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Adding Behaviors to Buttons (Continued)

9. Finally, select the stop button on the Stage and, in the Actions panel, add another on(release) event. This time, we’re going to tell Flash to return to the beginning of the animation and stop. With the cursor positioned between the curly braces, double-click the gotoAndStop action in the Timeline Control folder.

Notice that Flash displays a code hint when additional parameters are required:

The code hint tells us that it needs a frame number—frame appears in bold in the hint, indicating what’s currently needed. Type 1 for frame 1:

10. Save the file and test the movie. Click each button to see how it responds.

This was a simple example of adding actions using the Actions panel, but if you explore the Timeline Control folder, you’ll see a range of available actions that don’t appear in the Behaviors panel. For example, you can add an action that progresses the animation forward or backward frame by frame (nextFrame and prevFrame) or scene by scene (nextScene or prevScene).