Create Automatic Scroller

This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash. You may get Flash Designer here.

The text will scroll when you move the mouse over the arrows.

Follow the steps below:

1. Launch Flash Designer and create a blank document.
2. Size the frame at about 300x300 ("Frame" > "Frame Size").
3. Set the frame delay to "Stop" ("Frame" > "Frame Delay").
4. Draw a button with the "Button" tool. While the object is selected choose "Edit" > "Move To" and use X:0 Y:0 Width:80 Height:24
5. Double click the button and rename from "Button1" to "Page 1"
6. Duplicate "Page 1" button with "Edit" > "Duplicate", use Step X: 100, Step Y: 0 and count 2 to create 2 new buttons.
7. Rename buttons to "Page 2" and "Page 3" respectively.
8. Create new frame with "Frame" > "New" command. Frame will appear as "Frame 2". Set frame background to "Frame 1" (buttons should appear on the new frame). Make sure new frame has delay set to "Stop".
9. Add 2 new frames that will appear as "Frame 3" and "Frame 4"
10. Go back to "Frame 2" and add "Page 1 contents" text with the "Text" tool. Center the text on the frame with "Edit" > "Align" > "Center on Frame".
11. Hit Ctrl+C to copy the text to clipboard.
12. Go to "Frame 3" and paste the text. Double-click the text and change it to "Page 2 contents". Repeat the same for "Frame 4"

The next step is to define mouse actions:

1. Go to "Frame 1"
2. Select "Page 1" button. Choose "Item" > "Actions" > "OnClick". Select "Go to Frame" options and choose "Frame 2". Click OK.
3. Select "Page 2" button. Choose "Item" > "Actions" > "OnClick". Select "Go to Frame" options and choose "Frame 3". Click OK.
4. Select "Page 3" button. Choose "Item" > "Actions" > "OnClick". Select "Go to Frame" options and choose "Frame 4". Click OK.

Hit F9 to preview the movie.

Download source project t1038.zip