This
is a very basic tutorial to help you get started
using the mouse events options that are offered
in Wildform Flair. Wildform Flair contains many
features that are not covered here. Instructions
on how to use these features are located in the
Help file of the Wildform Flair program itself.
We also offer numerous tutorials on how to use
Wildform Flair in the tutorials section of our
web site.
Open Wildform Flair and enter the project name.
The project stage is now ready.
To
begin we are going to create three plain text
effects to illustrate the features in the Mouse
Events tab of the Object Settings window. For
this tutorial we'll create 'Play Video', 'Reload'
and 'View Our Website'.
We will add rollovers to all and on-click mouse
actions to 'Play Video' and 'View Our Site'.
Open
the Create Text Effects box by selecting Text >Create
Text Effect menu.
Create
the 'Play Video' text with black font and a plain
text effect.
Create the 'Play Video' text with black font and a plain text effect. Next, create the exact same text 'Play Video' effect (same font, size) but with a red font color. Repeat this process for the 'Reload' and 'View Our Website' effects.
Click on the newly created red 'Play Video' text; note the name of the file (textEffect00) in the timeline.
Once
again click on the red 'Play Video' text and
delete it. You delete it because you are going
to use this as a mouse-over so you don't need
it right now, but you'll add it back later.
Click on the 'Play Video' text to activate it.
Open the Objects Tab in the Settings Window and click the Mouse Events tab.
In the "On Mouse Over Options" section
check the 'Add mouse over' box. Click browse
and the red text effect will be located in the
Source Files folder of your current project.
You
should see that if you place your mouse over
the 'Play Video' text, it turns into the red
'Play Video' text. This is just a nice way to
show viewers when they have activated a clickable
area of your project. You could also create this
project without mouseovers.
Repeat the same process for the remaining text
effects.
You may also create a mouseover by following the instructions in the Links & Mouseover Wizard located in the Shortcuts tab of the Settings Window.
We
will now ad a link to the 'View Our Website'
text. Click on that text to activate it.
Open the Object tab in the Settings Window and select the
Mouse Events tab. In the 'On Click Options' section
check the 'Add on click' box and select the 'Open
HTML page'.
Enter
in the web address in the URL form. If you wish
to specify a browser target, either enter one
or select from the drop-down list of most common.
The browser target tells the file in which browser
to open. The default is for the link to open
in the same browser.
We
will now format the 'Play Video' so your text
to be linked to another Flash SWF file that you
specify. It opens the Flash SWF you specify when
the Flash SWF is clicked on.
In the 'On Click Options' section check the 'Add
on click' box and select the 'Load Flash SWF
Movie'. Use the "Browse" button to
locate a specific Flash SWF. And you can use
the "Play" button to preview that Flash
SWF.
For
this tutorial we are going to target the SWF
into a transparent object (any files that are
loaded must be loaded into a target). So we right
click on the timeline and select Insert Transparent
Object.
To
help keep projects organized any file loaded
into Wildform Flair is automatically moved to
the “Load_External_Files” folder.
When
selected, this option will cause your movie to
jump to another frame in your movie that you
specify when the specified Flash SWF is clicked
on.
In the Target field you specify the name of the
slide in your project that you want to jump to
(if your project only has one slide then that
is the only option available).
In the frame field you specify the frame you
want to jump to.
Next we'll move all the objects on the timeline
to frame 2 (so the jump to frame will jump before
anything that appears in the project). Adjust
the project timeline so that play begins on frame
2 for each effect.
Click
on the Reload text effect, open the Object Settings
window and select the Mouse Events tab. Check
the Add on click box and click the jump to frame
button. Select your target and choose 0 for the
Frame number. This will cause the project to
start over again (like a loop).
The
user can now reload the project when clicking
the Reload text button.
You
have now created an interactive advertisement
which uses the mouse events features in the Object
settings window of Wildform Flair. You can format
and change the dimensions the project if you
wish.
To export your finished project select File>Export
File.
We
have now covered some of the Mouse Events available
in Wildform Flair. You can do much more with Wildform Flair;
other tutorials will cover these subjects. The
Wildform Flair help file also addresses these
topics.
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If you are not completely satisfied with our Flash multimedia software
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