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Movieclip Acting As Button Not Quite Working
Hi all,
I'm trying to make a movieclip act as a button (I've done this before and it works for the most part) My problem this time is that the movieclip is simply a piece of text, and light text at that, so when I rollover or press the movieclip, the mouse has a hard time seeing where the movieclip is because it is thin type. When using buttons, you can have a hit state, but what do you do if you are using a movieclip? The movieclip is on a translucent background, so i can't fake giving it a background so it has something to hit on.
Any ideas?

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Howto: Movie Clip Acting As A Button Plays Out Animation And Then Goes To Content
Ok I've got a problem. I would like to have flash movie and it plays to a stop on the main time line.
Then interface comes up. The interface is made of movie clips acting as buttons.
I would like to some how get it when you click on a button it jumps to frame in the main timeline playing an out animation for the homepage content. But here is the tricky part for me I would like to get it 2 play the content connted with the button after the out animation is played.
So to give a very short example:

Press the movie clip acting as a button > it then jumps to the frame of the start of the out animation > out animation plays > depeding on the button u pushed that content comes up. so if they click the resume button after the out animation on the home page the resume page comes up.

Sry I know question was very long winded and not well phrased but I do really need some help on how 2 do this

Thx take it EZ

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AS3 Using A Movieclip As A Button With Animation
Hi There...

I am converting a AS2 site over to AS3 and and I am having an issue with one of the buttons(actually a movieclip) and its animation.

that short and sweet of it is as follows:
mouseover play frames 1-15, and on mouseout play frames 16-30

I know in AS3 it doesn't like to have any actionscript inside the movieclip, and therefore ignores the current stop();'s I have inside which prevent it from looping or going past frame 15 and 30 respectively.

I found the below code while doing some searches on this problem, yet I don't know how to control the movie clip with it. Currently the button(movieclip) just loops over and over again. (unless I do a myMc.stop(); of course)

ideally I would like the movieclip to play up to a certain point on mouseover, and then play to a certain point on mouseout.

Code:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

myMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollOverHandler);
myMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollOutHandler);
myMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickHandler);
myMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onPressHandler);
myMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onReleaseHandler);
// if you want a hand cursor
myMc.buttonMode = true;
myMc.useHandCursor = true;
function onRollOverHandler(myEvent:MouseEvent) {
trace("s1");
myMc.gotoAndPlay("_over");
}
function onRollOutHandler(myEvent:MouseEvent) {
trace("Out");
myMc.gotoAndPlay("_out");
// myMc.stop();
}
function onClickHandler(myEvent:MouseEvent) {
trace("I waited for Press AND Release!!!");
}
function onPressHandler(myEvent:MouseEvent) {
trace("Press");
}
function onReleaseHandler(myEvent:MouseEvent) {
trace("Release");
}
here is a link to my current button just incase my description doesn't really explain properly.

http://www.lovehate.ca/forum_stuff/button.swf

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Movieclip Acting Like Buttons
I have a question concerning movieclips. I created a few clips and made it so that on a rollOver they would fade in and as the mouse moved out it would fade out.

However, I did some tests, and if you move the mouse really quick over the flash window so that on one frame it hits the button but in the next it's off the flash window then it still registers that the mouse is over the button. It's really frustating. Is there a way to let the movie clip know when the mouse is outside the flash window or something. Maybe I'm creating it wrong. Please help.

I can't create just a simple button because of the fading out that needs to happen.

Here is the link: http://www.somacafe.com/demo

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MovieClip Acting Strange
Hallo everybody,
In my site I have a page that contains 2 empty movieClips as Holders. When triggered 2 movieclips are imported in the main stage inside the empty ones. The strange problem is that on one of the holder the MCL imported it just 4 lines of text and their mesurements match exactly the holder but when imported it goes on far right like it pushes the holder towards the right. I hope I made myself clear ( not an English speaking person)
the code I use is :

pic3.onRelease = function () {
loader._visible = true
mcl.loadClip("beauty.swf", holder4);
mcl.loadClip("beauty-grande.swf", holder5); //this is the line incriminated
}

thank you so much

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Trying to set up a button in my scene to trigger an animation/movieclip that isn't visible at all unless the button is pressed.
I've done this with sound loops but need to do it with animation.
I'm sure it's very simple but need some direction in the "right way" to do this.
Thanks in advance.
jmitteco

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I made a simple button and put it on the stage and when i go to preview the scene the hand cursor doesnt pop up in the traditional way like a button. It shows up but it doesnt give me my mouseovers or anything like that

its on its own layer and on the top of the stack anyone have any clue? Its so wierd

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I have 4 scenes and on each scene is a row of 4 buttons with the following actions:

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

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene 2", 1);
}

etc...

When you click on the buttons something very strange happens. If you click the 'scene 1' button once it goes to the first frame of scene 1, but if you click the 'scene 1' button a second time it goes to the first frame of 'scene 2'!

Does any one know what might be causing this?

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Hello all!

Is this possible?

I have one file named menu.swf that contains buttons loaded in the browser. Inside the same browser I have under the first one another file named anim.swf that contains an animation.

My question is: When the user clicks a certain button in the first file (menu.swf) can it interract an action within the other file (anim.swf)?

Like when the user clicks the button in menu.swf the looped animation stops in anim.swf. Note that these are not loaded movies but 2 seperate movies inside the same browser thus within the same html page...

Thank you so mutch for your help!

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AttachedMovie Is Acting Like 1 Big Button
My first post here...I was google'ing around to find an answer to my question and came across this site....what a find!

I have an .as file with a custom a class. When I call the function below, it does everything I expect it to do...and then some. The mc that is loading (attaching) acts like a button. The cursor turns into a hand and it also clickable. I do not currently have any links inside this mc...but eventually I will.

Code:
function loadContent() {
if (_level0.currentpage != null) {
_level0.currentpage.removeMovieClip();
}
//Load content movie clips
var clipName = this._name + "_content";
_level0.currentpage = _level0.attachMovie(clipName, clipName,
this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:401, _y:300});
}
What am I doing wrong...or what am I not doing at all?
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I am new Flash, but not programming. If any info is required I will be glad to do so.

Thanks in advance

John

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Hi,

I have created a website with Flash on a Mac. I use dreamweaver to place the flash into an html page. On the Mac the site works fine, but on a PC you have to double click the buttons for them to work. The background is acting like a button but it isn't. The home page doesn't even have a background. The address is: http://www.graceofspringhill.net so you can see what I am talking about.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Can anyone explain how one would draw a movie clip to act as a button. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Now bear with me, as I'm a Flash super-newbie.

I've got a button whose hyperlink doesn't seem to cover the whole button. I can't really explain it, but I can show you:

http://portal.iowarecorders.org

The "Services" button is the one that is messed up. If you click on the right side of the word "Services" it actually takes you to "default.asp". I'm not sure what I messed up, but could someone please take a look at my .fla file and tell me what I did:

http://portal.iowarecorders.org/flash/banner.fla

Thanks,
Matt

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Hello:

This is my first attempt at flash and I ran into some problems when creating buttons from text. When you roll over the text it does not activate the buttons down or over state.

I made a rectangle over the text in the hit area but that does not seem to work on rolling over the text. It works around the text but not on it.

I then made the text static and gave it a variable name, because I did not know what else to do.

I am at a loss and figured I would ask the community.

Here are the links to get to the site and access the fla.

Link to flash intro

link to flash fla

Thanks for any help

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Movie_mc.onRollOut Acting Like A Button?
So I've got a movie clip that contains a menu list that I want the user to scroll, select, and all that jazz. However, if they roll out of the mc, I want the movie clip to go away. The clip work absolute perfect until I add the following

Code:
chapMenu_mc.onRollOut = chapMenu_mc.end();
chapMenu_mc.end(), among other things, sets chapMenu_mc._visible = false.

The minute I add the above line, chapMenu_mc stops behaving like a movie clip and starts acting like a button. It switches the cursor to the click hand and won't let me interact with the list inside the mc.

What gives? and how do I get it to behave properly?

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Hi everyone,

Having some trouble with a button (with the flashing grey box). It's looping through the animation, and I want the grey box to appear on mouse over. It's messing up the other animations as well. I'm getting error that the property can't be found even though the naming looks right to me.

This is probably a simple mistake, I'd be extremely grateful if someone could take a look at it. When I add AS, the animation above breaks too, without the AS, it plays correctly. (Arrow animation stops, bars continue motion)

Thanks!

-Andrew

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I have a movie clip that stops all sounds and also stops the timeline. On.Release, it also goes to a frame on the movie clip that displays a play button. I don't know action script well enough to understand how to allow the user to click the same button (now that it is stopped on the play frame) to restart the sound and play the timeline. This is what I have:

pause.onRelease = function():Void {
if (pause._currentframe ==1) {
pause.gotoAndStop("on");
stop();
_root.pageSound.stop();
}else{
pause.gotoAndStop("off");
}
};

Look forward to help on this - once I can get it right - I'll use it over and over.

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Hey guys,

Im hoping osmeone can help me here, im struggling to understand why something is happening in my flash movie...

I have movie clips as buttons, which work, they are just expanding buttons, but when you are right on the edge the movie clip seems to not be able to decide if the mouse is over it or not, it 'flickers' between the states of over and off...

Anyone with any info would be great,

I would post the .fla file, but i odnt know how on here...

OK, have linked it form the old site webspace

site.fla

Thanks,
Cokes

Admin: Sorry this is a reposting of my previous thread, because the title was ribbish in the old, if you can delete, please do, thanks

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I really don't know what and how this is happening..

I took one Imported Image, converted it to Symbol (Graphic). Another vector art i created. I combined these two to form one main Symbol (Button).
Now i applied an onRollover action with a script to do something on this button.

Very strangely, when the mouse goes over the Vector art area.. the script activates, but it doesn't do so when the mouse goes over the Bitmap Symbol area.. WHY!!!???

Thanks,
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Howdy.
I've got a button nested in a movie clip. The user can interact with the button through a set of "verbs" expressed as variables in the main timeline (specifically: inspect, talk, and look). When the button is clicked, the button script needs to refer to the verb variable on the main timeline, and depending on the value, attach a specific movie inside the movie clip the button sits in, not on the main timeline. (although it wouldn't attach a movie to the main timeline either when I tried that)

This is the code I've written on the button (I'm not the cleanest actionscript writer)

code: on (release) {
//check the root variable and let me know what it is
trace(_root.verb);
//if the selected verb is inspect, attach this movie
if (_root.verb=insp) {
attachMovie("hall_i_veallife", "box", 1);
//if the selected verb is talk, attach this movie
} else if (_root.verb=talk) {
attachMovie("talk_false", "box", 1);
//finally, if the verb is observe, attach this movie
} else if (_root.verb=look) {
attachMovie("hall_o_veallife", "box", 1);
}
}

(note: I know I haven't specified co-ordinates here for the attached movies, that's not the problem)

NOW, the trace action returns the correct values from the verb variable in the root timeline.
The movies to be attached are in working order, and I can get the button to attach the movie perfectly if I don't include the "if" statements (but it needs them to load different responses).

But I haven't got a clue why, when I press the button, the movies are not attached at all. Have I just totally overlooked something in the way it's written? What's wrong?

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Hello and thanks for your help in advance. I'm having a weird problem with what seems like a very simple issue to me. I have an action attached to a button:

Code:
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndStop (65);
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("C Viewer");
}
It's the "on (release)" part that isn't working... the rollout works fine. It just sends me back about 12 frames and not to the scene (or frame i tried that) indicated. I have also tried going to a different frame, creating a new button to try to go to the scene etc etc. It never behaves by sending me to the scene or frame I specify. I am really stumped. Please help. I can email or post the .fla if necessary.

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
this.nextFrame();
} else {
this.prevFrame();
}
}

I have this code on a movie clip which is acting as a button. I also want to have the ability to hit the movie clip and allow it to jump to a further frame in the original timeline. I did use this:

on (release) {gotoAndStop("frame6");

}

Under the coded above as this would make sense, but its just not working. Im pretty new to flash and would really like to get this function to work.

If you can let me know where im going wrong, that would be kind, thnak you.

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Hi everybody,

i've an AS 2/1 programmer for as long as it has been around and recently i've been getting more and more work done in AS3. I absolutely love it, but there's still some small parts ruining the fun for me

This is just a small thing bugging me and i'm not finding a solution very quickly, here it is :

i have a sprite on stage , and within that sprite is a textfield. Now the sprite has buttonMode enabled and has listeners attached.
But the thing is that when i hover on the sprite, i see a nice handcursor, but when i hover on the textfield inside this sprite, the handcursor dissapears, but the listener is still fired when clicked here.

How can i fix it so that the entire sprite feels like a whole button?

Many thanks for reading

*Edit *
Also, it seems that the textfield and sprite fire off the same event to the same function, but the event target seems to differ depending on what you clicked, it seems illogic because i have no listener attached to the textfield, is there also a fix for this?

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I was playing around last night trying to learn simple AS to make a movie clip act like a button. I wanted the button movie clip to reduce the alpha value of the other movie clip when you rollover the button and when you roll off the button the alpha of the movie clip goes back up. It works, but if you keep rolling over and out of the button movieclip sometimes the alpha gets stuck at a certain value for a bit, then does what its supposed to. Any ideas why? I'm using onEnterFrame () to do the hitTest constantly.

Thanks

Here's the SWF and FLA files for you to look through:

hitTest SWF
hitTest FLA

Here's the AS code I used in the frame to do this:

Code:
onEnterFrame = function() {
if ( background._alpha > 100 ) {
background._alpha = 100;
}
if ( background._alpha < 0 ) {
background._alpha = 0;
}
if (hitTest( _root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
background._alpha -=25;
}
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background._alpha +=25;
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Well, it loads the external swf, but unloads the scrollpane at the same time.
SO WIERD

Why would this happen? Is it suppose to happen? HELP PLEASE!!!

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code:
var LN:Number = 3;
//layer number for keeping track of movieclips
//Initialize empty movieclips:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("roomRight", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("roomLeft", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("doorLeft", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("doorRight", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("titleScreen", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("navLeft", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("navRight", LN);
LN++;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("navDown", LN);
LN++;
titleScreen.attachMovie("titleScreen", "TS", LN);
titleScreen._xscale = 180;
titleScreen._yscale = 180;
titleScreen.onRelease = function() {
titleScreen.removeMovieClip();
runGame("left Engine");
};
createDoorLeft = function () {
doorLeft.attachMovie("doorLeft", "DL", LN);
doorLeft._visible = true;
doorLeft._x = 58;
doorLeft._y = 205.5;
};
createDoorRight = function () {
doorRight.attachMovie("doorRight", "DR", LN);
doorRight._visible = true;
doorRight._x = 532.7;
doorRight._y = 205.5;
};
createNavLeft = function () {
navLeft.attachMovie("navLeft", "NL", LN);
navLeft._visible = true;
navLeft._x = 0;
navLeft._y = 0;
};
createNavRight = function () {
navRight.attachMovie("navRight", "NR", LN);
navRight._visible = true;
navRight._x = 693;
navRight._y = 0;
};
createRoomLeft = function () {
roomLeft.attachMovie("roomLeft", "RL", LN);
roomLeft._visible = true;
createDoorLeft();
createNavRight();
};
createRoomRight = function () {
roomRight.attachMovie("roomRight", "RR", LN);
roomRight._visible = true;
createDoorRight();
createNavLeft();
};
killRoomLeft = function () {
roomLeft._visible = false;
doorLeft._visible = false;
navRight._visible = false;
dy_text.text = "Killed room left";
};
killRoomRight = function () {
roomRight._visible = false;
doorRight._visible = false;
navLeft._visible = false;
dy_text.text = "Killed room right";
};
runGame = function (room:String) {
switch (room) {
case "left Engine" :
dy_text.text = "You are in the "+room+" room.";
createRoomLeft();
navRight.onRelease = function() {
killRoomLeft();
runGame("right Engine");
}
break;
case "right Engine" :
dy_text.text = "You are in the "+room+" room.";
createRoomRight();

doorRight.onRelease = function() {
killRoomRight();
runGame("left First Class");
}
break;
case "left First Class" :
dy_text.text = "You are in the "+room+".";
createRoomLeft();
break;
}
};

Thanks for any suggestions/corrections/etc.

Moto

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I am trying to use a movie clip symbol as a button and the code below allows me to do most of the functions apart from being able to take me to another frame in the scene and that is where i need help.

I am using the following code in a layer above the movie clip symbol:

this.button_mc.onRollOver = function() {
button_mc.gotoAndPlay("_over");
}

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}

I am using this for advanced animation when rolling over and out of the symbol.

Is there a code which can take me from this button to another frame in the scene. When i have tried i have only managed to go to another frame within the movie clip (as opposed to the scene).

Thanks for any help.

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However, the keyboard back button is now acting as a browser back button.... Any ideas why?

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}

In the button, I created two layers, one for the text, and one to act as a larger area to trigger the action. Also, the button is in the very top layer, so there shouldn't be any interference from another layer.

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How would i implement this effect into a button I made that contains a MovieClip as the over state? ::

onMouseOut{
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OR
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I have the movie stopping at the end and the graphics are all converted to buttons.
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ALternatively, do i need to this in actionscript?

Please let me know what is the method of doing this in Flash. This seems like a simple thing which i've seen in flash movies before but i can't find any answers or tutorials on how to do this.
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Button Inherits Movieclip And Movieclip Button Properties
Hi,

I am working on a component to blur pictures and use it as buttons. I got it all working but found something I do not completely understand. May be somebody knows the answer. Since movieclips can also be used as buttons I started to define a new class (I show only fractions of the script):

PHP Code:

MovieClip.prototype.createBase=function(eqClip,eqClip_1,eqClip_2,tPress,tRover,tLoad){

and so on...

}
    if(tPress){
        tRover=false;
        tLoad=false;
        this.onPress=function(){
            //count will advance here.
            count++;
            //first we fade out the pic
            fadeOut();
        }
    }
    if(tRover){
        tPress=false;
        tLoad=false;
        this.onRollOver=function(){
            count++;
            fadeOut();
        }
    }
    if(tLoad){
        tRover=false;
        tLoad=false;
        this.onLoad=function(){
            count++;
            fadeOut();
        }
and so on..

Button.createBase(eqClip,eqClip_1,eqClip_2,tPress,tRover,tLoad);

Actually "button" is the name of a movieclip, which inherits the new properties. I can now put instances on stage and write something like:
button1.onRollOver=function(){
this.Button.onRollOver();
}
button1.onRelease=function(){
textField.text="This is button 1 in action.";
}
This will do all what is supposed to do.

But when I change the name of the Movieclip to "myBut", it only performs the blurring but I cannot use it as a button any more and onRelease does not work. In other words if we name a movieclip "Button" or "button" it will automatically inherit button properties. Is that the case? Anybody heard of that?

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