How to add a play and pause button
Here are some instructions, for those of you that missed last weeks class.
1. First, draw pause and play buttons in the stage area.
2. Convert them to symbols, make sure to select “button” Name them appropriately.
3. Delete them from the stage.
4. Create layers for each.
5. Select the “Play” layer. Drag the play button from the library to the correct position on your stage.
6. Select the “Pause” layer. Drag the pause button from the library to the correct position.
7. Select the behaviors panel. If it is not open yet, select it under “windows”.
8. Select the Play layer. In the Behaviors panel, click the Add Behavior button to open a menu of behaviors. Select Movie clip and then Goto and Play at frame or label. Select _Root, choose Absolute and start it at frame 1. If you get an error at this point involving Actionscript 3, make sure you select Actionscript 2 when given the option (by clicking through on the error message)
9. Do the same thing as #8 but for the pause layer. Instead of Go To and Play, chose Go To and Stop.
10. Save your file.
11. Export movie as a .SWF and publish to Astro. Post to blog.
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