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Animated Button
Good morning to All of us...

I need some help with animated buttons. Here is the thing
The button has a background and the letters. What I would like to do is when the HIT occours I want the background to slide out and I want the letters to transform.
Want to make them smaller.

Anyone knows how to add a clip to the HIT state???
I've tried it but I know I messed it up because its all over the place

Tutorial links are welcomed too.

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Question reguarding animation and button states.

I've made a button that has animation in both it's "over" and "down" states. However, I have some problems with them. 1. For the "over" state, I have an image turn upside down but it continuously turns over while the mouse is over it. I only want it to turn over one time for the duration the mouse is over it. Also, if I remove the mouse from the button it just abruptly stops rotating upside down and returns to it's "up" state. I would like for when the mouse exits the button for it to gracefully begin to turn back upside right.
So, to the point, how do I force it to only rotate one time each time the mouse is over the button, and how can I make it so I can have the image reverse it's motion on the mouse out?

--Chris

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I've created a movie clip to go inside my button, (on "down") but I can't get the entire movie to continue playing, because once you release the button, the movie stops playing, rather than continuing. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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I need to make a button that has a mc in the roll over state. Then when the mouse leaves the roll over area the mc continues to play for the rest of the time.

Does this make sence?

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I have a mc that I want to insert into the over state of my button, when I drag the mc out onto the board, I get the cannot place a symbol inside of itself error message. I have an enter button, that when you rollover will rotate. That is all that I am trying to do. Thanks

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hi,
I want to play a animation when the button is pressed. this animations leads on to the link of the button.I dragged the animation movie clip in the 'hit" frame of my button, but when i press the button, it only shows like 1 frame of the movie and it keeeps looping that 1 frame. I even tried this code in the button; on (release) {gotoandPlay("movie");}
BTW:"movie" is the 1st frame of my animation.
assistance needed.thanks

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I designed an animated button that expands an image on the over state using an animated movie clip and shrinks it on the up state with another movie clip, when the button first loads you see the image shrink and then it performs as i intended.
what i wanted was the button to be there, when the mouse is over it the image expands and when the mouse is off it then shrinks back, is there an easier way to achieve this with actionscrips instead of the rookie way that i went about it???

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hey,
here's the problem, seems pretty simple, but i just cant seem to figure it out.
i have a button(the button is a face). i want that face to start talking after its clicked on(released), as of now i can only have it do the talking when the mouse is over it, or i can have it so it talks while the mouse is held down. but it stops when the mouse is released.
plus, i'm working within a quiz, so its stopped on one frame.
any ideas for this?
appreciate any help offered.
thanks.

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i figured out how to add a movieclip to each frame, but i still have a problem. when i create a movie clip in "over" after the animation has played, it goes back to frame 1. even if i put an actio stop in the last frame... how do i make it stay on the last frame?

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I have a button which is motion tweened in a movie clip which was fine until I put the over state on it which just changed the colour now when the button is in the tween stage it flashes between all the states of the button. How do I stop it from flashing I only want it to flash on the over state which is the only one that is different.

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I've got a problem while making an animated button. I've never done it before so that's probably the problem but ok.
I created a movie clip and put it on the Over frame. Now the clip doesn't play when I hover over the button and I can't figure out what I've missed.

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Hello I need help with animating a button
how do i ad an animation to a button when the curser goes over the button i want to ad a fade in and out animation.
i created a movie within the button but that does not work. help what am i doing wrong.

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Hello I need help with animating a button
how do i ad an animation to a button when the curser goes over the button i want to ad a fade in and out animation.
i created a movie within the button but that does not work. help what am i doing wrong.

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I was wondering if someone would know about this problem im having ( a brain fart really).
Anyway i made a few buttons with a movie clip function so there was animation when rolled over and rolled off. But when pressed i want to script the viewer to go to a specific place in the main timeline not within the button movieclip. If you understand what im saying, please i would appreciate your help tremendously. This has puzzled me for about a year now. yes a year.
should i use a placeholder_ script? does that matter if so i never used one before. aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhh! im frustrated
please help
thank you again
Anthony

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Please could someone explain how to create these buttons?

http://www.truthtv.org (Let first page load)

u see the when u rollover the buttons it displays an arrow allowing to to scroll upwards and downwards? How is this done?

Any ideas?

Heres what I got so far:

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Hi all

I'm trying to create this buttons that are animated but I want a specific beheaviour

I want the button to play an animation when the mouse is over it and when the button is clicked I want another animation to play. However when I release the mouse button and the mouse is still over the button I made, I don't want the last animation to be deactivated and the mouse-over animation to play again. I just want the animation that plays when I click on the button to finish playing even after I release the mouse button and the cursor is still on the flash button and everything to stop afterwards.

So the last thing the user sees after clicking the button is the result of the whole two animations combined together before the next page of the website loads

Does it make sense? I don't know if it's possible but I hope there's a way to do it

Thanks!

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When you make an animated button that is basicly a square with some writing on how can I control the hit state on rollover I cannot stop the text from getting in the way.

You have to carefully guide the mouse around the outside of the square to trigger the rollover.

Thanks for any help

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Hello folks,

I received help a while back on a problem with having an animated button where the hit box grew with the animation and then shrunk on rollout. That was very very helpful and I have used that many times now. I have come across a situation where I can't figure out a way to use it because of the invisible button element.

I am attaching the file, but what I have here is this:

I have a main nav button, inside that button on a seperate layer I have an animated submenu that comes out from under it's mask during the overstate of the main nav button. I can't figure out a way to make the sub nav stay out when I roll down over it without putting the invisible button (used in the animated button before). The problem is when I use the invisible button it has to be the top layer and therefore will not allow me to have multiple buttons underneath it that point to different places. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Hey y'all. I can make an animated button fine - well, thought I could, but I've been having trouble with the "hit" function.

The Up, Over and Down work perfectly, but for some reason the 'Hit' just doesn't do anything.

I've done a movie clip on it, and then a shape tween inside that, and that shape tween simply isn't happening when I click it.

My file is too big to put up; however, I was wondering whether I could send it to anyone and they could help me out?

Any help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,

Tommeh.

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Hi,

I'm sure this is very simple but it has me stumped.

Basically I have an animated button made of text

on the up state it is 100%, on the over state i have a little animation which transforms it from 100%-150% and rotates it.

I want it to stay at that size for the down state so i have a graphic of the text at that size in the down state.

However, when i test it, it runs the animation when the mouse is over as it should do but it also runs it when it is clicked on (which i don't wan't it do to)

Attached is the fla and any help is most appreciated.

Thanks.

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I have recently have had the time to contine learning Flash MX 2004 and my question is this. I have tried to create animated buttons using movie clips for the over, up, down and so on using stop commands; basically everthing is done according to numerous tutorials and I have even downloaded buttons that work. The problem is the do not work when I open or create them the are no transitions no animation when I go to test the button. Is there something else I need to turn on; do I need to set some preference. I am frustrated by the fact I have followed so many tutorials exactly only to still have the buttons not work. I am currently working in version 7.0. If anyone could explain the resolve to this problem I would be most greatful.

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hey guys,

new to the game and trying to make animated buttons. well i sort of successfully created them but there is a problem. when you roll over a button it shows a small sample of a piece of work. and when you roll out, you guessed it, it goes away. but the problem is that they "stick" once in a while and one won't go away. or it may not even show. it's totally random too. i don't know what i have going on that would cause these hang-ups.

sample of the script:

on (rollOver) {
with (this.btn01) {
gotoAndPlay("01 in");
}
}
on (rollOut) {
with (this.btn01) {
gotoAndPlay("01 out");
}
}

"01 in" and "01 out" are the frame labels in the movie clip for the fade in and fade out of the animation. at the end of "01 out" it returns to frame 1 and stops (waiting for another rollover). i have checked to make sure that i have no conflicting instances and all that. it works, it's just not flawless.

what's going on here? i have attached a sample. go from button to button and you will eventually see.

thanks
kurt

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I'm trying to make a button that when you roll over it it plays an animation inside of it. I put a script on it that tells it to do that, but it only goes to the frame and stops.

ie. gotoAndPlay("button", 2) and it does what i would expect gotoandstop to do.

animations are in button MCs, which are in the Menu MC.

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Hello. I am using animated buttons on a site but want more control over how they remain selected.

They work fine but when I navigate away from a frame, using a button that is not in the button menu, I want the main button to become deselected. Any help would be much appreciated. This is the code that Im using:

flashmo_button._visible = false;
var button_label:Array = new Array("Home", "Destinations", "Activities", "Programmes", "Search", "Travel Info", "About Us", "Contact Us");
var total_page:Number = button_label.length;

for( i = 0; i < total_page; i++ )
{
flashmo_button.duplicateMovieClip("flashmo_button" + i, i);
this["flashmo_button" + i]._x = flashmo_button._x + (flashmo_button._width+1) * i;
this["flashmo_button" + i]._y = flashmo_button._y;
this["flashmo_button" + i].label_txt = button_label[i];
this["flashmo_button" + i].no = i;
}
function change_page(no)
{
for( i = 0; i < total_page; i++ )
{
this["flashmo_button" + i].button_mc._visible = true;
this["flashmo_button" + i].graphic_bg1._visible = true;
this["flashmo_button" + i].graphic_bg2._visible = false;
}
this["flashmo_button" + no].button_mc._visible = false;
this["flashmo_button" + no].graphic_bg1._visible = false;
this["flashmo_button" + no].graphic_bg2._visible = true;
_root.page = no + 1;
_root.play();
}
change_page(0);

Cheers

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I am trying to make buttons/menu with a small animation on mouse over and reversed on mouse out. I kind of got it with telltarget and gotoandplay commands, but that is not perfect, because if I move the cursor quickly over the button, it will jump to the mouseout animation before it has finished the mousover animation.

This was kind of hard to explain, but here is an example on a similar effect.
www.bleed.no (the black bars being filled on mouseover)

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I have a series of animated buttons. When a rollOver occurs a simple animation plays then stops in the middle and on rollOut the animation finishes. The problem I'm having is when the buttons are clicked. When a button is clicked the animation stops in the middle, it should do this to tell what page you're on, but if you roll over another button they don't work. If anyone wants to take a look, I'm including the .fla. Thanks.

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I created a Send button for this form and used the following script to animate it:

send_mc.onMouseDown = function() {
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}

send_mc.onMouseUp = function() {
send_mc.gotoAndStop("normal");
}

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I'm wondering how to do the button that I saw in this new movie flash web called "The Day After Tomorrow".

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Hi there, Im just starting out, and Im wondering how to animate a button. Like, on rollover i want a certain animation to happen. I tried

Code:
on(RollOver) {
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}
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I am relatively new to FLash CS3 and AS3. I followed the Tutorial to create animated Buttons. Perhaps someone can help me to get things work. How can I control the text in the .as File. The Text should be dynamic and get its values from an xml File.
I want to create a dropdown Menu like the one on the following page:
http://www.newmedia.ie/flash/
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what am I doing wrong?? I thought (this) targets the movie clip launching the event?

Code:

myBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mOver);
myBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mOut);
myBtn.buttonMode = true;

function mOver(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("over");
this.gotoAndPlay(2); // myBtn.gotoAndPlay(2); works??

}

function mOut(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("Out");
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http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mojito/yesmate.html

At the moment my elements are as such:
(1) MC "sliding thumbnail" has a graphic symbol (slides.jpg) and stop's in frames 7 and 14.
(2) An overall button "test" has a background graphic on Layer 1 - Layer 2 being the button states. The MC "sliding thumbnail" is placed in the Over state.
(3) There no other scripts except the stops.

I have successfully activated a the Movie Clip "sliding thumbnail" inside a button "test", by placing it in the Over state. So when the movie loads, my clip plays as the mouse is over the butto and my thumbnail image slides in from the right, and stops in the middle of my button, as instructed in frame 7.

What i would like to do, is On Rollout (& Release), Tell Target to GoTo frame 8, and play the remainder of my clip - whereby my thumbnail image will slide to the left and disappear. On Release, to go to URL.

HOW is this possible. I'm a little unsure how to acheive this effect.

Should the actionscript go......
(a) in the "test" button instance..? (rollout seems to present a problem if placed here ...) >>OR<<
(b) in the thumbnail image(slides.jpg)-as-button -inside-the-"test"button-instance? >>OR<<
(b) in the button background image-as-button -inside-the-"test"button-instance? >>OR<<
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2. Create my button, add my keyframes to each state of the button.
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