Flash :: Best Approach To Making Buttons

Making A Pendulm Sway Approach
Hey all

Here someone maybe shed some light on this problem.

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...nging+pendulum

The pendulum. Well i would like to add the pendulums origin to a moving movie clip so if you move the movie clip the pendulum swings. You know kind of releastic.

However i dont really know how i can approach this, is it really complicated?

thanks

Best Approach For Making A Flash Menu For A DVD
I'm making an interactive for a local band. I'd could use a little direction in terms of the best way to make a flash menu for a DVD that needs to be playable in a normal DVD player.

The disc will contain, audio files, video files and a pdf document.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Making MC Objects With Embedded Buttons Act As Buttons?
Hello everyone, thanks for reading my post.

I'm working on a map 'thumbnail' interface, with about two-dozen thumbnails that get larger (gotoandStop 5) on mouseover.

Now, this is the code I am currently using to achieve this effect:

Code:
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndStop(5);
_root.x += 2;
_root.VARIABLE_MC_NAME.swapDepths(_root.x);
}

on (rollOut) {
gotoAndStop(1);

}
Where should I put the onClick getUrl piece? And how?

I don't understand if it should be part of this function or have its own function.

Thanks for looking at this, all comments and answers appreciated.

-Tim

Making Buttons
I was having some troubles making buttons in MX. I went to the FK tutorials and followed the instructions for building buttons, but since i have the MX version there are slight diferences between the two.
I have no problem with (over, down, hit. ect) graphics for each part, but when i go to the movie section. Macromedia changed the layout. The tutorial in the flash MX didnt seem to be much help. Please help.

Making Big Buttons
I've created a sqaure with text in the middle...how do I make the whole square a big button....and when you roll or mouse over it the whole sqaure changes color.

Thanks for your time.

JT

Atlanta,GA

Making Buttons
Hi

Does anybody know how i can make one of those timelines for buttons. The one with the Hit, Over, ect. u know the kind ?

Any help would be much appreciated

Making Buttons
does anyone know how to make a navigation of button from a sorted array?

Making Buttons
hello, i was just wondering what you have to do to text to make it into a button...like with the options for (on, over, hit, etc) on the timeline when you double click it... this is confusing me...

thanks... chris

Making Buttons
Im very new to flash and I havent made any buttons before, but I'm trying to now. However, despite my best efforts and trawling through many tutorials, I can't assign actions to buttons very well.

All I want to do is create a simple button that will appear continuously until clicked, at which point it will transport the viewer to a seperate frame, which will itself appear continously until another button is clicked to go back to the original frame.

I've not explained this very well, but it would be like:

1st frame - Image with button on it
click the button - takes viewer to -
2nd frame - Different image and button
click the button - goes back to first frame

if that makes any sense at all..

all help is very much appreciated!
thanks

Making Buttons
I am new to flash so go easy... I have made a button with a funky design and would like to make it where, if you mouse over a color moved into the button from a given direcion and fills the button with that color. i know how to move color into the buttons area but it dosent fil into the button but yet make a big square (of the color i moved into it) where the button was. Well what i am asking is, how do you make color move into a object and just within the objects border? I hope i made yahll get me, im so lost.

Is Anyone Up For Making Buttons?
Hey, i apologise if this is in the wrong section but i saw no request section. Well what i'm looking for is some nice flash buttons that make a sound and also glow when you hover your mouse over them, i need 6 buttons

Home, Forum, Tutorials, Files, Links, The Team

Heres the link to my site so far and that shows what size the buttons need to be go Here . Prefrably black with a white swoosh sort of flash that goes over them when hoverd over. If anyone could do that i would be Very Very greatful, although i use flash i keep trying to follow the tutorial to make these buttons but can't get it right.

add me to msn > elliot_4eva@hotmail.com

cheers.

Making Buttons Appear
I have 5 buttons on a stage, each in different layers that i want to fade in to the scene. I have managed to create this effect by converting all buttons to movie clips, tweening them in using alpha and then in the last frame converting them to buttons. However this is takes a lot of time, especially when the number of buttons increases and was wondering if there was a quicker way to make them all fade in using just one tween.

There are images beneath the buttons so i can't just put a square of them and fade that out using a tween to reveal them. I have tried fading out a mask but this doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas?

Many thanks
John

[MX] Making Buttons Do What I Want Them To Do.
Ok, I am in the middle of laying out a website in Flash. I am learning as I go which makes little problems like these very frustrating. I have a myriad of questions but am only concentrating on this one at the moment-

My site will have only 4.5 sections not including the intro movie. HOME, ABOUT, PORTFOLIO, and CONTACT. The .5 is the confirmation page from the contact mailer. I have a button for 3 of those pages- ABOUT, PORTFOLIO and CONTACT. My header logo will be the button for HOME. My question is this... What exactly do I have to do to make these buttons control 3 different movies. Right now, I have just one animation done for the ABOUT page. Everything's fine, I am just confused how to transition to the next page for whatever button is pushed. I would like ABOUT page to fade out before the next page's animation begins. But I can't even get my buttons to goto and play a certain frame, let alone fitting in transitions.

I am really ignorant to the layout of my timeline. Like I said, right now, I have one page movie done and 3 buttons laid out. I can easily make the other page animations but I don't know how to fade out the current page into those.

Am I making sense?

Any help would be appreciated! If it helps, I can post screens of my Flash screen, or upload the swf/fla..

Making Buttons Know
I have a button that is actually a Movie Clip (so I can animate it). I want this button to play a sound. (But this isn't a sound question.)

If I have a list of 20 sounds, and 20 instances of this button mc, how can I make it know which sound is being called for?

If it were a normal button, each instance would have its own load- or attach-movie command. But since they're MC's, the invisible button hit is always the same.

Is there a way to make it look to the MC's instance name to get which sound to load?

Making Multiple Buttons?
I have a list of links, each one is to be a button. I was wondering how I could make this list so that I would not have to make 10,20 or so buttons, one for each link. I think this can be done with using smart clips, but I have not ever used them before and would need some help. If smart clips are the route you suggest could you direct me to a good tutorial?

Thanks for your help

Making Buttons With Arrays?
The code below is used in conjunction with a movie clip instance (spoke) that looks a little like a lollypop. When run it creates a spinning collection of these lollypops which looks like a cross between a molecular diagram and a ferris wheel.

My question is how can I make each of the lollypops (spokes) in the array act like a button, so that when I click say Spoke4 I can activate another movie clip associated with that Spoke.

onClipEvent (load) {
maxSpokes = 7;
turnspeed = 1;
spoke = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i<maxSpokes; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip (originalSpoke, "spoke"+i, i);
spoke[i] = eval("spoke"+i);
spoke[i]._rotation = (360/maxSpokes)*i;
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
for (var i = 0; i<maxSpokes; i++) {
spoke[i]._rotation = spoke[i]._rotation+turnspeed;
originalSpoke._visible = false;

}
}

I have been able to trace each arrays name when I mouseOver it's intance using hitTest, but I want to be able to do it when I click on the instance.

Buttons And Making Them Invisible
here's one that is stumping me right now... I have two buttons overlaying eachother. I only need one visible at a time, and would like to hide the other
i.e. Play/Stop button.

how can I hide one of the two buttons?

Thanks bros and bro-ettes

Making Movies Into Buttons
Gidday, I'm fairly new to Flash and am using V5.

I have a question avter viewing a site at http://www.prodrive.com(Please Look). This site basically starts in one huge flash movie filling the whole browser. When the movie is finished, The user is presented with 4 static buttons. When you mouse over one of these buttons, it zooms in, the others zoom out, and the selected button starts animating.

How is this done considering that when I select my movie in flash, the Mouse Event action is dulled out? It only seems to appear when the symbol is a Button. Does anyone know good tutorials or book titles that would cover this?

Cheers
Aarynz

These Buttons Are Making Me Thirsty
ok heres the problem. i cant get the buttons to function as they should and im work on a deadline thats coming up fast. ill attach the file so if anyone can help please do id greatly appricate it. its for an interactive CD not a website.

thanks for your help.
DeAllen

Making Over Buttons Stick?
Move your curser over the thumb and hold it there
how would i make that pop up stick there when i move the mouse away without having to click?

http://www.vsen.co.uk/filez/hand

ty

Making Buttons Work Help PLZ
Hey, i'm 14 years old and I am new to flash so don't yell at me for asking stupid stuff and I already know some of the stuff to make a flash movie but what I don't know is how to make a button actually work. I made a button in one of my flash movies and I converted it to a button. What I am stuck on is how to get from one part of my movie to another by clicking the button. I know how to set it by going to Actions and then goto and play and setting the frame number but I don't know how to make that frame after my whole movie is finished. In other words what I'm trying to say is this:
-I made a movie upto frame 210
- then I set the loop off over there so it doesn't repeat the movie after it finishes.
- now my button is on frame 210 and I would like it to go to a completely new frame after 210 just like any button on a flash site.
How do I do this? Can anyone please help me? I need this done soon for my video game clan website. THank you

Please Help With Making Buttons Work
Please can anyone help as I'm fast running out of ideas. I'm working on a really important site that is going live in a couple of days and I can't seem to get some buttons working.

Basically, I have some buttons in a Flash movie which is located in the Main Frame of a 2 frame site. The buttons have the following actionscript assigned to them (with the page name changing obviously):

on (release) {
getURL("aboutus.htm", "mainFrame");
}

The whole site works perfectly on my Apple Mac but when I test the buttons on the Flash part of the site on my PC Internet Explorer either sits there doing nothing or I get a 'Page not found' error! As most people who view this site will be using PCs I need it to work on one.

If you want to see what's happening go to www.testarea1.fernonline.net/srt

I have tested it on a friends PC and it does the same thing so it can't just be my computer. The only other thing I can think of is that as I'm testing the site I've put it in a folder, one down from the root directory rather than straight into the root directory as I normally would - could this cause a problem?

Making Buttons Appear/dissappear
Hi, I'm trying to make a portfolio app for my site, and I managed to make it connect to a database and retrieve and show all data. But I have a slight problem. I'd like to have "Next >>" and "<< Previous" buttons to appear and dissapear when needed.

Meaning, if I have 3 records, I'd like to have the "next" button appear for records 1 and 2, and the "previous" button, to appear in records 2 and 3. Am I making myself clear?

Right now I have this actionscript inside a "onclipevent" in a MC:

strTotalRecords = (String(TotalRecords)-1);

if (CurrentRecord == 0) {
setProperty("next", _visible, 1);
setProperty("prev", _visible, 0);
} else if (CurrentRecord == strTotalRecords) {
setProperty("next", _visible, 0);
setProperty("prev", _visible, 1);
} else {
setProperty("next", _visible, 1);
setProperty("prev", _visible, 1);
}

"TotalRecords" is the total I retrieve from database.

And in frame 1 in main timeline, I have an actionscript to hide both buttons from start.

The thing is that "totalrecords" starts counting from "1" and not from "0" like I have in "CurrentRecord", since this last one, I use it afterwards to call for the next record, so I can't touch it.

Anybody can point me to the right direction, please?

Thanks in advance

Adrian

Making Menu Buttons
I was looking at the menu template and I like it except for the actual buttons. How do you change the shape of the button?

Buttons Making MC's Move
Hi, i have a problem, i have tried to figure out for some time now. Well, it's like this. I made a button, marked "UP" and one caled "DOWN" and then a movie clip... When i click the "UP" button, i want my movie clip to move down, and when i click the "DOWN" button, i need it to move up. How do i do that? i have tried a lot of tutorials, and searched a lot, i'm still confused. could anyone sort out a little script for me? it should be easy, but i don't think it is, anyways :/

Thanks in advance,
Hexar

p.s. Yes i'm aware that it says "when i press UP it goes DOWN" and the other way around. That's cus that's the way i need it..

Making My Own Scroll Buttons.
I have looked everyware i can think and still can't find the anwr.

On my site (Unoriginal Design) i need to make my own scroll buttons for the text boxes. So how would i go about doing that?

::: Making Buttons Disappear :::
i'm trying to make a game in which buttons will disappear on release, as they run across the stage. i'm can't find any tutorials to explain the method that would give me this effect. if anyone can help or knows a way of making buttons disappear on release then reply.
cheers
cal

www.callumations.tk

www.animootions.tk

Making Advanced Buttons
Well, I have looked through many of the tutorials on this site, and haven't really found anything that focuses on the questions that I have. I read a couple tutorials on how to actually make the button, but all the ones that I have seen are explain this next part in flash 4.0 (I have 5.0) or assume I already know the following (my questions).

1. How do I properly embed a flash button into my .html page so that if I click on it, it leads to a different page on my site?

2. The better flash buttons have animations when you mouse over them, such as water flowing through a tube, I am wondering if anyone can explain this pretty in-depth for me... I know it has something to do with a small movie in the button, but don't know how to go about it.

3. If someone doesn't have the proper flash installed, is there something that will allow me to display an "html version" link in place of the flash navigation bar?

Thanks for any help.

Making Animation For Buttons
Well, I can make a button, I can put animation onto it, and I can place the button onan html page... BUT, I dont' know how to make any neat animation. I have adobe photoshop and image ready, and I think I should use those to do this, but have no idea what to do.

My goal - create a button that looks like a clear tube with blue substance in it. WHen mouseover occurs, the blue substance inside appears to start moving. That is my goal. Anyone able to get me started? thanks.

Making Buttons Blink
I was wondering how to make a button blink on the over part. Here is what I did, which failed.

1. Created a new symbol-button.
2. Created new symbol-movie clip.
a. The movie clip has 2 frames, 1st frame is the button in one color and the 2nd frame is the button in another color. I then added a goto and play action to make it go back to frame 1. That way it went to from frame 1 to 2 then repeated over and over.

3. Back to the button. On the over section, I added the movie clip. Then I tested the movie and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong and how can I make it work.

Making Buttons Stay On
In the attached flash file i've created three buttons from MC's. But I am having trouble making the on state stay on

Any suggestions?

thxs!

Making Flash Buttons
I have made buttons using Flash already, and partially understand how to use them to make interactions between frames and scenes. But, what I have not found out how to do yet is to just save a flash button and be able to use it in Dreamweaver. I noticed that you can insert flash buttons using dreamweaver, but they make you choose from pre-made styles.

How can I use my own flash buttons in an html document using dreamweaver? I have tried, but not been able to use the buttons to link to other pages in my site. Thanks for any help given, this has been a very helpful site.

Making Buttons Invisible
Hey,

Simple question. How do I make all future instances of a particular button invisible once the user has clicked it?

Thanks.

Map With Buttons (making Me Crazy)
Hello,

i've been messing about with senocular's map ( http://www.senocular.com/downloads/...at=2&kind=2 )

and have got quite far. but ive got a PROBLEM.

As you can see there are some place names that do not resize. I've also added some building markers to it. i wanted them to act as buttons which could load some information.

but if i put buttons on the layer they would scale with the map and would not be clickable, the roll-over effect did not even work.

I got one stage further by putting the button inside a movie cip of it own and them placing that on the map and that solved the problem of it scaling with the map.

but the buttins were still not interactive!
I'm guessing that maybe this has something to do with the code that lets you draw a box/area in the large map zoom into and maybe because flash it concentrating on that that?

the url for the origonal is at the top of this post and i have included an example of mine with a button.

If anyone can shed any light on way to solve this i'd be very very happy, and a lot less stressed.

cheers

Making Buttons Fade
i made this navagation bar for a project and i would like the buttons to fade to the colors that they have on mouse over and when pressed but im not sure how. could someone maybe post how or edit it for me, i would be quite thankful.

P.S.- can anybody tell me how to edit this code to open in the same page instead of a new window?

on(Release) {
getURL("http://www.google.com",_blank);
}

Help On Making Buttons Go Places
I'm very new to flash MX 2004 so i really do know almostnothing. I can get a scene to go somewhere but for a movie i'm working on i have a looped intro with a button that goes to the actaul movie. I just don't know the actionscript to make a button go to a part of a movie I know it's something to do with on release but can someone please post the script i'll need to write to make a button work?

Thanks

Making Buttons Inactive...
Hi,

Is there actionscript that can make a button inactive?

Thanks,
-Todd Lerner

http://www.toddlerneradvertising.com

Making Buttons Work.
Hi all.

I'm trying to get a button to open a single page in a window frame, while it stops a movie that runs on start up.

Please Help.

Making Numbers Into Buttons...
Hello,

How can I automatically display numbers (one after the other) from 1 to n, and make each number a button, so that if you click the button 1, it loads 1.swf, 2 will load 2.swf, and n would load n.swf

something like this...

Code:
for i=1 to n do
make i a button

on (release)
swfToload = i +".swf";

do....whatever.

Do I make sense...is this doable.

Thanks

Making Buttons Unclickable?
I have a button and script attached to it but once pressed I do not want the user to press it again; I need to make it unclickable. How would it be done?

Thanks.

Help Making Buttons Like The Dock In OSX
how do i make a button that will grow bigger when you roll over it
then when you roll off it animates back down...

kinda like the dock in Mac OSX

Making Buttons And Links.
I havent a clue how to make buttons or make links to outside websites, can i have some help?

Help With Making Buttons Work
Hello,
I'm finishing a site for a oil company and I am dumb founded on why these buttons aren't working from scene to scene below is a link to the .fla if someone could help me out. Thanks a million,
Garrett

.fla on yousendit's server

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...EB1EE9715684D5

Help With Making Buttons Work
Hello,
I'm finishing a site for a oil company and I am dumb founded on why these buttons aren't working from scene to scene below is a link to the .fla if someone could help me out. Thanks a million,
Garrett

.fla on yousendit's server Actionscript 2.o

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.p...6EB1EE9715684D5

Making Buttons Invisible
Hey, guys! I'm trying to load external gallery swf file into presentation. It goes perfect but when I wanna go back to the first slide the buttons don't disappear!!!!Only buttons! Everything else does. This part of actionscript goes as follows:
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function(ok) {
newBut = _root.attachMovie('numTemplate', 'num'+i, i);
newBut._y = sliderHolder_mc._y+sliderHolder_mc._height+5;
newBut._x = (i*newBut._width)+sliderHolder_mc._x;
newBut.myNum = i;
newBut.num_txt.text = i+1;
newBut.onRelease = function() {
targX = 0-(this.myNum*274);
};
myXML.load('new.xml');
This's just a part of the whole actionscript.

Could anyone, PLEASE, help me!! What is the script for making buttons disappear when going to the next slide!!!!
HElp!!!

[F8] Making Buttons Dissapear
I wanna make a skills list for a turn based rpg and I kinda want skills only to appear when you have learned them. I have no clue how to do it so can anyone help me please? I might have an idea but it would take forever its to make a variable for every skill and set it to false then when the character learns it set it to true. Then when you battle and click the skill button it would have to run a very long code to check what skill variables are true and then bring you to the right frame. It's just that it would take forever to make every combination of skills on a frame . Can anyone tell me how to do this please (like make one frame with the skills apearing and disapearing if you learned them or not) thanks for reading .

[CS3] Help Making (PNG) Images Into Buttons.
Hi all, I am very new to using flash and I'd like to use some icons (PNG) I have to insert into my flash in the form of buttons.

Could anyone point me in the direction of an understandable tutorial or perhaps give me some help?

I've imported the graphic and then converted into a button, I have then assigned the over/hit etc properties and then i go to add the actual actionscript and it tells me 'actionscript cannot be added to this'.

I know I am abviously missing something so any advice would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Sliilvia

Making Buttons Go With Nested Mc's
Alright guys. I'm a bit of a newcomer to flash- my skills are limited. Here's the situation. I have a movie clip (mcflowers) with some buttons in it. I want those buttons to, when released, go to a specific frame in nested movie clip (mctv). I've tried about a dozen variations on the paths, trying to figure out how to make it work, and. it. just. will. not. I'm getting pretty frusterated and wondering if anyone could help me out?

The flash file can be found at studentweb.uwstout.edu/westernm/wip2.fla, in case anyone is interested.

Also, it's set up so on roll over, tool tips appear over the buttons. Could that be it's undoing?

I will be eternally grateful for any help thrown my way. Thanks!