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 1.
Set your fill color to a radial gradient, choosing maroon as the outside
color and red as the inside color. Set your line tool to black.
2. Select your oval tool and draw a circle.
3. Using your rectangle tool, draw two rectangles inside your circle.
4. Using your arrow tool to bring the bottom corners of the rectangles
together in the center to make a point. Use your arrow tool to highlight the
lines separating the two figures and
 hit
your backspace key to remove this line. Click on the fill of the arrow and
backspace to remove the fill.
5. Using your arrow tool, select the entire image. Click Insert=>convert
to symbol with properties of graphic. While this is highlighted, Click
insert=>convert to symbol again. (By creating the symbols this way you
are assured the circles are centered in each symbol. This will make a nicer,
smoother tween later on.) Name the image pointer, and set it to the
properties of a movie clip. On the instance panel call this instance
pointer.
 6.
Double click this image. Rotate the image so it points to about 1pm. Click
in Frame 6 and hit your F6 key to insert a key frame. In frame 6, rotate
this image to point to about 6pm. Click on Frame 1 and then on the frames
panel, change the tweening to motion. Insert a layer 2 and put a stop action
for that layer frame 1-6.
7. Click back on Scene 1 to return to your movie. Insert a layer 2 by
right clicking layer 1. Drag layer two under layer 1. Draw a red circle
directly under the arrow on layer 1, and import and paste the image on layer
2 so that you can see the faces through your arrow..
 8. Click Insert=> New symbol. Name it button and give it the properties
of a button.
- On frame 1, draw a small circle using the oval tool set to a radial
gradient of white to black.
-
 Click
on frame 2 and hit F6. This will copy the contents to the rollover frame.
change the fill color there to red-black radial gradient.
- Click on Frame 3 and hit F5
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Insert
a Layer by right clicking layer 1 on this symbol and selecting insert
layer. Insert a key frame in layer 2 frame 2(mouseover)
- Open your sound panel and select your lock break sound, set to event.
 9.
Click back on your main scene. Open your library and drag 6 copies of your
button onto your stage, positioning them at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 o'clock along
the circle. Use your text tool to type the label for each button next to it.
10. Scripting the buttons- Open your action panels.
- Click on the first button. On the action panel, select
+=>actions=>evaluate.
- Click on the release line in the actions panel and check rollover
also.
- Click on the s3econd line that has only the semicolon;, and click in
the box below.
- Click the target symbol on the lower right corner of the action panel
and find under absolute pointer. Click ok.
- On the action panel click +=>objects=>movireclips=>gotoAndStop. Add a
number 1 to the brackets.
- Click to the bottom of the action scripts, the last night in the box
above. Click +=>Basic Actions=>Get URL
- Type in the url for your home link. I used
http://www.developingwebs.net
- The following text box has what should be in the actions panel for the
first button and reads like this: On release AND rollover, tell the
pointer to stop at frame 1, on release get the url for developingwebs.
If you have trouble using the action script panel or are in Flash MX, try
going to expert mode and pasting the script from above directly in your
action script panel. Button 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 should appear as follows, with
the frame number changing to 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 and he appropriate link
being inserted.
AND YOUR DONE! Please let me know when you have tried it
with your own applications! You can use this in many different ways!
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