Flash :: Movie Clip Buttons With Down State PLEASE HELP

[F8] Is There An Active State For Movie Clip Buttons?
Hi All,
I have functions for my movie that do a on press, on release, on rollout states. But I was wondering what the code or if there was an example how how to code in action script. If the user clicked on the button then it would keep a color to show that is the active button that was clicked already?

Similar to the HTML: active state

Any ideas ? Actionscript 1 please

Can You Still Get Buttons To Change State While Even In A Movie Clip?
Hello,

I trying to do an effect where the navigation flash buttons on a page slowly move back and forth, but still hopefully change color when you roll over them. I made my buttons, then put them all in a movie clip to get the motion, however, when you roll over the buttons they don't change the color I intented them to do. Oddly enough, you can still click on them and they'll take you to the pages I assigned them. Is there any way to get the roll-over effect, but still have the buttons slowly move on the page?

BTW: the button states were each created in photoshop, just in case.

Thanks!

Rob

Movie Clip Buttons Down State Question
Hi all

Flash beginer, sorry if this is a simple question.

I'm working on a new site for the company I work for and I want to have a flash menu. See my example

http://www.jaybe.co.uk/zzz.html

I've managed to get the buttons glowing on the roll over and then returning to the original state on roll out, this looks really nice and I'm happy with it but I want:-

When a button is clicked like beds for instance I want this to remain with a large glow ie. the roll over state until a new button is pressed. When the new button is clicked this will then become highlighed so the user always knows which page they are on.

I will appreciate any help but please bear in mind that I can't write action script like Lee. I undestand what I'm looking at but i find writing it difficult but I'm determined to learn.

Thanks

Ricky55

Slight Problem With Movie Clip Buttons With Down State
Hi

Some one helped with with this code the last time I did a menu like this but this time I'm using a dummy button inside my main movie clip just to ensure the buttons are easy to click.

I have a menu bar made up of animated movie clips this is all working as I want apart from one small thing. I can set which button I want to be down intially this works but when I roll over it re enables instead of just remaining down.

The menu can be seen here:-
http://www.creativeauto.co.uk/home.html

How do I get the exterior styling button to just remain down even if I roll over it. (or when any button is down I don't want it to re enable)

My code

Code:

//Container to hold the active menu item
activeMenu = undefined;

//Sets which buttons is to be down intially
activeMenu = exteriorStyling_mc;
activeMenu.gotoAndStop("down");

//example of the code for the buttons
exteriorStyling_mc.exteriorStyling_btn.onRollOver = over;
exteriorStyling_mc.exteriorStyling_btn.onRollOut = out;
exteriorStyling_mc.exteriorStyling_btn.onPress = clicked;

//the functions

function over() {
// check if not an active menu
if(_root.activeMenu == undefined || this._name != _root.activeMenu._name) {
this._parent.gotoAndPlay("on");
}
}

function out() {
// check if not an active menu
if(_root.activeMenu == undefined || this._name != _root.activeMenu._name) {
this._parent.gotoAndPlay("off");
}
}

function clicked() {
// reset old active menu item
if(_root.activeMenu != undefined) {
_root.activeMenu._parent.gotoAndPlay("off");
}
// make menu active
this._parent.gotoAndStop("down");
// save new menu item
_root.activeMenu = this;
}

Movie Clip Hit State
Hi,

I have some movieclips acting as buttons, what I want to do is give them a visited, or currently hit state.

I have kind of achieved this but when another button is clicked then I need to reset the first button to its original stater# so I dont have more than one button in a 'hit state'.

The buttons cannot be referenced in any way as there are loads of them in my actual site, so this may not be possible

I have linked an exaple fla that better depicts this.

Hope some one can help,Thanks

How Do I Get A Movie Clip Into A Button State?
Hello again. Thx for the help last time but I am still having some trouble implementing it. I am trying to simulate a beating heart on MouseOver. Rather than scripting anything, it was suggested that I create a Movie clip of a beating heart separately and then insert into the button's Over state. How exactly do I do that? I have made a 4 keyframe MC, then on another canvas made the Heart button, but I don't see any way to insert the MC into the Over state. I can't find any examples in the 2 Flash books I have nor this site. Help!!

And again, I appreciate the help. Some of you guys really know your stuff.

Movie Clip Into A Button State
Is placing a multiframe movie clip into the keyframe of a button's over state possible? On rollover of a button, I want to give the impression that the button is pulsating. Many thanks for the help.

Movie Clip In A Button's Over State?
Hi,
Is it possible to insert a movie clip into the over state of a button? Whenever I try this, it only shows the first frame when the buttons are enabled. I basically just want to have a few small tweens happen when the user rolls over the button.
Thanks

Movie Clip In The Down State Of A Button
I'm creating a button to change audio tracks in my movie(s). When the user clicks on the button, I want it to play a small mc animation once through. The problem is, if the user doesn't hold the mouse down, it reverts back to its up state. Is there any way to make sure that the animation plays once through even if the button is switched to the up state? I just started working in flash a few days ago, so I assumed this would go in the newbies section.

Movie Clip On Button Hit State
okay, i have a movie that i wish to run on the hit state of a button i created. but on release of the mouse button, the movie stops. im guessing i need actionscript, right?

Movie Clip In Button's Down State
hi everyone.
I have a button in Flash MX with a quick movie clip in the button's down state. My problem is how do i get the button to play the button's full animation once clicked before calling the URL for the next page? The full animation only happnens if you hold down the mouse button and dont release it, othewise you'd only see a couple of frames.
Thanks

[F8] Movie Clip Button Over State
Hello i have movie clip
I have a button in there, I have text come up on the over state but this is now now not coming up could anyone please tell me one how i can make it come up or how to get around it thanks guys

Movie Clip State Externally
I have a movie clip in a file called main.swf that runs my menu. I also have image links directly on my homepage to get people to the still forming key areas of my site. These Images are in a seperate "homeText.swf", HomeText is in a sub folder. In HTML it would be something like "../main.swf" etc.

I need the movie clip mcMenuOne to change frame when these images are clicked.

Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Action Script book is for Flash 5 does anyone have recomended reading for the current, or MX04 Flash?

Sweet, Lunch time, I'm outa here.

Problem With 2 State Movie Clip
I have a movie clip that is an 'about' button. It has 2 frames one for each state(see gif). The problem is I have added the following code to the rollover (blue box). It traces the message but does not move the timeline. Any reason why the this keyword should not work here?

inv2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, goBack);

function goBack(event:MouseEvent) {
trace('yo');
this.gotoAndStop(1);

}

Capturing The State Of A Movie Clip At A Particular Instance?
Hi! Can anybody help me with this!
I have a movie with a heavy actionscript code running in the first few frames. I am using this movie into another main movie and eveytime I do so, the script gets executed and this slows down the main movie load time.
What I want is if I could capture the state of the first movie after a certain number of frames and ...say it can be saved in a .swf fromat. I can use this into the main movie. This will remove the load time, I think.
Can anybody suggest how to go about it ? or if any other way to get rid of the load time ?

Thanks! Please help!

maven5.

Movie Clip Won't Stop Playing In Over State....
i have inserted a movie clip into the over state of a button. i only want the clip to play on rollover, but it is currently playing on rollover, and onclick.

i think flash is atomatically resetting the button when i click on it, then when it sees that my mouse is still on the button, it plays the movie again.

anyone have any suggestions?

Mouseover State While Playing A Movie Clip
how do i stay on a mouseover state while playing a movie clip. I have attached my file as the example.

i would like the text "LINK" to stay "up" while the 2 links appear, how do i do that? any suggestions?

thanks,
jgatienza

How To Make The State Of A Movie Clip Global?
Hi guys,

I've got 9 frames in my .fla for different parts of my application, i've made a really neat sound control movie clip with volume slider etc, which runs from actionscript on the main timeline.

My problem is that i'd like the sound control movie clip to be on each screen/frame of my application. Placing it on the stage is not enough because it obviously requires the code repeated on the main timeline, but somehow I need the current state to be passed on (so the volume is consistent).. bearing in mind frames can be visited in any order.

What approach would be recommended?

Reseting The Movie Clip To The Orginal State
Hey guys I really have a conflict problem!
I have a website with 9 pages and each page (movieclip) i call it frame1 to frame9 anyway in the frame4 (page4) I have loadmovie action which is loading another page with 4 buttons inside the problem is when I go to page 4 and play it and get back to any other page the movieclip (page4) doesn’t reset again to its original state.
How I can do that with very simple code.

Help please

Help, Add Video To Button / Movie Clip Over State
How can I add a few seconds of video into the over frame/state of a button?

Visit http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/rescueme/#/home/ to see the example of video that animates when I mouse over the the red boxes Exclusive Video, About The Show, and Cast & Crew.

Duplicating A Hit State For A Movie Clip Button
Hi everyone,
I'm currently using movie clips as buttons and was wondering the best way to create a hit state, like what is found on button symbols. The movie clip images I'm using are png's with alphas, so I don't want the entire thing clickable. They need to remain movie clips, because they are animating at different points during the movie.

Thanks in advance.

Movie Clip Animation Not Finishing In Button State
I'm sure this question has been asked dozens of times, but the search feature of the board isn't working right now, and I don't feel like sifting through hundreds of posts...

If there's already an explanation on this board, please just point me to it. Otherwise:

How do I get a button state's movie clip animation to play and finish its animation when you click the button?

If the answer is "move the movie clip outside the button", then could you please explain a little further? Do I put it on the main stage? If so, does it matter which frame?

Movie Clip As A Button: Can't Get My Extra State To Work.
*EDIT: Resolved with solution posted at end, however, the problem was not AS related as I thought. I'll encourage this to be moved to the appropriate forum then.

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Version 7.2

Okay, I'll try to explain this the best I can. I'm trying to use a movie clip as a button with 4 states, 3 of which are standard, as shown below:

The first frame contains a regular stop(); action.
The last frame contains a stop(); action as well, as I want the clip to stop after this tween.

For the movie clip in the document, I'm using the following ActionScript:
code:
on (release)
{
gotoAndPlay("slash");
}

According to the materials I have with me, this is supposed to play the movie clip starting at the "slash" frame (as opposed to the main timeline).

The problem I'm having though is that the tween is only playing to frame 17 of the movie clip, and then it goes blank, as if it's already played.

I've got a FLA linked below, just be warned it's pretty primitive. I'm actually trying to get something like this working so when I create my battle system for a game I plan to make, I don't have to insert frames for these tweens on every new enemy - I can just use the same button over and over, and apply the proper battle equations to it on(release).

FLA: http://atlas.walagata.com/w/naojason...stemengine.fla

First Post... Text Anim/movie Clip On Btn Over State
*Just born into AS 2.0**Flash MX 2004 Pro* I've searched the forums and I think I've come close to the answer. -2 part question- I have a MC on the over state of a BTN... (control enter to test movie) I place my cursor over the BTN and the MC plays (alright). Problem 1) If I move the cursor off the BTN prematurely the MC instantly jumps back to the start without finishing the animation (text motion tween) I've tried and tried but don't know what to do...

Second part which seems so obvious isn't so to me lol. I can not for the life of me get the .getURL to work?? I've tried it inside the BTN timeline, I've tried it in the movie clip timeline to no joy. No script errors it just doesn't do anything. The one time I did get it to work it processed the .getURL when I rolled the cursor over the animation (on a nav bar)... I want it to worke when clicked on. Any suggestions?

Thanks much in advanced. Will be glad to post .fla if needed.

Maintaining Over State On Button Within Movie Clip After Clicking
Hey Guys,

This is frustrating me and its prob so simple and is a tiny thing but is required for userbility.

I have a slide show with next and previous buttons, when a button is clicked i need it to remain in the over state so that the user has the ability to continuosly click through all the slides without having to move the cursor to regain the over state.

At the moment after the click event the button returns to the up state even though the cursor is still over the button.

I have tried a gotoAndStop(2) statement on release of the button but it does not work.

Is this because the buttons are within a movie clip ? because when i test the movieclip on its own the buttons work the way i want but when i test it from the main timeline they do not.

Pleae help

Can I Assign A Child State To A Movie Clip That Is Already Placed On Stage
Hello

Is it possible to add a child state to a movie clip that is already placed on stage,
i need to do this so i can move the movieclip to the top of the display list.

thanks for the help
mt

Movie Clip Button Up-state, Stay Up Until Clicked On Other Btn
hey everyone,

hey does anyone no where any tutorials that highlight how to keep a Movieclip Btn 'Over State' to stay in the over position until another button is clicked?

[CS3] Drop Down Back To Inital State Inside Movie Clip - U.S. Map
Hello all,

My Case:
I have a US Map and several states are clickable, when you rollover a state it changes from yellow to red (this is a MC). When you click a state it stays red and a box 'drops down' from it with a body text explaining something about it (this is another separate MC). The box can be close in two ways: 1. By clicking on the state again. Or 2. By clicking on an X that the box has.

My problem:
I can't find a way to close the box via the X.

The Explanation:
The box with the text and the X are all a Movie Clip, this MC is activated by clicking on the state on the main Time Line, but I don't know how to make the X close the MC it's contained in (the drop down box). I can close the box from outside (main Time Line) by clicking the state though.

Does that make sense?

You have to consider that the X ' wouldn't ' know when the box is contained in is either open or closed... which is actually the piece of ActionScript that I need.

The code I'm using:
This is the code I'm using on the state to open and close the box containing the explanatory text, and the closing X of course:

Code:
on (release) {
if (Number(test) == 1) {
test = 0;
} else {
test = 1;
}
}
My problem:
As I mentioned, I don't know how to use the above code and use it inside a MC to make the box close itself if it's open... the X to close the box can only be seen when the box is open or has dropped down.

Can anyone give me a hand please?

Download the FLA:
To understand better my problem you can download the original file from here: http://www.ricardozea.net/map/map.zip

Thank you!

Active Button State/3 State Buttons
http://www.thecodebehind.com/code/flash ... state.aspx

Does anybody know anything about implmenting the above - but via an external class (.as) file?

I'm still learning, and so it's a bit much to wrap my brain around...

Movie Clip Buttons Nested Inside Movie Clip Dont Work
Hi people!
im having a problem here.

in my first frame i have a movie clip named "menu_mc".
i have this AS for this movie:

Code:
this.menu_mc.onRollOver = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndPlay(8);
}
this.menu_mc.onRollOut = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndStop(7);
}

thats working ok, the menu_mc plays on rollover from frame 8 till frame 12 where stops.
On frame 12 (this is inside the menu_mc movie clip) i have another movie clip, named button1_mc.
and also i have AS controling that MC:

Code:
this.button1_mc.onRelease = function() {
getURL("index.htm", "_self");
}

The problem is that when i rollOver on menu_mc it work fine and the button1 appears, the problem is when i try to click button1...
doesnt work.

the swf you can see it on www.wt.com.mx/menu.swf
can anybody help me please?
what im doing wrong?
or what other ideas can you give me so i can make that work.

thanks!

Controlling The Playhead In A Movie Clip Via Buttons In Another Movie Clip
Alright, first off, I've tried literally everything I can think of, and all of the scripting looks perfect (from what I understand), so I can't think of what could possibly be wrong with the script.

Here's some information upfront about where these movie clips are located:

Main Timeline > tv_mc
Main Timeline > menu > menu2 (buttons controlling tv_mc are located here)

(Note: menu2 is a graphic, not a movie clip. It was only made so that I could move the menu itself without tweening several layers.)

Here's what I want to accomplish:
I want the buttons inside of menu2 to control the playhead in tv_mc, a movie clip. The first 25 frames of tv_mc are just the "stage" moving into view so that the information can be displayed.

There are five buttons in menu2 containing the following script:

Code:
on (release, releaseOutside) {
if (!mainwindow) {
_level0.tv_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);
mainwindow=1;
_level0.tv_mc.set(framenext, bio);
} else if (mainwindow==1) {
_level0.tv_mc.gotoAndStop(bio);
}
}

"bio" is the name of the frame in tv_mc. Basically, what I want this to do is check and see if the "stage" is already viewable, and if it isn't, to display the stage and then display the information as well, which is the purpose of storing the frame name in "framenext".

tv_mc also has this code:

Code:
if (!framenext) {
stop();
} else {
gotoAndStop(framenext);
}

At the moment, the menu buttons work to display tv_mc, but wont move the playhead past 25. I'm guessing that the "framenext" variable is somehow not getting any information, or not getting any information across to tv_mc from menu2.

I'm really effing lost at this point. Any help at all? I'd post the .fla, but the size is pretty big. :T

Movie Clip Buttons Wont Operate Movie Clip
I've created a set of movie clip buttons which change colour when clicked for ease of navigation, They work fine but they do not load the seperate swf file when using this code:

_root.but1.onRelease = function()
{
_root.loading.loadMovie("availablemenue.swf");

}

Any ideas where im going wrong?

Buttons In One Movie Clip Controling Main Clip
I have a movie. In the center on the movie there are a set of four buttons. Instead of the hassle of making 5 or 6 extra layers on the main movie, I made them on their own clip. Now, if I press a button on that clip, can I make a play action work for the main clip? It seems to just make the buttons play again.

When it plays the button clip goes away and a tween moves the background around to the next step. The button sets a variable which determines which movie is loaded thereafter.

Thanks ahead of time! :^)

Movie Clip Within Button - How Do You Disable Down State Of Button?
Hi - I have created a menu down the side of my flash site which is in the form of a button so that when the user rolls over the button, it brings up the menu. Within, this button is just text - the names for each page the user can select to go to (text is within movie clips so I can add actionscript to them).

However, I want to add on (press) {gotoAndPlay("home",1); } etc for each movie clip within this button but when i test the site, this code does not work as the buttons down state has priority over the movie clips within it.

Is there some actionscript code which could disable the down state of a button? (as i only need the button as a rollover anyway and i need the movie clips within the button to have priority in terms of actionscript for linkage etc)

Thanks

Movie Clip As Button - "Hit" State - Please Help
Hello,

I have a movie clip I am trying to use as a button.

My onRollOver and onRollOut animations are working just fine.

I can not get the movie clip to goto to my next scene (button link) when it is clicked:

this.button_mc.onRelease = function () {
button_mc.gotoAndPlay("_down");
}

where fram label "_down" on the movie clip timeline then has actionscript:

gotoAndPlay("new_scene", 1);

I see it goes to the _down frame label in my program but it NEVER executes the gotAndPlay. I have no idea why?

Thanks a lot, Brian

Targetting 'Hit' State On Buttons/immediately Disabling Buttons
Hi,

I have a button which, when clicked on, is set to disable itself. However, when it's clicked, the mouse is obviously still over the button and so the 'Over' state is shown - which implies that the button is still active. I don't want this - I want the button to be completely disabled as soon as it is clicked. If I move the mouse away from the button then it becomes completely disabled.

See here:

http://www.russellgillman.co.uk/testmenu.swf

When you hover over the buttons the text becomes yellow. When I click on a button, the green block moves to the selected button and the button is disabled, and yet the text remains yellow. I want it to become white immediately.

Code on the button:

Code:
on (release) {
services_btn.enabled = false;
getURL("www.site.com", "mainFrame");
slider.xMove = services_btn._x;
about_btn.enabled = true;
rates_btn.enabled = true;
rental_btn.enabled = true;
sales_btn.enabled = true;
coverage_btn.enabled = true;
contact_btn.enabled = true;
}
What I'd like to do is to target a specific frame in the button - eg:

services_btn.gotoAndStop("Hit");

but this doesn't work.

Can some help please!? Thanks...

Buttons Within Movie Clip, Within A Movie Clip Not Working Right
My buttons are in a movieclip, within a movieclip... which might be my problem to start off with, if this is the case please let me know.

But what my buttons are set to do is skip to the next or previous frame like a picture gallery. They do that right, but my problem is with them functioning properly after they go to the next or previous frame. I have to move the mouse for the button to work right again, I can not just hold the mouse in the same location on the button and click over and over to proceed through the timeline. Although if I click several times kinda fast it will work.

Doesnt make any sense to me... Please help.

Main Movie With Buttons Link To Movie Clip
Basically, in Scene 1 (my only scene), I have buttons that call certain parts of a movie clip.

I've pulled the movie clip into the scene where I want it, and named the instance.

The movie clip has different things happening along the time line that relate to the different buttons. Each one has a stop action, as needed.

I placed the action of onrelease, tell target for each button to go and play the correct scene. Which it does - the first time. If the user hits one button, it goes to the right frame of the movie clip, etc, but if you hit the same button twice, then it jumps to a different button's place.

If there are only two buttons, it keeps switching back and forth.

If there are more than two buttons, only the last button is the messed up one - and if you hit it twice in a row, it goes back to the first button's frame of the movie clip.

Make sense? Any ideas of how to stop this. I even followed an example of this in a book EXACTLY and I get the same problem.

Thanks.

Buttons In Movie Clip :0(
I have a few buttons in a movie clip, the buttons go from 0% alpha to 100% when the scene is played. The problem is, that the buttons won't work!! I've assigned actions to them in the movie clip but they don't show up on the timeline in the clip... it's just a simple action like this ... on release goto scene1 then the frame lable..... why can't i get the buttons to work when they're in a movie clip???

Buttons Within A Movie Clip?
I tried to place buton within a movie clip but when I go to test the scene. the mouse pointer won`t highlight it, thus I cannot click it. Any ideas?

Buttons In A Movie Clip?
I have constructed a panoramic slider movie clip that scrolls using left and right buttons. The movie is masked so that only the slider content is visible.

Inside the movie clip is a motion tweened selection of buttons.

When testing the movie... the slider works and the content scrolls. The individual buttons within the movie clip scroll and can be edited from the libary to change onMouseover, however, the buttons can not be made to do anything?

All actionScript relating to a buttons state in the frames panel is greyed out!

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be apprieciated.

Visit: http://www.iamgringo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk to see an example of what I mean.

Thanx.....

Buttons In A Movie Clip?
I have constructed a scrolling movie clip that scrolls using left and right buttons. The movie is masked so that only the slider content is visible.

Inside the movie clip is a motion tweened selection of buttons.

When testing the movie... the slider works and the content scrolls. The individual buttons within the movie clip scroll and can be edited from the libary to change onMouseover, however, the buttons can not be made to do anything?

All actionScript relating to a buttons state in the frames panel is greyed out!

I want to make the buttons link to an external url when clicked.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be apprieciated.

Visit: http://www.iamgringo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk to see an example of what I mean.

Thanx.....

Buttons In Movie Clip
How do we make buttons in a movie clip to interact with the main timeline?

Movie Clip Buttons
hi,

I have a movieclip, which moves depending on the mouse position, is there anyway of making this *only* happen when the cursor is actually over the movieclip, and not just as it is on the main stage? and also I have a series of buttons within a layer on the movieclip, to skip to another scene, but only 2 of them seem to work... they are all excatly the same command, apart from the scene name.. but they dont seem to work...

Nav Buttons In Movie Clip
Hi, hope someone out there can help me, using Flash MX, I have created a simple movie to act as a 'pop-up' menu in my presentation (basically a rectangle appears with two nav buttons which can be clicked on) I seem to have a problem geeting the action to link the player out of the movie clip and into the main timeline when a button is clicked on...

Really appreciate any help out there,

Thanks for your time, can email me at al@insideambient.com

Buttons In A Movie Clip
i have my navigational buttons inside a movie clip and when i add a script to each button to go to a certain frame, it will not do anything. is there something different you have to do when there are buttons in movie clips? thanks.

Buttons In A Movie Clip
I have made a MC that holds my 4 buttons. The 4 buttons point to 4 scenes. I made each of the scenes with 1 frame only and a stop action in each. The buttons float down to their position. I put my Button MC in the same position in each scene.

Within the MC I labeled 3 of the buttons with a GoToandPlay and the frame label and frame 1. At the beginning of the tween for the button on the Main scene, I put a GoToandPlay with the frame label and pointing to the last frame of the tween. The last frame has the label HomeEnd and a GoToandStop and frame 1.

The buttons float down all right but when I click on them, they don't go to the intended scene, but just float down again.

Any suggestions...I have tried everything I can think of.
THanks!