Changing alpha with push of a button

[titanick]

here's a story of a movie with a button that when pushed, it needs to get another button to change its alpha to zero. i.e. when a button is pushed, it makes other buttons phase out. any idea how? tried using instances by changing the buttons to movies, but it seems like there would be an easier way.
HELP!!!

thanks in advance for the replies!

- nick

[Sualdam]

The movie way is a good one - you can change alpha on movies and keep functionality inside them.

Another way is to create a square (turn it into a clip) with the same colour as the back ground, place it over the button(s) (use a separate layer above the button layer), and set the alpha of that (use tweening) so that the buttons show through to varying degrees. You could combine this with a mask if you need to.

[SubKloda]

Hi There,
add this to the MC you want to fade (eg. bob)..

onClipEvent(load){
doFade = false;
_alpha = 100;
fadeRate = 5;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (doFade){
_alpha-=fadeRate;
if (_alpha<0){
_alpha = 0;
doFade = false;
}
}
}

then to make the MC fade all you have to do is:

//remember to target the MC bob properly
on(release){
bob.doFade=true;
}

hope this helps,
Andy