Flash :: Adding SFX To Adv Buttons

Adding SFX To Adv Buttons
Hey guys,

Ive been making some advanced buttons with some trendy transitions using Lostinbeta's onEnterFrame/ hitTest method below:

ActionScript Code:
//this script is on my mc (which is the button)onClipEvent(enterFrame){ if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){ transition_mc.nextFrame(); } else { transition_mc.prevFrame(); }}

Can anyone tell me how to load an mp3 for the buttons sound effect?

This is what I have been doing (below), but it simply just doesn't work. The sound keeps on being played repeatedly whilst the mouse is over the button. I knew this would be the case but I just cant think of any other solutions..

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){ if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){ buttonSfx.start(0,0); this.nextFrame(); } else { this.prevFrame(); }}buttonSfx = new Sound(this);buttonSfx.loadSound("SFX/click.mp3");

Thanks in advance!

Adding Buttons
i have a set of single buttons that i made. i want to put them all in one set of buttons(one flash movie). whenever i put one button on its fine but when i copy and paste the next one on it says that one or more items already exist on the document. how can i put them all together? thanks

Adding Buttons With As3
hello i got a slideshow that gets its data from XML and it now works with no errors. Also if you click anywhere on the body it will also link to a page designated in the xml.

I would like to add buttons to the file. I was hoping to add them dynamically based on the number of nodes in the xml file. I got a variable that gets the number of nodes already.

How would i go about doing this? Array that spins out the buttons? i was thinking that would work but i have no idea how to bring them to the stage. The buttons would allow selection of the slide node.

I have saw a slideshow with thumbnails and assumed the same logic should work to put them together but i dont have code for it.

Here is the code i got for the slideshow:

PHP Code:

import fl.transitions.Tween;import fl.transitions.easing.*;var xmlloader:URLLoader;var xmlpath = "bar.xml";var myXML:XML;var picIndex = 0;var slideTimer:Timer = new Timer(4000);var slideTimer1:Timer = new Timer(1000);var slideTimer2:Timer = new Timer(0100,1);var intSlideCount:int; function xmlLoaded():void { xmlloader = new URLLoader(); xmlloader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,xmlloadcomplete); xmlloader.load(new URLRequest(xmlpath));} function xmlloadcomplete(e:Event):void { myXML = new XML(e.target.data); //imageSource.source = "photos/"+myXML.bar[0].photo;//loads 1st image //remove if i can get slideshow to start with image trace(myXML);//shows in my out put that im getting the xml data //remove when working or comment out intSlideCount = myXML..bar.length(); trace(intSlideCount);} function fadein(event:TimerEvent) { slideTimer.start(); slideTimer1.stop(); imageSource.source = "photos/"+myXML.bar[picIndex].photo; var textFade = new Tween(imageSource,"alpha",None.easeNone,.5,1,1,true);//fade in picIndex ++; //set it to zero when it reaches your maximum index which currently is 3 if (picIndex == intSlideCount) { picIndex =0; } slideTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fadeout);} function fadeout(event:TimerEvent):void { var textFade1 = new Tween(imageSource, "alpha",None.easeNone,1,.5,1,true);//fades out slideTimer1.start(); slideTimer1.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fadein);} function loadurl(event:MouseEvent):void { trace(myXML.bar[picIndex].link); var urlchange:URLRequest = new URLRequest(myXML.bar[picIndex].link);// navigateToURL(urlchange);} xmlLoaded();slideTimer2.start();slideTimer2.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fadein);imageSource.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadurl);

Adding Action To Buttons?
Ok, I found a cool tutorial on adding actions to buttons but its for Flash 4, and Im using flsh 5 so its confusing. I just want that when you mouse over the button, a little box or something goes around it, and then when you click on it, it takes you to the url. Can someone please explain to me in really easy terms for a very new newbie how to do this? Thanks.

Adding Sounds To Buttons
Hi, I've just added a sound to some buttons which plays on rollover okay - the only thing is that the sound usually plays twice - only if I roll over from bottom to top does it just play once as it should be. Anyone an expert on adding sound to buttons? I'm using Flash 4.
Thanks.

Adding Actions To Buttons?
Hi again

Ok I got the buttons working all fine.
But now I want to add AS to them. Im using Flash Mx, and I blame the new interface for most of my problems LOL!

Ok heres the script im using.

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on (rollOver) {
gotoAndStop(85);
}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndStop(65);
}
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Now that works all fine and what not. Problem Starts when I goto the next button add the same AS but i change the
85 to 86.
for some reason I am unaware of it changes the first buttons AS to that of the second buttons AS.

I hope that is easy enough to understand.
I need each button to gotoand stop at a different frame and its not working right

Thanks in advance

Adding Actions To Buttons. How?
Hi
How do I add actions to buttons?
WHen I edit a button theres 4 frames:
Up Down Over Hit
But when I want to added an action to hit It would say current selection cannot have actions applied to it.Any ideas?
Thanks
Metal Fusion

How Do I Keep Adding The Value By Cliking On The Buttons?
Hi...Have a problem here again..

I have a button..How do i keep adding the value by clicking on the buttons.

For example:

I have a time counter, When the cursor points to the "+" button and when I click on it, it will add by one increments. Or when I points the "-" button it will decreases by one value.

Another example:

At first the time is shown like that 00:00:00
And after I click on the button '+' it will show 01:00:00
and after I click again on '+' it will show 02:00:00 and if were to enter the minutes I have to clik another button,Lets name it Enter.

It must clik 'enter' button again in order to enter the seconds portion..

Can anyone pls tell how to do from scratch???
I am really a novice who took up flash Becoz my sch projects requires me to do so..

Thanks for enlightling me.

Adding Actions To Buttons
I have 5 buttons with the action script

on (press, release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene3", 1);
}

the problem is that each of these buttons should go to a seperate movie in a seperate scene. This does not happen. When I test movie the intro and main menu appear, roll overs work, but nothing will happen when I click on a button. Is there something I am leaving out?

Adding Hyperlink To Buttons?
I purchased a template from TemplateMonster.com. My issue is that I cannot find how to add/modify hyperlinks to the buttons.

The source file is available here: http://www.rdi1.com/sidemenu.fla

I read through the manual about using actionscript, but that is way over my head at this point in my flash-learning.

Please advise,
Thanks,
Matt

Adding Links To Buttons
ok i created a button but now i cant figure out how to "link" it.

if you need my .fla file, please PM with an email address so i can send it.

Adding Hyperlink To Buttons?
I purchased a Flash template, and am having some issues modifying the hyperlinks.

Forgive me for not knowing the correct terminology, but I'm kind a Flash newbie. When I change the hyperlink of one button, it changes the hyperlink of every button. I need to know how to either make different instances of the buttons, or "insert your suggestion here".

Here is the movie as it stands: http://www.rdi1.com/_intropage/with_...in_edit05.html
If you click the "More" buttons, they all go to the same page (thinix.com).

Here is my Flash project file (MX 2004)
http://www.rdi1.com/_intropage/with_...ain_edit08.fla

Thanks much in advance for the help,
Matt

Adding A Downstate To Buttons
i have simple buttons on mywebsite that our animated to move on rollovers and rollouts. what its the comand to make them have a downstate when the user clicks to go into thier section
onPress?

Adding Sound To MC Buttons
Hello.I always(almost always) use movie clips instead of buttons because of their flexibility...but i dont know how to add sound to them, so can someone please explain?Thanks.

Adding Paypal 'buy Now' Buttons
well i have some items i need to sell on my site can anyone let me know how i set up the link so that when the 'buy now' button is clicked it goes to the paypal page with the specific item description and price...
any help
thanks alot!

[F8] Help Adding Actuin To Buttons
Hi, I just upgraded from flash mx to flash 8 and cant get buttons to work
no matter how much help or tutorials I read
I see its not as simple as MX...The actions are more complicated in F8
Here is what I need to do:
I just want to add simple actions to buttons, same scene,
a. go to and stop
b. go to and play
thanks gene

Adding Actions To Buttons
okay -- i know this is a newbie question.....

but when using actionscript3 (which i need for a flv palyer) i cannot add actions directly to the buttons.

can someone point me in the right direction of how to get actions on my buttons

i have 6 videos that i need to play and when i go to add actions it says"Current selection cannot have actions applied to it"

i an new to AS3 so any help would be great

thanks

cheers

Adding Text To Buttons
Hi All,
Good afternoon. I've got a question which I hope will be easy to answer for you good people. I've created a button which zooms in using motion tween and I want to add text to the last instance in the tween (when the button stops moving). The problem is when I add the text to the last instance, it's now in the button throught the whole tween. How can I edit the final instance only? If I convert it to another symbol (button), it looses the tween. What am I doing wrong and how would I achieve the result that I want. Thank you so much to whom ever replies.

Adding A Sound To Buttons?
I am trying to add a sound to buttons in a menu. I have the audio file in the library, but do not know how to apply the sound to the button in AS3

The audio is like a simple blip noise that I want to play one time when the button is in the, "Over" state.

Any help would be great.

Adding Action To Buttons
can someone help me i keep getting

1120: Access of undefined property aboutus. aboutus.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);

can someone please help me

Adding Actions To Buttons...
I created a slide show in flash (I'm very new to Flash). The slideshow
works great so far. I recently added some buttons to the slideshow (each in
their own respective layers) and the buttons are Prev, Play, Stop, Next. I
want to add actions to each of those buttons with the action script. I want
the Stop button to simply stop the movie whenever you press the button, the
play button I want to simply play the slideshow if one has pressed the stop
button (by default my slideshow starts when it loads). The next and play
buttons are obvious what they will do. I'm wondering how I go about adding
these actions to each button. I know how to add them to the buttons but I
just don't know the proper Action Script code. Can anyone help me out with
this. Can't seem to find a good tutorial on it!

--
Best Regards,

Chris Jumonville
iMedia Web Design
503.277.3553

Adding Actions To My Buttons
hi flash ppl!
why am i getting a "current selection cannot have actions applied to it" msg in the actionscript window(f9), when i try to add an action to my button to point to a section of my text? pls pls help.

Frustrated newbie

Adding Some Action To The Buttons
Hi!

i got a video online with a preloader. It's made simply and looks like that:

loader.autoLoad = false;
loader.contentPath = "videoname.swf";
pBar.source = loader;
loader.load();

pBar.complete = function() {
this._visible = false;
};

now i want to add some buttons to "jump" to specific frames. I add some buttons and add actionscript like that:

on (click) {

this._parent.gotoAndPlay("250");

}

hmmm, but it doesn't work. how can i specify the name of the video? i think that the problem is, he doesn't know this._parent

Somebody an idea?

Thx,
Dorian

Adding Icons 2 Buttons
Hello,

I am going over the optional buttons in AS3, and I have found the SimpleButton (flash.display.SimpleButton) and Button (fl.controls.Buttons).

I can not see a property that presents an icon of type PNG or ICO or even Bitmap.... Maybe I missed something.

How do you add an icon to a button? Or should I just place a MovieClip with a click event listener?

Thanks,
OML

Adding Sound To Buttons?
When I add sounds to buttons, when you press it, it won't play the sound. does anyone know why?

Adding Actions To Buttons
Hi there,

I have a button which I want to attach a goto action to it.

I know I can make a invisible button but if I put the inv button in front of the button, the button wont change color when you mouseover it.

Any help

Thanks

Adding Buttons Dynamically, Is It Possible?
Hi all,

Does anybody know how to add buttons dynamically in a flash movie? What I want to do is to create a menu dynamically depending on the parameters the movie receives.

As additional information, each of the options in the menu calls a VB form.

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

God Bless.

Adding Flash Buttons To Dreamweaver?
Does anyone know where I can find some info on how to add Flash buttons in to Dreamweaver? I cant seem to get it to work. Any info will be a great help. Thanks

Creating And Adding Movieclips To Buttons
Anyone out there willing to help a confused newbie?

I have created a button and turned it into synbol with an Up, Over and down state of simple colour changes. What I want to do now is change it but I don't know how.

I want to create a movie clip of a pulsating colour change and substitute or add that to the Over state for my button.

How do I create a movie clip to do this? Do I need to create the MC in a seperate movie and cut and paste? Do I edit the button symbol or the instances?

Also can the MC be any length or is it like buttons with 4 frames.

Hope someone can throw me a lifeline...

Adding On(press) To Buttons In FlashMX2004Pro
I havent got a clue how to do this, Ive tried adding an action while in edit button and ive tried to add it while in the timeline, all I want it to do is open a website when the button is pressed, can anyone help?

cheers je-roo

Problem Adding Links To Buttons...
Hello, I am trying to add some links to my flash page and I am having problems. I have several rollover buttons that I want to redirect users to a different part of my page or to a different website.

I think I have it close because when I run the movie and click on the buttons I get an error message and then a blank Internet Explorer page. The error message says...

Cannot find
'file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Terry/My%Documents/Backup/%20of%20Web%20Template/2081/with%5FFL/html/www.google.com' Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

What I did was click on the button, then in the area below I entered this code...
on (release){getURL("www.google.com","_self")}

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated; I think I am really close to getting this going.

Adding Links To Buttons In This Interface
Someone sent me this neat .fla that has a nice menu setup.
Problem is, I'm not certain how to make each page a clickable link since they are repeated movieclips.

Is it possible to add links to the page icons?
Flash file attached

Thanks!!!

Question About Adding Actions To Buttons
ok, so i've been messing around with flash for a few months, nothing real big, mainly messing with fbf, then i started to work on my movie. and i wanted to know, how do i add actions to buttons o.O i make a button and i go in and make all the images, but then i cant figure out where to add the action.

if someone could help me on this i'd appreciate it. and if you need me to be more specific just say so.

Adding Movie Clips To Buttons
how do i turn the over, or down form of a button into a movie clip? do i create the hit form, turn it into a movie clip symbol, then double click and do whatever animation within that movie clip?

Help Adding Buttons To ALSO Scroll My MC (currently Uses Drag-bar)
Hi,
I created a scrollable mc that moves when the user drags a bar. Because I had the help of a tutrial to create this, I dont understand it 100%. What I need to do is add buttons that the user could press instead of the drag bar if they choose, to scroll the mc instead, but for the drag-bar to be affected when the buttons are pressed also).
To see the exact example of my movieclip, and to download the fla, please visit this page:

http://www.lucid-life.com/scroll-mc.html

I would really appreciate some help with this...
Thanks in advance
Francesca

Dynamically Adding URLs To Buttons
I have an XML file that has a large group of buttons. (ex below)
code: <unitedstates>
<state name="WA">
<enabled>1</enabled>
<bordercolor>3F3F3F</bordercolor>
<color>336699</color>
<url>http://www.hotmail.com</url>
</state>
<state name="OR">
<enabled>1</enabled>
<bordercolor>3F3F3F</bordercolor>
<color>336699</color>
<url>http://www.gmail.com</url>
</state>
</unitedstates>
I want to be able to dynamically have each of those buttons go to the URL I specified in the <url></url> tag.

This is the code that I am trying to do as I loop through the XML file, but it's assigning it onrelease. I want to assign it at the beginning.

code:
for(var i = 0; i < xmlDoc_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++){
var strURL = xmlDoc_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
eval(stateName).onRelease = function(){
trace(strURL);
getURL(strURL, "_self");
}
}

the problem with this is that it assigns the last URL in the XML file to the every button I click on. So in this instance, the WA button AND the OR button will both go to gmail.com because that's the last one it was assigned to.

How do I add the right URL to the right button in that loop and have it stick?

Thanks.

[F8] Adding Flash Buttons To HTML
Hi,

I'm having trouble gettin my flash menu working in IE.

Any help truly appriecated,

I have created a flash menu,

then added links to the action script of the buttons and tested it in flash 8(works fine),

then i saved it as a movie file and added it to a page (HTML 1.0) in dreamweaver.

When i test the page in IE my problem starts , when i move over the links the mouse changes from a cursor to a pointing hand (showing a link there) fine..., but when i click the button nothing happens. The menu looks fine and everything works apart from the links, however they do work if i load and test the movie file by itself.

Any suggestions to where im going wrong will be truly appericated, and im glad to give more info if required.

Kind Regards

Lee

[MX04] Adding Text To Buttons
Hi All,
Good afternoon. I've got a question which I hope will be easy to answer for you good people. I've created a button which zooms in using motion tween and I want to add text to the last instance in the tween (when the button stops moving). The problem is when I add the text to the last instance, it's now in the button throught the whole tween. How can I edit the final instance only? If I convert it to another symbol (button), it looses the tween. What am I doing wrong and how would I achieve the result that I want. Thank you so much to whom ever replies.

Varl
MX 2004

my work so far... www.grooveinc.us

Adding Action To Buttons On Navigation Bar
I have a flash template, the fla and the swf. I want to edit the buttons to point to the correct pages. I have cllicked on the buttons and did an edit, then in the action pointed the the index.html made it the _parent, locked the button. My problem is it is not going to the index page.

Is there something else I need to do? I am using Flash 8 and when I check the properties for the action script if is 1.0. When I change it to 2.0 I get the following error:

encountered
getURL(/:url6);

Total ActionScript Errors: 6 Reported Errors: 6

Please help.

Thank you
Dee

(newbie Help) Adding Url Link To Buttons
ok so i'm making a flash page and i started to make buttons then realized i didnt know how to link the buttons.
so i looked up some tutorials, but they didnt help at all
i figured you had to use the get url action script but when i type the url in the space you are suposed to, then test it.
it always shows me an error message. **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=bg, frame=1:Line 1: ')' or ',' expected
getURL(http://www.yahoo.com);

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

i have tryed it so many times but i am sure i am doing something very stupid wrong.
please help haha
thanks, dan

Adding Pause And Play Buttons
Hi,

I am doing a flash presentation

i want to add 2 buttons, Pause and Play
when clicks Pause button, the presentation stops and presentation continue when play button cliks.

So, how will be the action scripts ? please help

'running behind ACS'

Adding Actions To Buttons - Pissing Me Off
Hello, I just got mx 2004
I am trying to add an action to a button!

I clicked on the button and open the "Actions" panel.

This is the action script I am using...

on (release) {
getURL("index.php");
}

I cannot get it to work.
Any tips at all?

Thank you thank you
kj

Help Adding A Volume Control To Buttons
I've been looking around and searching to see how I can add a volume slider that controls the sound of the buttons on my site. They only make noise when you roll over them or click on them and I want the user to have to choice to turn off the sound or turn down the sound if they want to. I followed the "Creating a Volume Control Slider" tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/volume_slider.htm and I can't get it to coorespond with the sounds of my buttons. Is this even possible? I'm pretty new to flash so any help I can get would be great!

Adding Sounds To Buttons In Flash
Help please. I followed the tutorial on the site and using the included image file, it worked beautifully (didn't think it was that simple) but when I try using the pre existing buttons that I created for my website I am trying to build, the mouse over function does not work, no sound, furthermore, my image is a little bit chopped. Its a gif image that I obviously did not create within flash, but shouldn't you be able to import an image and add mouse over sounds easy?

Thanks.

Adding Buttons For Each Picture In SlideShow
I have this SlideShow-Script from somewhere here.
I would like to add buttons for each picture, I mean btn1 for loading picture1, btn2 for picture2 and so on.
I tried in different ways, the most logical to me seemed to be:

PHP Code:

btn1.onRelease = function() { preloadPic(1) this.desc_txt.text = description[p]; picture_num();};

but nothing works.

Thats the SlideShowScript:

PHP Code:

function loadXML(loaded) { if (loaded) { xmlNode = this.firstChild; image = []; description = []; total = xmlNode.childNodes.length; for (i=0; i<total; i++) { image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; } id = setInterval(preloadPic, 100); } else { content = "file not loaded!"; }}xmlData = new XML();xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;xmlData.load("images1.xml");var p = 0;var current;var k = 0; // height and width of the square box holding the imagesvar imgBoxWidth = 600;var imgBoxHeight = 600;function preloadPic() { clearInterval(id); var con = picture.duplicateMovieClip("con"+k, 9984+k); con.loadMovie(image[p]); preloader._visible = 1; preloader.swapDepths(con.getDepth()+3); con._alpha = 0; var temp = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("temp"+k, 99+k); k++; temp.onEnterFrame = function() { var total = con.getBytesTotal(); var loaded = con.getBytesLoaded(); percent = Math.round(loaded/total*100); preloader.preload_bar._xscale = percent; if (con._width) { con._x += (imgBoxWidth - con._width) / 2 con._y += (imgBoxHeight - con._height) / 2 preloader._visible = 0; con.onEnterFrame = fadeIn; delete this.onEnterFrame; } };}MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = function() { if (this._alpha<100) { current._alpha -= 10; this._alpha += 10; } else { current._visible = 0; current = this; delete this.onEnterFrame; }};function nextImage() { p<total-1 ? (p++, preloadPic()) : null; this.desc_txt.text = description[p]; picture_num();}function prevImage() { p>0 ? (p--, preloadPic()) : null; this.desc_txt.text = description[p]; picture_num();}function picture_num() { current_pos = p+1; this.pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total;}previous_btn.onRelease = function() { prevImage();};next_btn.onRelease = function() { nextImage();};

So how should I formulate the onRelease function?
Thanks for helping!

Adding Radio Buttons In Flash And Having Php Use Them..?
hey guys.. i got my php script and form fields working good, but now i cant figure out how to get radio buttons information to display once the php send to the email... it leaves it blank... can anyone point me in the right direction on how to add radio buttons in flash that will display the correct information in the email

example

name: test
phone: test
would you like this:
fax: 777-7777

it leaves the would you like this blank even if you clicked on the radio button. can anyone help out and provide the right direction or the code in php to insert radio buttons correctly... thanks!