Button inside a mc

hi

i bet there is a very simple solution to my problem, but i just can't figure it out:

i want to do the following:

i want to have a mc on my timeline. when you move the mouse over it, it goes to the second frame and shows a field with some text, which it contains. when you move the mouse out of this new field, it goes back to frame one, being the small button again.

that of course is no problem.

but: i want to have a link inside the text of frame 2. so if you go over the mc this new field appears where you should be able to click on the link and get to a website.
i tried it in many different ways, but none of it would even allow me to perform any action on that link. i tried it with a button and a mc inside the mc but the button wouldn't even show it's over and push state.

i'm desperate. please help me or give me a hint.

thank you
Robert

I think you probably have a path issue....try to trace your buttons using trace(this);
also an example of a path from the main timeline to a button within an mc would be like this ..._root.mymc.my_btn.Onpress...........from the mc to the main time line would be _root.my_btn.onPress and within the mc would be this.my_btn.onPress.

hi

i don't think so. i attached i file in which i tried to test all kind of settings. maybe you can have a look at it?

thanks in advance
Robert

I'm at work right now so I can't look at the .fla but I will be happy to help when i get home tonight.

I'll be happy, too..

:)

i don't want to be im patient but i really need to do this stuff and i can't figure it out.

please help me.

your in luck ...........I'm home from work and just downloaded the .fla
get back to you soon.

you should probably repost this I can't make it work the way you want..whats wrong with making the blue symbol a button then on over the green circle appears then onPress an action takes place?......that way is no problem.

thanks. i'll try right now and terll you if it worked.

thx

doesn't solve my problem (i think).

i want only the grenn part to be the trigger art, but the over-state should be stay activated till the cursor leaves the whole button (including the red outer circle)

why or how should i repost it?

thx

hmmmm lemme try again .........I'll get back to you later tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

got it !

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Originally Posted by calmchess

got it !

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will you.... hmmm...... share it :grouphug:

pleaaaase :hubba:

rob

here you go I think the trace says test now though just change it to whatever you want.

sorry I was a little bit too excited and forgot to attach it the first time

i'm sorry, but this is not what i intended. i had it that way already somewhen, but now it doesn't matter wether you click on the inner or the outer circle. it will always say test. but it's only supposed to say test, when you click the inner circle.

sorry if that wasn't clar, but i thought it was.

maybe someone, or you calmchess, can have another look

thanks anyway

I don't know how to make it work another way although I would like to know the answer I'm really sorry that I couldn't help.

don't know why, but your talking about "doing it another way" has made me think about loading a new mc when the button is over the link and it shouldn't be a problem to have a link in there.
will let you know if it worked

problem is you can't say:
someButton.onRelease... if someButton is not present.
Your button being on the second frame of that movie makes it "not present"

Solution:
Have that button on frame 1 also and have it invisible with:
someButton._visible = false;

or have that someButton.onRelease function in the same frame that the button sits.

gparis

once again thankyou gparis

flash can be a real pain in the ass.

i tried i as described but the same problem occured.
but i finally found a way. it's incredebly confusing but it somehow works.

when the mouse hovers over the 1st button it loads a new swf, which is the field, that is supposed to pop up. in that is the button and a button which is very slim and surrounds the field. when you click on the button it opens the link and if you you move your mouse out of the field and therefore out of the framing button it unlaods itself.

wow... thats some ****. but when i didn't have the framing button it would either not unload itsef or the button wouldn'T trigger

i have to use it now the way it is, because i'm running out of time and it's 4:05 a.m. here already.

but maybe someone has a better solution for upcomming generations...

cu

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maybe someone has a better solution

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think i just posted it..

gparis

sorry. you must have written it while i was trying and typing along.

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Originally Posted by gparis

problem is you can't say:
someButton.onRelease... if someButton is not present.
Your button being on the second frame of that movie makes it "not present"

Solution:
Have that button on frame 1 also and have it invisible with:
someButton._visible = false;

or have that someButton.onRelease function in the same frame that the button sits.

gparis

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i tried the second solution (had treid it before, btw) but no result. am i stupid?

the first solution won't work because i the actual file the uppopping field will be much bigger then the one from the first frame. at least i don't see how it could work without already triggering when the cursor gets over the big invisible field.

..also do not use button actions on a MC (onRollOver...) it will have button behavior and buttons inside buttons..... don't work.

*edit: as i don't know if you're familiar with movieclip handlers i made it on you fla. see attached.

gparis

finally the thing i looked for.

i am not familiar with the handlers. but i think its time now to become.

thank you very much. (even though i have to reprogramm it again now, but it will work better then)

you're welcome. Maybe you've heard it is best practice to put your code on frame1 on the main timeline. It's true in the sense that readability, clarity etc.. are better. But, in my opinion, not ALL code always needs to be on frame1, not in ALL cases.
For any other application, there may be impossibilities (like in your case: button only on frame2 of a nested clip) and there is no way writing an extra 5 lines of code (sometimes involving the use of cpu intensive loops) just to make it work, is worth it.
just my opinion.

gparis

sure why not

everything works pefectly now.

thanks again

going to bed now ( 6:14 a.m. :yikes:... other people get up now)

well
good night