This on-line lesson involves the creation of a movie clip and a button. You will be able to control various properties of the movie clip with the button. For example, by pressing the button you can change the transparency, or the position, or the rotation of the movie clip. The purpose of this lesson is to increase your understanding of how various parts of a movie can talk to each other using named instances and ActionScript.

The lesson is composed of 6 pages.
If you run into problems, you can send questions to our class discussion list: flashclass@yahoogroups.com.

If you are new to this kind of thing you might want to go through the lesson several times. When you are comfortable with this lesson, you can create your own variations as explained at the end of the lesson.