Flash Button help

[southern gumbo]

I know how to make the 'on' part of the flash button. But when I let it off how do I make it so the button does something? I see people with buttons where they have an animation, but when you move your mouse off of it another animation plays. How is this done?

[sharma]

create a movie clip.. give it an instance name of "button1"

on the movieclips actions put

code:

---

on(rollover){

_root.button1.gotoAndPlay("onstate")

}

on(press){

_root.button1.gotoAndPlay("downstate")

}

on(rollOut){

_root.button1.gotoAndPlay("outstate")

}

---

within the button1 MC create the different states of the button and label the proper frames..

[southern gumbo]

Thanks, appreciate the help

[southern gumbo]

actually I am totally confused at the moment..

I have made the frames and labeled them accordingly with an animation in the onstate. However when I preview it, the animation plays automaticlaly without me even having to scroll over the image.

Could you make me up a sample fls please using the simplest example possible? I'd GREATLY appreciate that

[Cass101]

you will need to add a keyframe with stop(); in it where the last frame of each state is. so, for example, when it reaches the end of your downstate animation, it doesn't play through to your outstate animation.

hope this helps

[southern gumbo]

http://www.templatemonster.com/websi...ates/6773.html


see that menu? mind making a simple one in flash and send me the fls please!! i don't understand this at all. i understand the Button symbol, but it has no animation when you roll off, therefore leaving the button symbol useless

[Cass101]

ok, this is a very quickly made and basic example, but should give you an idea of what sharma was trying to say.

[southern gumbo]

wow, thanks a bunch!!! i have been tearing my hair out at this, thanks soooo much!!!


I've looked through the code, only part I do not understand is how you have defined such a big 'hit' area.

[Cass101]

the hit area doing it that way is just the size of the mc itself. it is the size of the white box with the black border in the example