1. Begin with a new Flash project.
2. Create a movie clip and a button -- you should know how to do this by now. [To create a movie clip: draw something, select it in its entirety, go to INSERT>CONVERT TO SYMBOL and make sure "Movie clip" is selected.] -- [To create a button: draw something, select it in its entirety, go to INSERT>CONVERT TO SYMBOL and make sure "Button" is selected.]
3. [illustrated above] Select the movie clip and name it -- in the above example, the movie clip is named "redOval." Note that the name is case sensitive, so I must remember that the O is capitalized. ["redOval" is the name of the instance of the movie clip.]
4. The movie clip and the button should be in your library.

created by Bill Struhar
October, 2002