[F8] Movie Clip

[wolffangs]

For some reason when I put animations in a movie clip I can get them to play. For Example I have a calender and when you roll over an event a box pops up to describe what the event is about. Then when you rollout it goes away. I cant even get it to acknowledge it is a button.

I even download an animation that someone else did of a character talking and that didnt even work.

Am I doing something wrong.

[levidavies]

to be honest I do not understand the question sorry

[wolffangs]

When you make a movie clip symbol then place animation or action inside that symbol (like making and flash movie) it will not work.

[levidavies]

sorry, in the above you mentioned

"when I put animations in a movie clip I can get them to play"

I thought you might of meant cannot get, but thought I better ask first.

could you post code or the fla in MX04 version will be happy to have a look

[walsher]

Ya, if you could post your fla file, it'll give us a better understanding of your problem.

[wolffangs]

sure here you go look at febuary 1st for what I am talking about.

[levidavies]

on the feb 1st when you roll over the small little dot in the corner the large pop out appears is this wat you after but instead of the dot you want it to happen when rollOvering the text yes?

[wolffangs]

exactly. When you roll over the text the text should change color as well as the box show up. Also when you click on it it goes to another page or when you roll over into the box you can click on other things in there as well.

[levidavies]

if so you need to create the Text as an MC not a button then asign it an instance name, then on say the main time line place similar code to this for EG

the text is in a MC called 5? so give it aninstance name say "five", then with in this mc(five) your MC of the text assigned an instance of say "buttonOne"

the button on the main time line should

five.buttonOne.OnPress - function(){
buttonOne.gotoAndStop("label");
}

hope this helps a little

[wolffangs]

Let me say that better.

A. when you rollover text the text changes color.
B. when you rollover the text the box pops up.
C. when you click on the text you go to another page.
D when you rollover the text and the box opens you can move the mouse into the box and you can click on elements in there.

[wolffangs]

thanks

[levidavies]

so
1) When you RollOver the Text changes Colour and the Information Box pops up, then you can rollover the info with in the pop-up

2) When Pressed it goes to another page(frame) Say

Most of this should seem easy, the only problem will be when you roll out to go onto the pop out the whole thing will invoke the rollOut function thus close, there is a simple way to achieve this I beleive but short on time to work it all out at mo

:-)