Making Buttons... Switching Images

[abumslife]

i was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make these tabs into buttons so that they come forward when clicked... here is the image i'm working on to give you some idea what i'm talking about

[Dead Rabbit]

Placing the tabs into a sprite will make it possible. I've attached an example. In this movie, I added the tops of the tabs as shapes (reshaped rectangles) and used the Transform action to color the long part of the tab, which is a seperate shape.

In scene 1, I assigned a mouse event (On Press) to each tab to move the playhead in the sprite. In scene 2, I used (On RollOver) to do the same thing.

Hope this helps!

[abumslife]

i wish it helped too... i appreciate you taking the time but i was lost after opening up the file


i did the images in photoshop and imported them... every color has it's own layer and are one peice... can't i set the top tabs as buttons and have the layers move forward when clicked

sorry... i have some idea but i'm really new to this

[Vincent26381]

I believe the first scene of what Dead Rabbit made fits your problem perfectly. Just right-click on scene 2 and delete it. When a tab is clciked it comes to the front.

[Dead Rabbit]

The first thing is to understand what the sprite is and what it does, then build upon it as necessary. Read the SWiSH Help file on sprites for a primer.

Although the drawing is a little crude, I modified the .swi to give the appearance of moving the entire folder forward. This requires copying the tabs, then cutting off the tab portion of the copy. The cut-off tab tops stay visible, and the entire tab, a second object, is placed on top using a Place effect within the sprite.

The mouse events are attached to the cut-off tabs only. Take a look at the sprite, how the labels and Stop actions are placed, then look at the Actions Panel for RedTab, BlueTab and PurplTab objects to see how it all works.

[abumslife]

ok... i'll start dissecting your file and read the help files... again... thanks... but one question... my tabs are over laping... the way you have it set up... this will still work for me right?

so the tabs come forward and don't look like they are behind the other tabs

[Dead Rabbit]

On the second .swi, yes - that's the way it will look. You'll either have to cut off the tabs to use as buttons or create some invisible buttons over the tabs to control the sprite.