Are you getting Flash 8, Flash MX 2004, Flash MX, or Flash 5. I've got Flash MX (Flash 6) and Flash Professional 8 (Flash 8 duhh).
Flash 8 can do cool effects that MX can't I think. They're both good. V-Cam (virtual camera) is good to get:
http://www.oreillyne..e=2&x-maxdepth=0
download the file and copy the virtual camera in the waterfall02 frame 50... not the beginning coz the screen will be black if you do and paste it in your animations and resize it to a good size so it's not stretched out. You'll get the hang of it.
A bit of AS for buttons:
Pause would be:
on(release)
{
_root.stop();
}
Play:
on(release)
{
_root.play();
}
Goto frame
on(release)
{
_root.gotoAndPlay(framenum);
}
on(press){
_root.stop();
}
For play:
on(press){
_root.play();
}
For going to a certain frame number
on(press){
_root.gotoAndStop(##);
}