Deconstructing the Paint Application I: Setup, Skins, Canvas Color, Help File
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
Changing skins is similar to the lesson on changing tabbed content using swapDepths; you’ll want to set up a symbol (preferably a movie clip, though button style will do as well) corresponding to each different skin. Clicking on this movie clip will change the skin.
Prev
- Starting Off
- Adding the layout
- Skins buttons
- Skins code
- Setting base values in scripts on the first frame
- The Canvas Color button
- Showing and hiding the help files
- Arranging the contents of the help files
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