Best app for this project?

[Samione]

For the presentation of my coursework at college i've decided I want to present it digitally. I want to create a sort of digital log book of what i've done - with a main menu, buttons that link to certain parts of the project etc. An example of the main page is below;

The four buttons are each chunk of the project, which when clicked on would lead to a new sub menu with each indivual relative part.
I'll be designing it in photoshop first- it's the buttons and stuff linking the pages together etc that I need the app for. I want loads of flexibility with layout, and overall an app that's easy to use. Got any suggestions on what I can use to achieve this?

 

[Samione]

Flash? Nice and easy to learn the basics, plus animations for transitions etc

Will I be able to import my .jpeg layouts and work with them easily in it? I probably won't have any fancy rollovers or rollout menus, just page navigation mainly.

 

[Samione]

Considering it looks prime for Flash, I would totally go with some nice animations. It'd look sharp.

Hah, i'm a total flash noob, how quickly can I pick this stuff up? Also, will there be much actionscripting involved?

 

[Samione]

how are you going to be presenting this - web or cd?

It's gotta be handed in with my coursework, so CD.

 

[Samione]

Cheers, is the tutorial in version 7?

 

[Samione]

Is it the quick tour or flash lesson in the opening screen?

 

[Samione]

Ait cheers for the info- quick Q, if I wanted to create it a regular flash document, each page would effectively be a seperate key frame correct?

 

[Samione]

It seems to only want to play out as a movie :/, how do I make it, so that it stays on that frame i.e page, and doesn't change until I tell it to go to another frame or whatever.

 

[Samione]

should work fine..

i think

Err i'm talking about the first front page of the entire thing- like when you open the file this things comes up and it just loops between the two frames(pages) that I have created. Also- I have no idea where to put that text

Edit- sorted it, cheers guys

 

[Samione]

Ok, so i've made my button, except now when I attach the command gotoframe(2) or nextframe(2) , it produces an error when I test the scene! Anyone know what's going on?

Heres the error

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=button, frame=1:Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; nextFrame requires exactly 0.
nextFrame(2);

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

 

[Samione]

it should be

gotoAndStop(2);

Still not working -
Code:

on (press)
gotoAndStop(2);

Error:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=button, frame=1:Line 2: '{' expected
gotoAndStop(2);

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=button, frame=1:Line 10: Syntax error.

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2

 

[Samione]

it should read

on(press){
gotoAndStop(2);
}

that should work for you

Aha! Yes mate it works perfectly thanks!