Mouse events

[FrankieJohnnie]

My Flash 5 is refusing to recognize buttons as buttons, therefore will not allow me to code any mouse events. I am perplexed and have spent an eternity trying to figure out why. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[nicho_pro189]

ello!

[Onondaska]

provide a little more detail to what exactly your flash is doing when you publish it to swf. i am unclear as to why flash won't recognize a button if you created a button right off with hit state and all that good stuff. but, like i said, just give us example of what you are doing and the end result when you publish, i am sure we have some smart actionscripters that can help you out easy.

[STALKERT]

Maybe you're buttons are movieclips. You're not able to add some mouse events to a MovieClip.

So the symbol has to be of type and behaviour 'button'.

otherwise.. be more specific

[FrankieJohnnie]

Onondaska and Stalkert,

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer.

Here is an example of what happens: If I open the Library and bring an instance of a button into the movie, the Instance Panel will indeed say that it is a "button" and has the "Track as button" selected. Yet, when I open the Action panel and attempt to add an action, the "On Mouse Event" is dimmed, not allowing me to select it. If I go to "expert mode" and manually type an action in, when testing the movie, I get the following error message: "Mouse events are permitted only for button instances". For some strange reason, it is not recognizing it as a button. I am really stumped!!! If you can help further, I will be very grateful.

Thanks!

[tattoo cowboy]

why don't you post the .fla and i'll have a look see.

[FrankieJohnnie]

Thank you all, for your time and effort. I figure out what I was doing wrong. I didn't realize there were "frame actions" and "object actions"!!! I am hitting my head against the wall now!! Thanks again.