Changing Button Actions With ActionScript

[Trix RT]

How do I go about doing this?
see I'm doing a thing where a movieclip is duplicated, renamed and then placed under another 1... insid eteh movieclip is a button , so I need to give this button actions...

I think I could do this by giving the original button the actions and defining the field with expressions like:

onrealease{
gotoandplay (framevar + 1)

(Ya I know it's wrong it's just an example)

that's not the actions I want but the real ones are kinda complex and I don't realy want to do it that way so I'm not gonna figure out the exact actions.

please help =)

[Anol]

Try this
Name the instance of the button ( suppose "btn" )
Then in the frame action :
btn.onPress = function() {
gotoandplay (framevar + 1);
}
U will be able to manipulate the action

[Trix RT]

It works for buttons in the main timeline but I don't know how to make it work for button inside movie clips. I tried

_root.movieclip.btn.onPress = function() {
gotoandplay (framevar + 1);
}

didn't work. so how do I specify where the button is?

[Anol]

I think there is something wrong with your gotoAndPlay(); command.
'cause this is working :
_root.testmov.btn.onPress = function() {
trace("Done");
}

I believe you want to manipulate the timeline inside the movie clip, right? in that case try:
_root.movieclip.btn.onPress = function() {
_root.testmov.gotoAndPlay(framevar + 1);

}

Take care where the variable(framevar)located also.

Hope it works :-)

[Trix RT]

Actualy the gotoandplay (framevar + 1) is just an example, it's not what I realy want the button to do.

Hmmmm I realy need help on this so I'll explain what's going on in teh movie:

In the 1st frame there's the #include "artists.txt"
which duplicates a movieclip, renames changes the text inside it then changes it's position. Then it does the same thing w/ a dif name and text and sets it's x and y coordinates so that it is right under the 1st one... this is what's in "Artists.txt" so far:

list = 1;


duplicateMovieClip("lcd line", "Bad Religion", 0);
set("_root.bad religion.text", "Bad Religion");
list = list+1;
setProperty("bad religion", _x, "302");
setProperty("bad religion", _y, 35);

duplicateMovieClip("lcd line", "Pennywise", 1);
set("_root.pennywise.text", "Pennywise");
list = list+1;
setProperty("pennywise", _x, "302");
setProperty("pennywise", _y, 15*list+5);

duplicateMovieClip("lcd line", "Rage Against The Machine", 2);
set("_root.Rage Against The Machine.text", "Rage Against The Machine");
list = list+1;
setProperty("Rage Against The Machine", _x, "302");
setProperty("Rage Against The Machine", _y, 15*list+5);

duplicateMovieClip("lcd line", "The Offspring", 3);
set("_root.The Offspring.text", "The Offspring");
list = list+1;
setProperty("The Offspring", _x, "302");
setProperty("The Offspring", _y, 15*list+5);

Now I need to change the actions of the buttons inside each one.

When I try

_root.bad religion.button.onPress = function() {

}

It doesn't work, there's something wrong with the "_root.bad religion.button" part.

If you can help me out I'd realy realy apreciate it...

[stevebju]

i've had similar problems in the past where the script looks correct, but the only thing wrong was that I had spaces in some names of the path.

My two cents:
Instead of:
_root.bad religion.button.onPress = function()

Try renaming it, so that there are no spaces. Sometimes it's funny like that:
_root.badReligion.button.onPress = function()

good luck...

[Trix RT]

This is wierd, it works fine if I use

_root.testmov.btn.onPress = function() {
trace("Done");
}

On a button inside a movieclip that's in the movie already. But it doesn't work on the duplicated movieclips... any advice?

[zikzorgan]

Try and set the event functions straight after the clip is duplicated... like this

// duplicate clip
duplicateMovieClip("lcd line", "pennywise", 1);
set("_root.pennywise.text", "pennywise");
list = list+1;
setProperty("pennywise", _x, "302");
setProperty("pennywise", _y, 15*list+5);

// set event handler
pennywise.button.onPress = function() {
gotoandplay (framevar + 1);
}

..... etc...etc....

I haven't yet tried this but it should work...

also note: spaces in clip names will not work !

hope this helps you

[Trix RT]

Thanx 4 all the help guys... it turns out the prob had nothing to do with the actionscript, it was a problem with flash, everytime I named the button it would name it back to nothing so I reinstalled and it's working fine... thanx again.