Panels >> Actions to open the actions panel.
10. Type the following code exactly after the stop action you wrote previously:

    // next button
    next_btn.onRelease = function() {
    	gotoAndStop(_currentframe+1);
    };
    
    // previous button
    prev_btn.onRelease = function() {
    	gotoAndStop(_currentframe-1);
    };
    

11. Then you can play your slideshow.