How do you make buttons go to the next scene in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional?
I'm trying to make a presentation with buttons to go to the next or previous scene but whatever I try doesn't work. I already looked through a lot of tutorials and none of them worked for me.
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how to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash SC4
"Convert PowerPoint to Flash" has been the hot topic on Internet. Put this phrase into Google or Bing, you can easily get a huge number of web links there. Comparing with PowerPoint, Flash has more advantages for circulating presentation online or offline. Flash can be played directly on every computer and Internet, while PowerPoint has many limitations; Flash can only be played and hardly to be edited by others; the size of the converted Flash presentation can be reduced to almost 80%.
So we know "Convert PowerPoint to Flash" is a trend, but how to do that? Should you we do it with PowerPoint? So far Microsoft hasn't added this function in it. How about doing it with Adobe Flash? If you have the time and if you are familiar with Adobe Flash – then it can be one of your choices! Today let’s see how to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash SC4.
First, save the PowerPoint presentation as WMF files, it applies to PowerPoint 2007.
1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint, click the Office button-> Save As-> Other Formats, then Save As dialog box appears, choose Windows Metafile (*.WMF) in the Save as type drop-down list, and click Save.
Notes: WMF is a vector format, and Flash accepts all vector formats. These WMF files can be resized without losing their resolution.
2. A message window appears asking if you want to export every slide or just the current slide, click the Every Slide button. Then another massage window states the folder where the WMF slides have been saved.
Secondly, import these WMF slides to Adobe Flash CS4.
1. Open Adobe Flash CS4, create a new Flash document. Please select Action Script 2.0.
2. Now choose File-> Import-> Import to Stage.
3. Then the Import dialog box appears; select the folder where the WMF files were saved, and click the first file. Click Open.
4. There will be a message asking if you want to import the entire sequence, click Yes.
5. Then the files are imported to Adobe Flash CS4, go to File-> save-> save as the Flash (.FLA) file.
6. Go to Modify -> Ungroup.
Notes: The ungroup option converts all PowerPoint slide objects as individual components in Flash that can be animated using native Flash options.
Thirdly, export the Flash file as an SWF file from Adobe Flash CS4.
Notes: Before exporting the Flash FLA file to a SWF file, make sure that the WMF file dimension and the Flash movies dimensions are the same.
1. Click on any of the imported images, then click Properties panel, you can see the dimension of this image.
2. Click the Modify -> Document, then Document Properties dialog box appears; change the dimensions to match those of the imported WMF files, and at the same time do remember change the Frame rate to .25 fps. Then click OK.
3. From the File menu, choose Export-> Export Movie.
4. Choose the output folder, and then click OK to export.
Then you can get the SWF files, the PowerPoint presentation is converted to Flash.
Pay Attention:
In this way you can only convert the whole presentation to the static images or bitmaps, all settings of timing, transition and animation cannot be saved. If the presentation contain some multi-media elements, such as music or video, it is obvious that all of them will become just static images or disappeared.
If you think this tutorial is so complicate and verbose that you don’t spend time on it, and also want to prevent dynamic design and multi-media elements in your presentation from being converted to static/bitmap pictures, you can try some professional converting softwares, such as Wondeshare PPT2Flash, Articulate Presenter etc, all of them can as well help you converting PowerPoint to Flash with easier steps.
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How to Create Interactive Multiple-choice Quiz in Adobe Flash CS4
Quiz Maker supplies an easy way to create interactive Flash quiz, Adobe Flash also lets users make interactive Flash quiz too.This tutorial will guide you how to create interactive drop-down multiple-choice quiz in Adobe Flash. This short tutorial is just a sample of the workflow you'll use while authoring in Adobe Flash CS4. Step 1 - Create a new document a. Choose File > New. b. In the New Document dialog box, selcet Flash File (ActionScript 2.0) and then Click OK.
Step 2 - Document settings Right-click on the stage, selcet Document Properties, then the Document Properties dialog box appears. It displays the current Stage size setting as 550 × 400 pixels, and the Background color swatch is set to white. You can change the size and color of the Stage as you want.Step 3 - Import image to the stage Choose File > Import > Import to Stage, and then select the image you want. You also could click Ctrl+R to import image.Step 4 - Add the multiple choice question to the Stage a. Select the Text tool (T). b. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Static Text type to specify the type of text field, and then input the question " What was Michael's first song to air on MTV? ". You also could set the font size, family and color of the text. Step 5 - Add ComboBox component a. Select Window > Components.b. Double-click ComboBox in the Components panel. c. Select the component on the Stage, and name the instance name as box in the properties panel.Step 6 - Add answer options a. Select Window > Component Inspector. On the Component Inspector, click data, then the Value dialog box appears. b. Click + to add answer options, and then replace the defaultValue as answer options, here the options are: thriller, billie jean, bad and the way you make me feel. After that, click OK. c. On the Component Inspector, click labels, then the Value dialog box appears. Please following the same steps above to add the values by adding the + button. Step 7 - Add submit button a. Select Window > Common Libraries > Buttons, then the Libraries buttons dialog pop up.b. Choose a button and drag it to stage.c. Double-click the button, and then rename the button as Submit. You also could set the size of the button at the Propertites panel. Step 8 - Insert a keyframe and delete the elements on the frame Step 9 - At keyframe 2, insert a dynamic text box a. Select the Text tool (T). b. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Dynamic Text type. c. Draw a rectangular text box, this is the feedback area when quiz-takers choose the right or wrong answer. d. Select the rectangular text box, and input jg to the Variable box at the Properties panel. Step 10 - At At keyframe 2, add Back button Just following the same steps at step 8 to add button rename the button as Back. Step 11 - Open the Action panel and add scripts a. Add scripts to Back button.Click the Back button, input the following scripts: on (release) { gotoAndStop(1); jg = ""; } b. Add scripts to Submit button.Click the Submit button, input the following scripts: on (press) { if (box.getValue() == "billie jean") { jg = "Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!"; } if (box.getValue() == "bad") { jg = " Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!"; } if (box.getValue() == "the way you make me feel") { jg = " Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!"; } if (box.getValue() == "thriller") { jg = "Congratulations! Triller is Michael's first song to air on MTV"; } gotoAndStop(2); } c. Add scripts on frame 1. Click frame 1, input the following scritps: stop(); Step 12 - After these steps, the question is created. You could follow these steps to create more multiple choice questions If that's too complicate to you, you could choose some 3rd party quiz makers to make multiple choice quiz for you. Wondershare QuizCreator is such a good Flash quiz maker that help you create multiple Flash quiz with ease.
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