User Guide

Chapter 11380
Assigning Flash actions
You can assign Flash actions to artwork you create in FreeHand in order to use the
FreeHand artwork in interactive Flash movies. You export the FreeHand
document with Flash actions as a SWF file, for display in the Flash Player.
In an interactive movie, your audience uses the keyboard, the mouse, or both to
jump to different parts of a movie, move objects, and perform many other
interactive operations.
To assign Flash actions in FreeHand, you use the Action area of the Navigation
panel. The Action area lists a subset of actions from ActionScript, the Flash
programming language. The following actions are available for use in FreeHand:
The Go To action jumps to a frame or scene. (Frames or scenes are created from
layers when you export an animation to Flash.)
The Play and Stop actions play and stop movies.
The Print action specifies which frames in a movie users can print directly from the
Flash Player.
The Full Screen action displays the movie in the Flash Player in full-screen mode,
rather than normal mode.
The Start/Stop Drag action makes a specified movie clip draggable when a
specified event occurs, and stops the draggable behavior when the opposite action
occurs. For example, if you assign On Press as the Start Drag event, FreeHand will
automatically assign On Release as the Stop Drag event.
The Load Movie and Unload Movie actions load and unload additional movies
when the current movie is playing (available only with documents that have two
or more pages).
The Tell Target action controls other movies and movie clips that were loaded into
the current movie with the Load Movie action (available only with documents
that have two or more pages). FreeHand allows only one level of loaded movies;
thus you can assign only one movie to load at a time.
When you assign an action, you also select an event that will cause the action to
run when the movie is played. Events that can trigger an action during movie
playback are the user clicking the mouse or the movie playhead reaching a
specified frame.
For some actions, including Go To, Print, Load/Unload Movie, and Tell Target,
you also select parameters that define how the action is to be applied.