Struggles with Flash

On Wednesday I gave Flash a try in order to create a diagram into which students could drag and drop items to demonstrate how Boolean operators work. Since I didn't have any previous experience with Flash, this was somewhat challenging. I was using Adobe Flash Professional, which has a largely graphic interface. Various instructions I found through software help sites involved entering some simple code, but I had a hard time figuring out where I could enter such code (as it turned out, this involved editing "actions" associated with a movie clip or button). Once I got that figured out, I kept creating files where you could move the whole graphic around, but not specific elements (the samples I found converted graphics to movie clips and then created a button within each movie clip - but I couldn't figure out to make a button within a movie clip). Basically, I struggled for a long time with understanding how to use the software and looking through help manuals, but eventually I got it to work!