[F8] In over my head, but probably simple...

[thespis]

Okay, so I have a movie clip that has the following action:

onClipEvent (load) {
txt = 1;
}


INSIDE the movie clip, is a movie clip with this action:

on (rollOver) {
if (_root.link<>txt) {
gotoAndPlay("s1");
}
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
if (_root.link<>txt) {
gotoAndPlay("s2");
}
}
on (release) {
if (_root.link<>txt) {
_parent["item"+_root.link].gotoAndPlay("s4");
_root.link = txt;
_root.play();
gotoAndPlay("s3");
_root.gl = 1;
_root.scroller.scroller.gotoAndStop(3);
}
}


I want to create a button ON TOP of the original movie clip, but I don't want it to mess up the mouseover commands in the movie clip below. Is there a way to actionscript the same rollover commands for the movie clip two levels below into the button two levels above?!

Too complicated for me and in need of help,
Thespis

[mneil]

Completely confused as to what you want. You can't control a clip underneath a clip without bringing it to the front somehow. Via swapDepths or getNextHighestDepth(), or however. What is the overall effect you're going for. Maybe there is an entirely different way to achieve it?

[jAQUAN]

And I thought I was the only flasher from vegas.

Technically and logically, you can only rollover one thing at a time. Any button overlapping another is going to cancel out the lower one.

There is a work around using a Mouse listener and hitTest to dynamically set the enabled property of the big button but its kinda complicated.

For now you can probably just edit the hitArea frame of the big button so that is has hole knocked out where the smaller buttons are sitting.

[thespis]

Okay, so taking advice from mneil, perhaps there is another way to make this work -- so let me step back, show you what I've created and then ask advice!

Attached is the FLA of a menu bar, 4 buttons, each one has a nice rollover effect and another effect when the corresponding page is active (text glow). I've decided that I want the third button to behave the same, but instead of activating the animation that corresponds, I want to send the user to an external site. Problem is, I made the menu using multiple instances of the same (as you'll see).

Is there a simpler way to do this? I tried putting a transparent button to intercept, but then I lost the rollover actions, etc.

Run the movie first to see what I'm talking about!

Thanks,
Terrence in Las Vegas

PS: I'm glad to see there are other Flashers here besides me, cause there sure aren't many!

[thespis]

Attachment is here:

[jAQUAN]

I'm sorry I don't have time to dig through the file.
Looks like you are going to have to duplicate the symbol named ABOUT in your library.
Modify the release code on the duplicate. Instead of the line that tells the timeline to play, just use:
getURL("http://www.mywebsite.com", "_blank"); //"_blank" forces a new browser window. use "_self" for the same window

[mneil]

So if I understand right, you just want to leave the fla and goto another browser window when you click on button 3? Then just do what jAQUAN suggested and use the getUrl on release to open a new page, you'll probably want to disassociate that button with any movie action too so you don't see the fla starting to move and then get redirected. It might confuse people into thinking something wrong happened or a pop-up came. Unless of course you want that.