Layer start point

[jfl]

Layer start point? What is it? It's a little box that appears in a text box and turns into the endpoint of a line segment attached to the box if it's moved. If the box is then moved the line segment moves with it.

I'm trying to create dialog boxes on top of a picture. How can I do that?
I want to view the resultant .swf is in a browser. So I guess I'll have to make screenshots, and then edit the window out of them and save them with the same name if all I want is the picture in the browser window to begin with?

It's finally dawned on me that this is not a general purpose tool for creating .swf's, but tool for illustrating programs running in windows.

Do you think I can make it suit my purposes... making slides of people having conversations with the dialogs represented by text boxes (balloons would be nice)?

Or should I look for a more general tool?

Thanks for all your help.

[JustinClift]

Hi Jfl,

Have been thinking about the type of animation you're mentioning.

It sounds like comic book animation?  (i.e. picture background, then timed dialog boxes appearing)

While you can probably use Salasaga for it, I'm thinking that it might still be a bit too rough around the edges.

Have you looked at Wink?

  http://debugmode.com/wink/

It's not open source, but it's free and has both Linux and Windows versions.  People also say good things about it too.

(I have no first hand experience with it, so can't really compare directly)