If you are starting your own Flash ecard service, there are a few things that you will need besides a copy of Adobe Flash. Besides creating the Flash animation for a Flash ecard, you will need a program that will run your ecard service. You have several choices for your ecard server software.

With the newest release of Adobe Flash and AIR, we now have a much easier way to build desktop applications. This book by Marco Casorio is a good way to learn the basics of working with Flash CS4, ActionScript 3 and AIR together.

What's new in the Captivate 4 upgrade.

Adobe eLearning Suite has built-in features for communication and collaboration between team members and Standard-based publishing of courseware.

The new Adobe eLearning Suite software has all the tools you need for courseware authoring. Adobe has taken their turnkey simplicity to a new level with this suite.

Morris has done a great job keeping up with the new Flash features and choosing which of the new features and techniques will be most useful to his audience.

Now we will code our button. This code will tell Flash to listen for a mouse event, such as our button being clicked. Then we will write a function to tell Flash what to do when the button is clicked. Our function will tell Flash to go back to the first frame and play the animation again.

In this tutorial, we will create a button symbol from text. We will set the color of the text to a different color for each of the three rollover stages of our button.

I recommend a working knowledge of ActionScript 3 in order to get the most from this book which will demonstrate the most important tasks for creating an interactive widget in Flash CS4 and publishing that widget to Widgetbox.

We will continue to work on the eCard project in Flash CS4. We will use Script Assist to help us add the ActionScript stop code that will stop our animation after it plays through once.