Flash :: Button Inside Of A Button, Well Sort Of?

Button Inside Button - Only Parent's OnRelease Is Called (by Player Nature)
I am sure this is the most asked question in history of Flash, but I dont happen to know how to lets say create a popup menu, which should fade away when the user moves the mouse away yet make the movieclips in the menu have their onRelease handlers called. The issue is that when the menu gets the onRollOver and onRollOut handlers required to make the fade in/out work, the hand cursor appears over the whole menu, and the movieclips it contains dont dont react on the mouse anymore - the player seems to only consider the whole menu movieclip.

Is there a workaround for this without creating own mouse event handling system with hitTest and things like this ?

Maybe the trackAsMenu is relevant here ? I am not sure how to use it either

When You Click On A Button, The Button Grows Into A Large Box With The Content Inside
How in the world are people doing that?? Hopefully you know what I mean... and example would be right here. When you click on one of those boxes, you can open the "card" and then the white box grows into a larger box with the content inside. Is there a relatively simple way to do this?

*begging*

Creating A Sort Of Reset Button For Movieclips
Hi, i've got 10 movieclips in my movie. I use them for a sort of colour sudoku game and i wanted to have a reset button which reset them all to the first frame (which is a blank colour) Anyway, my problem is that if the movieclip is already on that frame, it automatically increments when the button is pressed. Does anyone have a solution as to how i would fix this problem?

Button Inside Complex Button RollOut/RollOver
I created a movieclip from the tutorial "Complex Button RollOut/RollOver Effects" which I want to use as a menu. Is it possible to add buttons inside this movieclip??? I try and try but the buttons are never recognized, only the movieclip can be pressed.

GotoAndPlay : Scene From A Button Inside A Button
Hi,

Two scenes : "scene1" and "scene2"
One button on the main scene... : instance = button
one button INSIDE this button : button2

from button 2, I need to swtich to another scene, for example scene2
How do I execute that?

I have tried putting button2 inside a mc on the main scene, but I can't because I need to put a startDrag on it...hence why I have a button inside a button.

thanks for helping?

Flash Mx 2004 Button Inside Button
hi all,

im having some problem... im working with flash mx 2004, and i have build a map of australia which i can mouse over all the states which is fine...

what i now need to do is when i mouse over a state 2 buttons have to 'pop up' (for lack of a better word), one that says "lease" and one that says "buy", when these buttons are clicked... dependant on which state is clicked and which button, i need to link to a webpage to be specified...

if anyone can help please do... thanks for your time and consideration...

Mojoinst.

Button Issues: Button Inside MC Not Working
Hey guys...
I am having an issue with a button nested within a movie clip not responding to mouse events.

FILES--------------------------------------

SWF: http://dev.emeraldcoast.com/seatownp.../flashMap.html

FLA: http://dev.emeraldcoast.com/seatownp...flashMap_5.fla

---------------------------------------------
The movie is a map viewer, I have some locations on the map that i want to display some info about in a "thought bubble" MC when the user mouses over an icon- in this case an airport icon for test purposes. I have my icon(button) placed inside the map(MC) which is masked on the main timeline. At runtime, the icon(button) will not respond and thus will not move the "thought bubble" MC and display the info.

The same buttons on the main timeline work perfectly. So, i assume it's something to do with the way flash propogates button events or something.

Code on main timeline:

ActionScript Code:
//moves Info Bubble to mouse location
function moveBubble() {
setProperty("bubble",_visible, "1");
var x = (_xmouse - bubble._x) * .3;
var y = (_ymouse - bubble._y) * .3;
if (Math.abs(x) < 1 && Math.abs(y) < 1) {
bubble._x += (_xmouse - bubble._x);
bubble._y += (_ymouse - bubble._y);
anchor.x = _xmouse;;
anchor.y = _ymouse;

} else {
bubble._x += x;
bubble._y += y;
anchor.x += x;
anchor.y += y;
}
}

Code on Icon(button)

ActionScript Code:
on (rollOver) {
anchor = {x: this._xmouse, y: this._ymouse};
this.onEnterFrame = _root.moveBubble;
_root.bubble.TL = "Pensacola Regional Airport";
_root.bubble.description = "6255 Airport Road Pensacola, FL 33654";
}
on (rollOut) {
this.onEnterFrame = null;
setProperty("_root.bubble", _visible, "0");
}

I really need to get this thing working. Deadline coming up!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Button Inside Movie Inside Button
Ok, i hope someone can help coz im stumped.

I have a button which plays a movie clip on rollover. The movie plays outside the buttons hit state and has a further button within it.

My problem is that whenever i roll out of the original button to press the new button within the movie clip i am outside the original buttons hit state so the movie vanishes.
I cant extend the original buttons hit state as i have 8 buttons close by which would interfere with each other and i also only want the rollover to work on a small area.

Any ideas how i can maybe change the hit state once the movie has played??
Or any other ideas.

Thanks

Button Inside Button Inside Movieclip
Now that I've got your attention with the hideous thread name, here is my problem.

I have a button inside another button which is inside a movieclip. *whew*
I have it so that when you click on the movieclip, a dialog box pops up. I have two buttons on the dialog box, but for some reason you can't click on them and when you do, the dialog box just disappears. Here's a picture of what I'm talking about, so how do i get the "YES/NO" buttons to work? Oh, the buttons are not included in that Graphic

Button Inside Movie Clip Inside Scrollpane Doesn't Work In Xml
This is sorta odd but I'm hoping somewhat easy to fix. This is in AS2 and is the last problem I have in a very small project of mine.

I have button called button01 inside a movieclip called movieclip01 which is the contentPath for a scrollpane called scrollpane01. I'd like the button to work, and depending on the code it will work in the normal .swf but won't when I embed my movie into xml.

If I put the code inside movieclip01

button01.onRelease=function(){
_root.gotoAndPlay("Frame Name");
}

It will work when I test it but not in the XML. So what I want to do is go to the main timeline where the scrollpane is and write the code there. That is where I'm stuck.

I've tried scrollpane01.movieclip01.button01 and tried movieclip01.button01 and also tried scrollpane01.button01. Just for giggles I also tried scrollpane01.movieclip01 but none of that works

Last night I had a similar problem with buttons inside a movieclip that was on the root stage. They worked in the swf but not when I embedded the file - so I found this which worked (typed in the root stage)

movieclip01.button01.onRelease=function(){

MC Button Inside MC Button Not Working?
I made a MC button that slides out to view 4 more MC buttons that are inside of it. The problem is the MC buttons inside of the MC will not respond to their rollOver actions. Here is the actionscript:

Main MC button: (works)
on (rollOver){
tellTarget(_root.music){
gotoAndPlay("rollover")
}
}
on (rollOut){
tellTarget(_root.music){
gotoAndPlay("rollout")
}
}

Embeded MC buttons: (don't work)
on (rollOver){
tellTarget(_root.musicMC.forwardButton){
gotoAndPlay("go")
}
}
on (rollOut){
tellTarget(_root.musicMC.forwardButton){
gotoAndPlay("stop")
}
}

Can someone please help me?

Button Inside Button With No Problems
Hello, I would like to know how can I create a button inside a button. It's a very strange question, but you may see an example here.

www.lacoste.com

I just loved the bottom buttons (Bar containg links (or buttons) to something else). If someone could explain how to get that same effect, i would be very glad. Thank you.

Clicking A Button Inside Of A Button?
Hi everyone,

I want to be able to click on a movieClip (used as a button) inside of another movieClip (used as a button). Confused? Please have a look at attached .fla and see if you can help?

Thanx in advance!

Rotating Movieclip Inside A Button, Inside A Scrolling Menu Bar
Hi all,

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Thanks!

-Sam

Rotating Movieclip Inside A Button, Inside A Scrolling Menu Bar
Hi all,

This question is going ignored in some other boards, so I thought I'd try here....

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Attached is the zipped fla file

Thanks!

-Sam

Behavior On Buttons Inside A Movie Clip Inside A Button.
I would like t create an animated button with menu inside, how do i do it.

something like on here http://www.demarchelier.net

hidden menu on left side (contents) but on flash. I have flash 8. any tutorial that explain how to do that ?

Tween Inside A Button Inside A Movie Clip
Say I have 3 squares, from left to right, blue, red, yellow. The 3 squares together are a MC that move from off the stage on right, across the stage to line up on the left. Now say I want to make the left blue square a button so that when you roll over it, it has a orange frame and then when you press down on it it dims, and a larger version of it shows up above it. how would I do this? What i've done so far is made a button inside the MC, then on the down state of the button made a graphic button for the blue square, but it doesn't stay dimmed, and I don't even know how to make the larger blue square appear.

Is this too confusing?
please help.
thanks

Button Inside A Movieclip Inside A Scene Help
i have a button inside a movieclip inside scene 1. i want to have the it so when the button is released, it will go to scene 2. can someone help.

Button Inside Swf Needs To Target Label Inside Different Swf
I have two different swf files (valet.swf and transit.swf) loaded into 2 different container MCs on a main timeline. One is in the container MC contentsValet the other is in contentTransit. I have a button inside the transit.swf that when pressed needs to go to the label "valet" inside the valet.swf file and am not having any luck with getting it to work.

Here is the code I tried to use on the button

on (release) {
_root.contentsValet.gotoAndPlay("valet");
}

HitTest Problem- In A Button Inside A Mc Inside
hi,

anybody can give me a simple code using hitTest();

I did'nt know what is the right syntax for this command and where is the right place to put it.

here's the situation:

I have a 'gallery' movieclip and nested to it is a gallery button and when you over it, it txt color change.

but d problem is i didn'tknow where is the right location to put the hitTEst code and what is the right syntax?

i put this in frame1 of code frame

stop();

profileNav.onPress=function() {
gotoAndStop("profile"); }

galleryNav.onPress=function() {
gotoAndStop("gallery"); }

pressNav.onPress=function() {
gotoAndStop("press"); }

contactsNav.onPress=function() {
gotoAndStop("contacts"); }

and this code to galleryNav movieclip

on (release) {

//Goto Webpage Behavior
getURL("D:/Normz/Graphic Design/projects/mary-2nd/flash-new/gallery.swf", "main");
//End Behavior
}

pls help me. thanks

norman-RP

Button Inside Mc Inside Mc Not Working...
Hi there

In the main scene I have a movieclip "Map" which contains a movieclip "BakerStreet" which contains an invisible button. I am trying to call up different actions inside the "BakerStreet" movieclip using a rollover but am having problems, it just doesn't understand. Can someone help please.

This is the code I am using on the invisible button inside "BakerStreet".

on (rollOver) {
_root.BakerStreet;
gotoAndPlay ("BakerStreetRollover");
}

Thanks for your help.

Paul

Button State Inside Mc Inside Another Mc With As Over It
Hi everybody,

I'm having a little problem with a button state. Any help is appreciated.
Here is my issue;

On the main timeline I've got 2 movie clips. When you move the mouse over mc x shows the mc y.
Onside mc x I have a button that has a motion tween applied to it. Inside that button I would like to change the color of the font on Over state.

When I use ActionScript to show or hide mc y the button state doesn't change to Over. As soon as I remove the Action script, it works just fine.

Please help me understand why this happens and how I can resolve it.

Thanks in advance!

Here are attached files.
button.zip

Trigger A Button Inside A MC From Another Btn Inside Another MC
Hi,

I have a series of buttons inside a MovieClip, that contain ActionScript. Inside another MovieClip I have another button that I want to trigger the actions from a specific button inside the first MC.

Here is the code for one of the series of buttons (i.e. Menu):

Code:

on (release) {
_root.container.unloadMovie();
_root.container.attachMovie("geral_respCorp", "liveContainer", 1);
this._parent.A.NewY = this._parent.A.OrigY;
this._parent.A.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.B.NewY = this._parent.B.OrigY;
this._parent.B.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.C.NewY = this._parent.C.OrigY;
this._parent.C.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.D.NewY = this._parent.D.OrigY;
this._parent.D.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.E.NewY = this._parent.E.OrigY;
this._parent.E.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.F.NewY = this._parent.F.OrigY;
this._parent.F.gotoAndStop(1);
this._parent.G.NewY = this._parent.G.OrigY+this._parent.Control.FH-this._parent.Control.ButtonH;
this._parent.G.gotoAndStop(1);
play();
}
This code is for the button named "A" inside the MovieClip "MainMenu".

Now, in the movieclip loaded in the container MC, I have a button named "Next", and basically this button unload the MovieClip loaded inside the container and load another one, but I want to assign the code of the "A" button, to this button.
I had tryied to make somthing like this:

Code:

on (release) {
_root.container.attachMovie("business_key", "liveContainer", 1);
MainMenu._parent.A.NewY = MainMenu._parent.A.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.A.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.B.NewY = MainMenu._parent.B.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.B.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.C.NewY = MainMenu._parent.C.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.C.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.D.NewY = MainMenu._parent.D.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.D.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.E.NewY = MainMenu._parent.E.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.E.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.F.NewY = MainMenu._parent.F.OrigY;
MainMenu._parent.F.gotoAndStop(1);
MainMenu._parent.G.NewY = MainMenu._parent.G.OrigY+MainMenu._parent.Control.FH-MainMenu._parent.Control.ButtonH;
MainMenu._parent.G.gotoAndStop(1);
play();
}
But nothing happens. can someone help me in this matter?

thank you
Eduardo Ribeiro

A Button Inside A Button
I have made an xml news ticker using Flash MX, the xml content is turned into a string that is placed in a text field and formatted using the basic html commands that flash text fields allow.

The news is continously scolling and on(rollOver) it stops. But when you rollover a "href" (as the news content contains links) it starts scolling again as if you had rolled out.

Any ideas how I could stop this from happening?

Button Inside The Button
Hi. I'm a rookie and have a problem with buttons.

I'm trying to assign the action to the button itself, not the insatance of button, and someone told me to make a shape under the "hit" frame of a button, convert it to a button and assign the action to the button that is created within the button.
But everytime i try to do this, the original button isn't recognized as a button, so I can't click it except for the type area.
It's kinda hard to explain, so please look at my attatchment.

In the attachment, I assigned the action to the instance of the button "scene 1", so it works, but I assign the square that is coverted to symbol, created under the "hit" frame for the button "scene 2". So as I said, "scene 2" button doesn't work.

Basicaly, what I'm trying to do is by assigning the action to the button, I don't have to go through all 15pages of entire website and assign the action to the each instance in the each page. So as long as I can assign the action to the button that's gonna effect all the button in each page, or if there's any other way, that would do it for me.

Please, someone help me!!
I'm strugling to explain righ here ( ), so if you don't understand what I'm trying to say, please post questions. I'll do my best to explain my problem.
Thanks,
Shun

Button Inside Of A Button?
how do i put a button inside of a button so the first button wont close? or how do i get around this problem?

Button Inside The Button
Hi
I need some help please.
Because my english is not that goot, to explain to you what i need .. so i made a little animation.

please take a look

thnx

Button Inside A Button
I am trying to make a menu inside a button. It works like you highlight the one button, it's over frame is a menu, the menu has some links inside of it. When I do that, whenever I highlight one of the links in the sub-menu, the button flickers between the original button and the menu. Is there any way to fix this?

[F8] A MC Button Inside Another MC Button
first , forgiv my language please .

I designed a banner like when you rollover your mouse to left side edge of it , it curls like an edge of a paper and a menu comes up under. So the banner itself is designed as a MovieClip button named "banner_mc" and the code i used to animate it which works fine :

Code:
_root.banner_mc.onRollOver = function() {
banner_mc.gotoAndPlay("_over");
}

_root.banner_mc.onRollOut = function() {
banner_mc.gotoAndPlay("_out");
}
I got four menu items. Each of 'em is a MovieClip as well , got its own animation and they're inside "banner_mc" movieclip.The code i used to animate 'em which does'nt seem to work :

Code:
_root.banner_mc.button1_mc.onRollOver = function() {
banner_mc.button1_mc.gotoAndPlay("_over");
}

_root.banner_mc.button1_mc.onRollOut = function() {
banner_mc.button1_mc.gotoAndPlay("_out");
}

.........
.........
I wrote this right after the first one which belongs to banner_mc.When i test my movie , banner works fine , it curls up on rollover and down on rollout but menu items under dont work. I can see them but when i rollover top of 'em they don't come up with their animations.Well , as you guess How to fix it is my question.
Thanks for any answer.

Button Inside A Button
hi,
I have a button inside a movie clip which itself has its own on(press) and on(rollOver) functions. I need it to be in there, because when the outside MC is rolled over the whole mc moves, including the button inside it
but once the outside mc has on(press) or on(rollOver) function defined for it, the button inside stops functioning

how do I work around this?

Button MC Inside Button MC
Im using a button MC to create a roll on/off function:

Quote:

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onRelease = function(){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("target1");
}

This works fine, when I roll over it, it creates a simple animation which rewinds on roll off. The problem is that there is a set of buttons with in this button MC which arent working. Obviously this is because I am still on the rollover state within the first button. Is there anyway around this other than having to use the old Invisible button on top of MC method.

Thanks

Button Inside A Button
Hi there,

IÂ´ve started doing a homepage and would like to get a menu bar or what its called to get animated. I know that itÂ´s not possible to create it with ordinary buttons, because then you have to do buttons within buttons and that will not work. So how do I do it? Anyone? Please watch the link for reference.

http://www.abercrombie.com/anf/index.html

Regards

Ã¥Ã¤Ã¶789

Button Inside Button?
Hi
i was thinking if i could make a button that when you do mouseover it brings up a bar saying "background" at the top and a list of colours to choose
the colours are buttons and u click to change the background for the whole site

What would the actions be?

i thought maybe

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("background", 2);
}
but when you go over the button inside the button it disapears to the buton u mouseover

Button Inside Of Button
I am working on a project off of someone else’s and of course people do things differently. This person put a button inside of a button and all works except I cannot get the button to trigger an action. Can someone please take a look?

MC Button Inside MC Button
Hello, I'm very confused about how to make a Button inside a button.
In this example, I have a Movie Clip Button which reacts to a regular OVER action when mouse is placed over (!). New buttons will appear inside this previous button, and I would like to assign actions to this inner button but without losing the action for the external button.

Button Inside Of A Button
if you check out

http://ronnieswietek.com/hosted/circasurvive/

you can see that scrolling list I have. My problem is, I need the user to be able to click the "send to phone" button, but since I have RollOver and release links on the list, it wont allow me to select the send to phone button. Here is my AS..its loading the text from XML

ActionScript Code:
for (var i = 0; i < fileLength; i++) { var node = xml.firstChild.childNodes[2].childNodes[i].attributes; var title:String = node.title; var keyID:String = node.keyID; var keyName:String = node.keyName; var fileID:String = node.fileID; titleAR.push(title); keyIDAR.push(keyID); keyNameAR.push(keyName); fileIDAR.push(fileID); bttnHeight = 22; menu.content_mc.image_mc.duplicateMovieClip("image_mc" + i,i); menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].id = i; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i]._y = (bttnHeight + 1) * i; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].txt.autoSize = true; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].txt.text = title; var mc = menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].txt; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].price_txt._x = mc._x + mc._width + 20; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].onRelease = function() { loadSong(this.id); }; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].onRollOver = function() { this.bar.colorTo(0xffffff,0,"easeOutExpo"); this.txt.colorTo(0x1A1A1A,0,"easeOutExpo"); this.price_txt.colorTo(0x1A1A1A,0,"easeOutExpo"); }; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].onRollOut = function() { this.bar.colorTo(0x1A1A1A,0.5,"easeOutExpo"); this.txt.colorTo(0xffffff,0.5,"easeOutExpo"); this.price_txt.colorTo(0xffffff,0.5,"easeOutExpo"); }; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].sendToPhone.onRelease = function() { trace("HI"); }; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].sendToPhone.onRollOver = function() { this.txt.colorTo(0xffffff,0.5,"easeOutExpo"); }; menu.content_mc["image_mc" + i].sendToPhone.onRollOut = function() { this.txt.colorTo(0x000000,0.5,"easeOutExpo"); }; }

any ideas?