Images and text on button rollovers

[Ronmc]

I've created a main menu with 9 button movie clips, all from the same library button. When the user rolls over the buttons on the left of the screen I would like a graphic and some text to appear on the right side of the screen.

Can I put the 9 different images links and text into an array and read it on the fly during the rollover? I'm looking at that but in the button editor I don't see how I can put a dynamic image and text on the screen.

Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

Thanks
RonM

[flosculus]

you need to do it in actionscript, heres how you can do it (based on your requirement description):

//for each button on the stage, give them a class name, eg: Button1

//give each button an instance name and place them in array
var buttons:Array - new Array(button1, button2, button3, etc);

//loops though the buttons giving eventlistener for function showItems and hideItems
foreach(var button in buttons) {
     button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, showItems);
     button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, hideItems);

}

//the easy way to display the items on the right is to make a movieclip
//for each item containing the image and text
//place each item movieclip on top of eachother where you want them to appear
//and set each of their alpha properties to 0
//dont forget to give them the relative instance names: item1, item2, item 3 etc

//for each button create a new property called targeter
//and attach the relative item to each one
button1.targeter = item1;
button2.targeter = item2;
button3.targeter = item3;
//etc for all 9

function showItems(e:MouseEvent):void {
     e.currentTarget.targeter.alpha = 1;
}

function hideItems(e:MouseEvent):void {
     e.currentTarget.targeter.alpha = 0;
}

that SHOULD do what you wanted to do, tell me if you have any trouble.

flos