1) Create interactive quiz scenes in Flash and add buttons to navigate between scenes for questions and correct/incorrect answers. 2) Name scenes meaningfully and add a stop() action to the last frame to prevent continuous playback. 3) Make buttons interactive by adding code that uses gotoAndPlay() to link buttons to scenes.

1. How To Make
Your Flash Quiz
Interactive
Adding Buttons
Next

2. Create Your Quiz
• Using all the tools that you have experimented with create
your quiz
o Use motion and shape tweens to make it appealing
o Make each question a new scene
o Create your “yeah” and “argh” scenes for right and wrong answers
• Once you have created all your scenes and you have all your
questions
o Name your scenes so they have meaning
o Create a button that your viewer can click to select the correct question
• You can create one button then drag new buttons from the library
• Now we need to stop your multimedia so we can read the
questions and give time to click the correct answer button
o Add a stop()
o Move your stop() to the end frame
• Now we need to click a button and it take you to the “yeah”
or “argh” scene
o Make your button interactive
• For problems see the troubleshooting section

3. Name Your Scene
Open the Scene
Panel
This panel opens. To rename
your scene double click the
current name

4. Creating Your Buttons
Make your
button(s) using
a shape
Create a layer
for your button.
Right click your shape and
choose Convert to Symbol.
Then name your symbol and
select a Button behaviourNext

5. Another Method For Buttons
• To create an interactive button with different states
1) Select New
Symbol… from
the Insert menu
2) Give your
Button a Name
3) Draw your
button. You should
use different layers
for text and shapes
4) Add Keyframes for each
state, changing the colour
for your shape and/or your
text, for each state
Next

6. Using Your Button
• The button
you have
just made
will now be
in the library
• You just
need to
drag the
button onto
your stage
to use.
• Don't forget
a new layer
first!

7. Add A Stop()
• You now need to add some
code in ActionScript to stop
your scene playing over and
over, or even moving onto
the next scene.
1) Add a new layer
and call it Stop
2) Open your
Actions panel
3) Click the plus
icon and choose
stop
4) Or, choose Global Functions,
Timeline Control then click stop Next

8. Moving Your Stop()
• Your ActionScript will probably be at the start of your
scene, if it is, drag the icon to the last frame
o You don’t want your scene stopping before it starts!
Catch the
ActionScript icon
and drag to the last
frame

9. Making Your Button
Interactive
• Making your button
interactive is simple and
involves more
ActionScript
1) Select your button
2) Click the plus and
choose Global Functions,
Media Clip Control and
click on
Next

10. Making Your Button
Interactive
3) A drop-down choice will appear, choose release
4) Click between the curly
brackets
5) Click the plus sign again and
this time choose Global
Functions, Timeline Control,
gotoAndPlay
Next

11. Making Your Button
Interactive
• Now you need to type just a small bit of the code to
tell the button where it is to go and play…
6) Your code now looks
like this
7) Click between the
brackets and type…
“name of your scene”, 1
This is the name of your
scene in “”
This is the frame number you would like your
scene to start from

12. Troubleshooting
• You click the correct answer but it doesn’t go to the
correct scene.
o Have you written your scene name in “” e.g. gotoAndPlay(“question1”,1)?
o Try renaming your scene to lowercase and no spaces
• Your scene won’t play
o Have you moved your stop () to the last frame?
• Flash won’t let you add your ActionScript, the code
is disabled
o Have you converted your image/text to a button?