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Movieclips As Buttons Embedded In Movieclips
Hi,

I have a couple movie clips embedded inside a main movie on the root of my movie.

i have an action onRollover applied to the main movie clip, which triggers actions on the movie clips inside it.

i want to use the child movie clips as buttons, but i am getting no response to the code below:

ActionScript Code:
this.mcPic.onRollOver = function() {
trace("rollover");
_root.mcPic.btnBuy.xSlideTo(135, .5, "easeOutBounce");
_root.mcPic.btnListen.xSlideTo(105, .5, "easeOutBounce");
}

this.mcPic.onRollOut = function() {
trace("rollout");
_root.mcPic.btnBuy.xSlideTo(360, .5, "easeOutBounce");
_root.mcPic.btnListen.xSlideTo(-91, .5, "easeOutBounce");
}

// the following code here gives no response.

this.mcPic.btnBuy.onRelease = function() {
trace("click OK");
}
this.mcPic.btnListen.onRelease = function() {
trace("click OK");

}

any help would be appreciated.

thanks!
eric

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Getting My Buttons Active When Movieclips Are Within Movieclips
Ok so I have this site in progress with these neat drop down menus. When you rollover the image, two or more choices appear that link you to other pages. Only when you rollover them, the buttons don't work. The buttons work when you isolate each movie clip. But once I place the movieclip in the main time line, the buttons don't work anymore. The rollovers don't happen. They aren't clickable.

I need to know how to tell flash to make these buttons work. I can do this if a button is in the maintime line but not when it's embedded in a movieclip which is then embedded in the main time line. Get it?

I uploaded the work in progress so you can see what I mean. www.stephanieerdel.com/headermov.swf

rollover "Vibrations" and you'll see the choices pop up. In the movie clip each choice changes color when you rollover it. As mentioned before, when I put the clip in the main timeline, the buttons don't work. but you see them and the movie clip works fine.

If someone can write out what the code is to let flash know to make these buttons work, I would appreciate it soooo much.

Thank you!

-Stephanie

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I have movie where 100 presents are in the background and 10 spelial presents whitch the player must find.
The problem is that I have those 10 other movieclips
and i have this code in them:'

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
tellTarget ("box1") { (1,2,3....10)
gotoAndStop (2);
}
}

And the second frame in every mc is a empty frame.

Now when i click one movieclip, all movieclips goto frame 2 and all 10 presents disappear.
What to do to make only the mc which is clicked disappear?
[Edited by Jenska on 12-09-2001 at 10:31 AM]

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Buttons And MovieClips
I've made a movieClip with a few buttons inside. When I place the MovieClip in the Scene it looks great but when I attach ActionScript to "Goto" another Scene when I button is pressed, it will not do it. My question is: Is it possible to have MovieClips control a Scene? I know you can "Goto" any part inside the movieClip but how do I make the level0 Scene play at a certain frame or scene?

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I've made a movieClip with a few buttons inside. When I place the MovieClip in the Scene it looks great but when I attach ActionScript to "Goto" another Scene when I button is pressed, it will not do it. My question is: Is it possible to have MovieClips control a Scene? I know you can "Goto" any part inside the movieClip but how do I make the level0 Scene play at a certain frame or scene?

Here is what people have said so far that does not work:
-Is the scene being referenced as an expression?
-When you reference the frame/scene to goto in the main timeline, try sticking _root. in front of it.

Thank you.

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Movieclips With Buttons
Hi Flash Gurus,

I am working on a flash learning project. In one flash movie, the user has an exercise to drag colored circles from the left side of the page to different targets on a diagram.

I've done the coding and it works great except for a BAD occurance. If somebody drags one of the movie clips (which has a button in it of course) under another movie clip (with a button inside), and lets go of the mouse button, the movie clip that is on top (not the one that was being dragged) takes the mouse release action!

The result is that the movie clip does not stop dragging even though the person has released the mouse button and this screws up the rest of my code which checks to see if the movie clip was in one of the drop targets or not upon release...

I know this is not a flash bug, but the way that layering works. However, I need a fix! Somehow, I need to keep the movie clip that is being dragged from getting stuck when someone accidentally releases it when hovering under another button. The catch is that the user must be able to move the buttons in any order, so I can't simply force them to drag the movie clips in a particular order and layer them on top of each other from the top down.

Has anyone run into this and / or has a solution? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Adam Slesinger aka bread_man

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I have a button within a movieclip...I want to get the button to control the main timeline and not to work within the movieclip.

For example: When the button is clicked I want it to 'gotoandplay' frame 10 within the maintimeline, and NOT frame 10 within the movieclip the button is in!

Anyone know the answer?

Many Thanks

Elliot

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any one know how to make a mc into a button...

i know you need to use..

onclipevent(mousedown)
if (hitTest.... _xmouse....

but i cant seem to get it to work..

any ideas?

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i am trying to create a moving menu with buttons that link to other scenes in the movie. i have applied the actions to the buttons in movie clip edit mode. however, when i test the movie the buttons dont work. they highlight when i roll over them, but they dont take me to the next scene. i have put a stop action in frame 1 of both scenes, so its not that.

any help?

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hello,

1. I've seen an example of a movieclip used as a button.
Can anyone explain why I should rather use this rather than a
regular button with included movieclips?

2. I want to have two effects on a mouseover navigation button.
One effect should continue to work after you mouseover next nav.button, while the other should stop. (2 movieclips, or a movieclip + sound for example)

I guess Q2 is tied to Q1, but I feel I didn't get a clear explanation on WHEN and WHY to use a movieclip as a button in my Flash MX savvy book. Any directions to a tutorial would be nice.

thanks

- Xano

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Quick question,

I want to put a button inside a movieclip. The mc has an onclipEvent(enterFrame) event on it, and it seems to stop the button being active. Is this how it normally works? Anyone got any workarounds.

Ta much

K

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Buttons Within Movieclips::help
Hello,

I know this is probably a really simple exercise, but it's just not happening for me.

I'm having trouble with buttons in movieclips. I want to be able to navigate to scenes in the main movie from my movieclip.

I've tried using _parent & _root. but it isn't working...

can anyone help!!!

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i have a .fla set up with like 6 different scenes, and i want to have a movieclip on every page (which will be the navigation controls), with buttons inside that movieclip that change the scene. (This is a website if you havent figured it out yet) The problem is that no matter what i do it wont work! i tried gotoandstop("scene", 1) _parent.gotoandstop("scene", 1) and _root.gotoandstop("scene", 1) and i also tried using telltarget but nothing works! anyone know why?

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I have Flash MX and have been using Flash for quite awhile now, but one thing I never learned how to do was put a movieclip in the Over action of a button. I've read several tutorials, but for the life of me, I just don't understand it. Could someone please give me detailed step-by-step instructions or at least point me somewhere that has such information? Thanks.

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Buttons/movieclips
I'm trying to have my button(s) play a movie clip. My buttons work when I create a movie clip on the same scene. But what I'm trying to do is have my button play the movie clip as one key frame when viewed from the timeline. (Tell target)

This is what I did:
New document/created a button
Then added a new layer,and inserted a keyframe/convert to sysmbol.

Selected movieclip,did a motion tween,insert stop actions on the next layer.

When I select Scene1, the movieclip I created is supposed to appear as one keyframe automatically, but it dosen't.

I tried to copy and paste,but it pastes whole movie not just [.]

What am I doing wrong?

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I want to make a button with movie clip in the over state. How is that done?

for example, the buttons on this page: http://www.sodaplease.com/id_like_a_soda_please.html

Thanks,
DD

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Hi, i struggling with a basic task. Ive made a menu that scrolls out. This menu is inside a movieclip and has a few buttons on it. I want to tell the button to go to the next scene in the main movie. Ive tried the following.......where am i going wrong??

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("the next scene");
}

Any ideas???

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Buttons In Movieclips?
Hey

I was wondering...

will buttons work in movieclips? I have a flash movie/website made and the buttons wont work if out inside a movieclip (it makes the fla document a lot tidier and easier to create). Will i have to abandon the buttons in movieclips idea or is it possible. Also i have named a scene HOME. If i want a button from a different scene to go to this scene what would be the actionscript. i tried:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("HOME" ,1);
}

Would this be correct?

Seems there is 2 problems in 1!
Any help would be appreciated.

TedTLogan

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There's probably a very simple thing I'm missing here, but anyone have an idea on how to get buttons functioning inside of a movieclip in MX2004? I'm sure I've gotten it working before, but this is using a StartDrag script within it, however it doesn't seem to be working when I remove the script either.

Any ideas?

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Here is what is going on and it confuses me so much I need to get it straightened out. How come sometimes I can use a movieclip like a button, ie event handlers and sometimes not. In the site im working on I have a MC, on rollover it does an action and it works, on rollout it does the reverse of the action and that works, but when I do on press zilch. If the answer to that is simply too complicated maybe someone can post the difference between buttons and MC's from their maybe I can figure out the problem myself.

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can anyone tell me pls whats the oposite of

on(release){this._parent.gotoAndPlay("framelabel") ;}

-so that a button from the parent playes inside a movieclip (both on the curent timeline)

pls help! thanks!

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Buttons Within Movieclips
Hi,
I have a problem with buttons within movieclips. If i have a button within a clip, i cant seem to use that button on the stage, the button does not work at all. If i place the button on the root timeline.........it works!!

what is going on here?

thx in advance.

also can i do the following:

i have created a button, but instead of having one keyframe per button state, i have keyframes that extend across button states (eg: a keyframe in first state, followed by normal frames in concurrent states, making the clip used span across all state frames)
this is so that a certain animation will play itself out, and not restart when another button state is entered (as it would do if i had keyframes in each state). There are other layers that give flashing effects for mouseover etc.

What i am getting is i can see the flashing mouseover effect the whole time the button is onthe scene. This should only occur when i place mouse over the 'moving button'.

very strange.......

right...just changed to all keyframes(button), and i get same prob.......what it seems to be doing is jumping rom up state, to over state, and back again while the clip is moving, once it stops, it stays on over state, even when mouse is not over the clip.

i am using mouse.hide, and got a custom cursor that is dragged around....

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MovieClips Used As Buttons Plus More?
I am using MX

I want to mouse over, image changes to "rollover".
Then Rollout, image reverts back to "rollout"

I also want to "click" on the same movieclip and have the image change to "active" then click again and have the movieclip return to "inactive".

Problem: RollOver and RollOut work fine, when I click on the movieclip to select it to stay "active" it won't. It reverts back to the rollover function. There is conflict between these two function using the same movieclip. here is the code.

code:
on (rollOver) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndPlay("rollover");
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndPlay("rollout");
}
on (release) {
count++;
if (count%2) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndStop("active");
} else {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndStop("Inactive");
}
}

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Buttons In Movieclips?
I am using MX

Objective is to mouse over, image changes to "rollover".
Then Rollout, image reverts back to "rollout"

Plus, ( this is where is run into a problem)

I would also like to "click" on the same movieclip and have the image change to "active" then click again and have the movieclip return to "inactive".

Problem: RollOver and RollOut work fine, when I click on the movieclip to select it to stay "active" it won't. It reverts back to the rollover function. There is conflict between these two function using the same movieclip. here is the code.

code:
on (rollOver) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndPlay("rollover");
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndPlay("rollout");
}
on (release) {
count++;
if (count%2) {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndStop("active");
} else {
_root.MC_P_StoplightSW.gotoAndStop("Inactive");
}
}

I have a mockup sample attached. I have done some sloppy work arounds on it, but I would like to see a clean way to do if it can be done.
If "iaskwhy " is out there, happy holidays and I would like your take on it.

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Hi...

I have a button inside a animated MC.
I try to put an action on it to make it go to another scene.. But no way!!

The button reacts (it changes color), but it dosent take me anywhere..

I tried the script suggestion someone posted earlier:

on(release){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("salgs");
}

But still nothing happens...
Im using flash MX

??

regards!

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i've some buttons within a movieclip

i want these buttons to affect things in the main scene, is this possible.

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hey, ive been trying get back into flash after quite a break..

I have this problem, im working on a website for myself, and what I have is one jpg on top of another. I cut the top one up into squares with just using a hairline grid, and what I want to do is make buttons which plays a movie when the mouse goes over them. The movie is just the top image box fading revealing the one underneath.

The problem I have is that I only know how to play the movie if the mouse stays over the button for the duration of the movieclip.

Is there any way to make the whole movieclip play when the mouse just passes over the button without having to stay on it?

Thanks!

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My Flash file has two movie clips. The first movieclip, called 'buttons_mov', contains eight buttons. The second movieclip, called 'frames_mov', contains eight frames.

I want to set it up so that when 'button2' in buttons_mov is pressed frame_mov moves to frame 2. At the moment I know how to do this when the buttons are not in another movieclip:

on(press){
frames_mov.gotoAndStop(2);
}

But this doesn't work when the button is within its own movieclip. Can anyone help!!!

Thanks in advance!

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personally i never use buttons anymore prefer to use a movieclip i find it easier to work with.. but say ing that i am assisting on a job right now for someone and they have built the movie using buttons which for some reason my code will not work with..

One of two things has to change either my code or the buttons themselves.. either is fine but just out of interest what are the advantages of using movieclips instead of buttons?

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[F8] Movieclips Instead Of Buttons?
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions2.htm

Hey this tutorial is made for a project using actual Flash buttons but Im using movieclips as buttons instead. How can I get this to work with the MC buttons? Here is the code that is appiled to the buttons in the tutorial.

Code:
on (release) {

if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {

_root.currMovie = "main";
container.loadMovie("main.swf");
} else if (_root.currMovie != "main") {
if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {

_root.currMovie = "main";
container.play();

}

}

}

Also here is my FLA to see if maybe there is something else wrong.
http://www.spaodesigns.com/boardriders.fla

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I am having trouble using movieclips as buttons...I would like them to play the "on" state while they are being used, but then go to the "off" state when another is in use (ie, when you release the play icon, it shows it's on state, but when you press pause, it goes to the off state and the pause is on...kwim??)

I have gotten it to go on with this code:

Code:
on (release) {
tellTarget (_root.plus) {
gotoAndStop ("on");}
}
but can't seem to get the second half of this...any thoughts? TIA

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Earlier I was just playn around with MX 2004. I made two files of the same thing. A small rectangle thats 100x50 and made it into either a movie clip or button in the seperate files. And after looking at the file size is see that the mc is alot smaller than the button. The MC file size was 21.5kb and the button was 32kb. Im wondering why the the button was bigger? Theres nothing else in the files, just the same old rectangle. Thanks for any feedback

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Hi,

I've a problem with my flash site.

I used 4 buttons as movieclips, with instance.

The problem is that only my home button goes to the 'home' page, but if i click another button it doesnt go to to another page (youcan see the rollover tho).

I have 60 frames and on every 15frames a label with home and so on. (4btns).
This script i've on 1st frame:

Code:
gotoAndStop("home")

btn_home.onRelease = function(){
btn_home.gotoAndStop("home");
home.gotoAndPlay(2);
};

btn_profile.onRelease = function(){
btn_profile.gotoAndStop("profile");
profile.gotoAndPlay(2);
};

btn_portfolio.onRelease = function(){
btn_portfolio.gotoAndStop("portfolio");
portfolio.gotoAndPlay(2);
};

btn_contact.onRelease = function(){
btn_contact.gotoAndStop("contact");
contact.gotoAndPlay(2);
};
So if i click on home, it just moves to home like its supposed to be, but the other buttons give problems :/

Hope someone can help me,

Thx.

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Hey, I have encountered yet another stumbling point with my Flash movie.

I have a button which is located within 3 or 4 layers of a movieclip and when clicked I want it to go to a frame on the main timeline. Obviously the buttons do not work when I put the following code on:

Btn1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Button1);

function Button1(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(102);}

Could anyone tell me what I have to do to make them functioning?

Thanks,

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i have this code inside the button event is there something wrong?

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}

and the button will link to that scene. However, in a movie clip it doesn't work. Does anyone know how I can keep the button in the movieclip but have it link to the scene? Thanks,

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My problem is that when the mouse rolls out of one movie clip and over another one too quickly, the first movie clip gets stuck at the rollOver state. Am I making sense? Is there AS I can add so that is says something like -- if the mouse is not inside a certain parameter, gotoAndPlay rollOut? What can I do to fix this?

Thanks.
b.

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Hi there. I really feel like im trying to recreate the wheel here, so i thought I would ask some expert advice.

What I want my end result to be is:

There is a large box. When you rollover it, a selection of buttons appear within the box. They dont just instantly appear - there will be some sort of fading etc. Once they have appeared, these buttons link to external pages. Quite simple? I thought so. But I keep coming up against brick wall after brick wall.

Bottom layer is an invisible button (box_mc) that controls the main rollover. Top layer is movieclip (alpha) that houses the link buttons.

box_mc has this code:

Code:
on (rollOver) {
alpha.gotoAndStop(2)
}
which causes alpha to show the buttons. Because the mc alpha is on top of box_mc, alpha's buttons work just fine.

Now I need the buttons to dissapear if I I rollOut of box_mc, but cant for the life of me get this to work. I thought what if i had had a hittest somewhere for box_mc to say 'if mouse rollsoff box_mc, then hide buttons'. Maybe this would work, but i cant get hittest to do this the way i want it.

Can someone/some people help me out with this? I'm having a lot of trouble with something that fundamentally shouldnt have taken more than an hour. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

here's my fla file http://dev.digitalgenus.com/digitalgenius/htpc.zip

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I want to do that, only when somthing is true the Button can be press.

for example:
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"the button cant be press(UnActive)"
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how can I do that? (Active and UnActive button).

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Ok, I'll try and keep this short and simple. I'm trying to go to a particular frame on a _mc that is in it's own layer on the main timeline. The button that I want to do this is in another _mc which is also in it's own layer. I tried using a tellTarget but it doesn't work. It DOES work with the same script if the button is on the main timeline and not in another _mc, but that won't work with what I'm trying to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

More info on what it is I'm trying: on frame 1 of the root timeline I have my main menu buttons which work fine. Say I click on one button that goes to frame 2, ok, now in frame 2 I have 2 _mc's loaded: one is a scrolling thumbnail of buttons which I want to sow a larger image once they are clicked on. The 2nd _mc is the larger thumbnails with a blank keyframe at the bigginning so that no images are shown until one of the smaller scrolling thumbnails are clicked. Problem is I can't get the thumbnails to target that _mc with the larger images. This seems like something that could be easily fixable but I can't figure out how to use buttons with other _mc's to go to particular frames and stop in another _mc. Please help.

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Hi there, I'm having a problem with my button which is inside my movieclip.
When I click the button it goes to the desired place, but the button stays shown, and i want it to dissapear.

This is the scripting for the button.

on (press) {
_root.gotoAndPlay ("future");
}

So when it starts back at the start of the scene, I want the button to dissapear and not be there at all.

Ne help would b welcomed, cheers.

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ok i have a movie clip, on release play, but i have buttons with it too. and its smelling here cause its just does. well anyways. my buttons dont work and i have htis error message that keeps coming up, u htink u can help me?

someoen fix the error message but now why dont the buttons work on a movie clip?

do not download this fla ----> (download the one at the bottom in the .zip file..)

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Inside each button, there are 3 layers. actions layer has stop() on the frames after/at the end of a tween to move the buttons on the stage. But after you take the mouse away. The button stays where its supposed to.

But when you you bring the mouse back, it loops round back to the original position. I want it to stay where it was at the end of the tween. Really frustrated cant figure out how to stop it permanently. I put in a trace() msg, and its definately looping round.

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