FLASH TUTORIAL

1-Simple animation of circle.
STEP

1. Select File > New.
2. In the New Document dialog box, Flash Document is selected by default. Click OK.
   In the Property inspector, the Size button displays the current Stage size setting as 550 x 400 pixels.
3. The Background color swatch is set to white. You can change the color of the Stage by clicking the swatch and selecting a different color
4. Draw the circle in stage.
5. Click Frame 20 of Layer 1 in the Timeline.
   Selecting Frame 20 of Layer 1 in the Timeline
   
6. Select Insert > Timeline > Frame. Flash adds frames to Frame 20, which remains selected.
   
   Frames inserted in the Timeline
   
7. With Frame 20 still selected, select Insert > Timeline > Keyframe. A keyframe is added in Frame 20. A keyframe is a frame where some property of an object is explicitly changed. In this new keyframe, you will change the circle's location.
   
   Inserting a keyframe in Frame 20
   
8. With Frame 20 still selected in the Timeline, drag the circle to just right of the Stage area.
9. Select Frame 1 of Layer 1 in the Timeline.
10. In the Property inspector (its default location is at the bottom of the Flash application window), select Motion from the Tween pop-up menu.
    Selecting a motion tween in the Property inspector
    
    An arrow appears in the Timeline in Layer 1 between Frame 1 and Frame 20.
    
    The Timeline with an arrow indicating a motion tween
    
    This step creates a tweened animation of the circle moving from its position in the first keyframe in Frame 1 to its new position in the second keyframe in Frame 20. For more information on tweening, see Creating Motion, in Using Flash.
11. In the Timeline, drag the red playhead back and forth from frame 1 to frame 20 to preview the animation.
12. Select File > Save.
13. Choose a location for the file on your hard disk and name the file SimpleFlash.fla.
14. Select Control > Test Movie to test the FLA file.
15. Close the Test Movie window