Did CS3 completely change the way of doing things?

[GraphicArtist88]

Hello,
I have not used Flash since the version before Studio 8.

The old way I would create a buttom to jump to a new scene or frame would be by using the following:

on(press){
gotoAndPlay("Products", 1);
}

Now, I can not seem to do that... any objects I create... I get a message saying the object can not have actions applied to it.

Am i missing something? Is there a setting I need to configure? I am not a programmer or actionscript guy... I am a simple user who wants to do simple things... and ive gotten frustrated with CS3.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[malihk]

Yup. It did. Everything is classed based now, and a lot more powerful (albeit with a sharper learning curve)

check this out
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=698429

You might just want to stick with AS2 (so you can still use CS3) for now

[Sid1120]

Unsure as to how FlashCS3 works,

but in Flex, you can apply button status to anything by doing so:

(wtv you want).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, functionName);

then, have a function with the same name as you gave above:

private function functionName(event:MouseEvent):void {

trace("The thing has been pressed");

}

It's cool as it's rather easy and can work on anything. Once you get the hang of it, you will come to adore Events in AS3

[malihk]

It's cool as it's rather easy and can work on anything. Once you get the hang of it, you will come to adore Events in AS3

agreed. I LOVE that eventDispatcher is integrated in AS3... I hate scope issues, they are so bothersome.

[GraphicArtist88]

cool thanks for the help.

I kept getting the error because it looks like now when you select actions you have to select the object from the left hand side.

If i recall correctly.. the old way had actions associated directly to the object.

this is gonna take a long time to learn. LOL

[GraphicArtist88]

Yup. It did. Everything is classed based now, and a lot more powerful (albeit with a sharper learning curve)

check this out
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=698429

You might just want to stick with AS2 (so you can still use CS3) for now

I tried to use Actionscripting 2 to just make a simple On Press GotoFrame.

and now i get errors...

I literally copied it from a old FLA file...

Does this method no longer working?

[cancerinform]

You don't need to use classes. Create a Movieclip or button, export for actionscript and a class will automatically be created. Then place an instance on stage, give it a name (myBut) and write this script in a new frame on the main timeline:

var myBut:MovieClip;
myBut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent)
{
gotoAndStop("scene2frame1");
}

You should always give a unique framename and not any scene/framenumbers. You cannot use any object associated scripts any more (fortunately). That was always a pretty bad habbit.

If you don't want to use AS3 you can switch to publish settings to AS2 and do your former way.