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Flash Animation 9: Adding Interactivity with Buttons

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Editing the Second Button

This time you're going to edit the "Up" stage before copying it over to your other stages; it should be changed to reflect your second choice. In my case I've changed the text to "Green" and adjusted the hues on the gradient and stroke for the bullet. Then you'll copy over to your "Over" state, and change the colors to match the way you changed the button for your first option, again making it look highlighted (I chose to use different colors to reflect the choices available, but if you just have a particular effect that you want to use for the rollover, then I would suggest leaving the shapes from your first option on the "Over" and "Down" states and just changing the text, to save yourself the trouble of recreating the exact same effect). Then you'll copy the "Over" state to the "Down" state; don't forget, for consistency, to shift your button the same number of pixels that you shifted the "Down" state for option one, if you chose to create the "depressed" effect.
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