Flash

Going Further

Inserting Key Frames | Exporting Shockwave | Going Further

So far we've just shown you a tiny glimpse of what Flash can do. Without much additional effort, we can add buttons, sound, and a "creative" motion tween to the animation we created earlier to make it into the one shown below. Test drive the animation below by clicking on the "Go" button:

Yet even this enhanced version hardly begins to indicate the range of what you can do with Flash. In particular, the program now permits a degree of interactivity between animation and user that makes Flash especially useful in educational applications. For example, interactive CDROMs to accompany texts for biology and genetics have been developed entirely in Flash by LightCone Interactive.