:disgust; I am learning Flash to simulate an interactive television screen.
I've looked at a number of tutorials to create buttons or a disappearing menu
on the screen as if the TV viewer is choosing to have the menu appear (much
like the "info" button on your remote).

The ploblem is I will be following a tutorial that then out of thin air says
"now copy this Action Script for the symbol." Yeah, and do what with it? VERY
frustrating.

So, what am I missing. I get the code view on Dreamweaver, but on Flash 8?

Thanks for any help.

jimmy.smith@gmail.com

Actionscript can be placed either ON a button or IN a frame of the timeline. To
make a button do something, you first need to make it a "Symbol." For instance,
draw a circle onstage, select it, and then go up to "Modify" on the top of your
screen and to the submenu "Convert to Symbol." Now your button will have a blue
rectangular or square border around it. This indicates that the cicle is now a
symbol. Select the button by clicking on it once, then go to your actionscript
panel. If it's not visible, just go up to "Windows" at top of screen and to the
submenu "Actions." Once the actionscript panel is open AND your button is still
selected, place any code you want INTO the actionscript panel.

That's it. Hope this helps.

BTW, as a handy shortcut the F9 button takes you to the actionscript panel
good luck, we all started like you :-)

Actions panel