Importing Flashation files into Flash Tutorial

Adding a custom Flash Animation created with Flashation is a snap in Flash By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your viewers with your talents!

Please make sure that you have copied and pasted the Flashation file into the same directory as where you will save your Flash file which loads the with Flashation file into Flash.

First create you row/column of buttons in Flashation web menu builder. Make sure that you enter the correct GotoanPlay action per button in Flashation.

1. Open FLash.
2. Save the flash file as "loader.swf"
3. Left click in the first frame of the timeline.
4. Create a small Movie Clip (MC) and name the instance name "holder"
5. Right click in the first frame of the timeline. Now a popup menu appears. Click on "Actions"
6. Now the action windows menu pops up. Select from the left pane the loadmovie action.
7. Enter the name of your swf file (in this sample button.swf) , select target mc and enter in the corresponding input field the instance name you just assigned "holder".
8. Now a small "a" appears in the first frame of the timeline. This indicates that you have added some actionscript to this specific frame.
9. To see a preview of what we have created. Select "Control/Test Movie" The preview will not work as long you haven't save the loader.swf file yet.
10. When uploading the files to your webserver you must not only upload the loader.swf but also the separate Flashation file.

To see a sample of the above explnation please open the attached Flashsample.fla file in flash.

Good luck
Alex

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