Button

[tjudoka]

I WANT TO LINK THE BUTTON TO A PICTURE OR A SYMBOL IN THE THE MOVIE

[falshdancer]

Be more specific.

[uhmazuhn_aashun]

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You are very straightforward

HaHaHa

Ok, time for me to be straightforward

1. Make button
2. Select button
3. Go to actions panel for button
4. Put this script into button actions:


on (release){
"targetpath to your symbol"."what you wanna do"
}

explaination: targetpath is your way of telling the computer where your symbol is. (it must have an instance name though)

a simple targetpath would be "this.symbol.symbol2"

that means that the button would target the symbol 1(only buttons or movie clips) and inside of symbol one it would target symbol 2

the "what you wanna do" part is telling the symbol what to do

for example: gotoAndPlay(2);

if you put the targetpath and what you wanna do together you get a piece of code that makes a selected piece of your flash movie or game do what you want it to do.

Im not sure what you want to do... "LINK THE BUTTON TO A PICTURE OR A SYMBOL IN THE THE MOVIE"

if you want the button to make a picture appear and dissapear just make a movieclip with 3 frames. Give it the instance name "pictureFrame". on the first of the frames in it put the code

stop()

on the second frame, create a keyframe with no code in it and put the picture in it

on the third create another keyframe with the picture still in it and put the code in the frame

gotoAndStop(1)

after that go back to the main stage and create a button

on that button, go to the actions panel and put the code

on (release){
this.pictureFrame.nextFrame()
}



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