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boke
11-24-2007, 07:28 AM
I'm an english teacher in japan and am attempting for me anyway) an ambitious flash project. I want to make a flash that teaches the alphabet letters in different ways. I'm trying to make all of the following in one flash

1-a movieclip that shows students how to write an A,B,C ect (stroke order), I have a hand holding a pencil and as the hand goes over the letter it "writes" , the letter becomes black where the hand was

2-A movie clip (actually video clip would be best)of a mouth pronouncing "A" and maybe a phonetic word ,like "A Apple"

3-A printable word and letter page, like a big "A" and an apple next to it, again here I need a button to play the #2 voice file (don't need the video), and a button to print it out

4-Last a printable practice sheet that has A and a little apple and spaces for them to practice writing the letter( a little different from #3 in that this is more like homework)

I want to make all the upper case and lower case letters with all of the above four options

I was thinking of having the four options be 4 buttons and using the simple gotoAndPlay function, and just putting the 4 in different parts of the timeline.
Would this work?Is there a better way to do this? How can I do it for all of the letters?

Thanks for any help , here is a page of what I'm attempting to do
http://www.l-ch.tv/kids/elementary.php look at the "phonics" part

majicassassin
12-05-2007, 06:05 AM
What version of Flash are you using?
If you're using one w/ actionscript 2.0 (MX or 8), then what you're thinking of is fine. I would have each frame handle itself, but check a global variable to figure out what letter it should be doing.
If you're using one w/ actionscript 3.0 you need to put everything into a document class and let that just create what it is you want to be displaying (so no frames on te root timeline).