Flash and I have a bit of a chequered history. Being of the ‘Authorware’ school of programming I have always struggled to translate my thoughts to the timeline based architecture of Flash where the item I’m looking for could be buried 6 layers deep inside a whole string of movie clips. Sure there are probably techniques to search for it, but in Authorware it would be just there in front of me, but I digress…
My previous forays into Flash have been pretty much as a ‘Pretty Picture’ tool. Simple animations, and software simulations involving making the cursor move across the screen and showing different screens. However, I had to use it properly, in Anger on one of my recent projects.