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[Mugen]

1.) I cannot get a vertical gradient only a horizontal one...

2.) How do I set button actions in mx? I cant seem to find onmouseover etc in the actions menu.

3.) Im having problems loading external .swf files into my main movie. Could you please offer a tutorial or a link to walk me through this again... I think Im doing something wrong with my place holder.

[PCRIDE]

1.) I cannot get a vertical gradient only a horizontal one...

Answer: This is strange, I was tyaing that very same effect with the gradients, you have to rotate the gradient shape and scale it back to what the orig. shape was. But as soon as you try to edit the gradient it switches back to the oringanl shape and gradient.

2.) How do I set button actions in mx? I cant seem to find onmouseover etc in the actions menu.

Its right their in the first menu ON ) then it will give you options for onRelease, rollOver, etc

3.) Im having problems loading external .swf files into my main movie. Could you please offer a tutorial or a link to walk me through this again... I think Im doing something wrong with my place holder


this I don't know right off hand but you can find them very easy, try the MX help in flash!

Hope this helps
PCRIDE

[enpstudios]

Originally posted by Mugen
1.) I cannot get a vertical gradient only a horizontal one...

Fill your object with the linear gradient of your choice, then click the Fill Transform Tool. Then click twice on the filled area, the Fill Transform Tool should appear.

[Mugen]

Ah thanks, both answers worked great for the first two problems. Now if anyone could please help me with a load movie tutorial using a placeholder that would be wonderful. I have searched the archives and the only one that I can find uses a random multiple movie approach that I have tried to edit without much sucess. Thanks in advance.

[enpstudios]

Sorry didn't see that one:

loadMovie("http://www.yoursite.com/your.swf" , "_root.targetMC");

targetMC is the instance name of my holder movieclip

[Mugen]

Great I have that working, one more question though. I though that the loaded .swf was supposed to appear within the placeholder that was created. Ive checked the centering of my movies and everything appears to be centered but its appears down and to the right of the placeholder instance.

[enpstudios]

A loaded .swf aligns its top left corner to the center of the holder.

[Mugen]

Ahhh great that works perfectly, thanks so much!!