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Flash Halloween Costume Dress-Up Doll II: Controls & Scripting

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Create a new layer, label it Actions, and then right-click on your first frame (you should only have one) and select Actions to open the Actions pane..

We need to make sure that all of the wearable versions of the costume options are invisible at the start of the movie, but we can’t do that by hiding the layers; when the movie is published, Flash automatically displays all available layers regardless of if they’re hidden on your working stage. So we need to use ActionScripts to set the visibility, but we don’t want to attach those scripts to an object. That’s why we’re placing them on their own frame instead.

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