Flash :: RollOver Hover Timing Issue

Wierd Timing Issue....
Okay guys, here's what I'm doing. In part one I'm parsing the XML data and the pushing all of the text data into arrays, dynamically.

Using a "for" loop I'm using the attachMovie to generate and place buttons on the stage using the array.length property. So, basically what I want to do is to be able to click on one of the buttons(movieclip) and have it display in a text field. For some reason it's not displaying the text properly. If I write the following...

genreName_txt.text = genre_array[id];

it will not display the text in the text field and it will return "undefinded" when running a trace. But if I write

genreName_txt.text = genre_array[3];

for example, it displays the proper text in the text field.

Why can't I use the "genre_array[id]" to access text within the genre_array?

genreXML = new XML();
genre_array = new Array();
ginfo_array = new Array();
genreXML.ignoreWhite = true;
genreXML.load("Genrelist.xml");
genreXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
var rootNode = this.firstChild;
var children = rootNode.childNodes;
for (i=0; children[i]; i++) {
var Genre = children[i].attributes.genre;
var List = children[i].firstChild.nodeValue;
//trace ("Genre : "+Genre);
genre_array.push(Genre);
ginfo_array.push(List);
}
buildIt();
}
};

//-------Build Genre Buttons----------
function Buildit() {
for (i=1; i<=genre_array.length; i++) {
attachMovie("daButton_mc", "genre_mc"+i, i);
this["genre_mc"+i]._x = 95+(i-1)*10;
this["genre_mc"+i]._y = 498;
this["genre_mc"+i]._xscale = 60;
this["genre_mc"+i]._yscale = 90;
this["genre_mc"+i].id = i;
this["genre_mc"+i].onRollover = function() {
rollOver(this);
genreName_txt.text = genre_array[i];
};
this["genre_mc"+i].onRollOut = function() {
rollOut(this);
genreName_txt.text = "";
};
}
}

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Loadvars Timing Issue
i am writing a class called Game and in the constructor, i created a loadvars object that loads a series of strings into an array like so:

Code:
public function Game() {
//load the words into the arrays
test();
init();
}

private function test() {
trace("OMG");
}

private function init() {
trace("in init");
dictioLoader = new LoadVars();
dictioLoader.onLoad = function(success) {
fourLetters = this.four_letters.split('|');
fiveLetters = this.five_letters.split('|');
//_global.trace(fourLetters);
//_global.trace(fiveLetters);
test();
}

dictioLoader.load("words.php");
}
what prints out is:

OMG
in init

BUT, the question is..why isn't it calling the test() function when the thing is loaded? im really stumped here, so any help would be appreciated.

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Interval/timing Issue
We are having a problem with an interval/timing issue. (we think)

The idea is to click a button & attach and play two MCs at two set intervals. Movie1 should initially load and play without delay. Movie2 should load & play 7 secs later. At the same time we need to populate a dynamic text box with a number from 1-4 each time one of the movies loads until the text box count intervals up to 4 (1,2,3,4). The text box count should reset when it reaches 4. At the count of 4 we also need to populate another dynamic text box with a message string. This message remains throughout. The chart below lays out our goals a bit more clearlyâ€¦

1.Movie 1 loads & plays
textboxA = 1
5 sec elapses

2.Movie 2 loads & plays
textboxA = 2
7 sec elapses

3.Movie 1 loads & Plays
textboxA = 3
5 sec elapes

4.Movie2 Loads & Plays
textbox A= 4
7 sec elapes

5.textboxB = â€œmessageâ€

6.REPEAT PROCESS

7.Movie 1 loads & plays
textboxA = 1
5 sec elapses

8.Movie 2 loads & plays
textboxA = 2
7 sec elapses

9.Movie 1 loads & Plays
textboxA = 3
5 sec elapes

10.Movie2 Loads & Plays
textbox A= 4
7 sec elapes

11.textboxB = â€œmessageâ€

12.REPEAT PROCESS...

We are so lost! Any code suggestions would be a blessing.

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LoadVariables Timing Issue
Can I use the results of loading a variables file using loadVariables on the very next frame? Or do I need to build in a set number of frames delay before trying to use the variables being populated by the load statement?

Right now I am only giving one frame spacing from execution of the loadVariables and I try to use the variables on the next frame with sporadic results. Is next frame use overly optimistic? What is a good coding practice if there is a timing issue with using the results of loadVariables?

Here is script I am using...

quote:loadVariables("MyVars.txt", _root);

Thanks!

Bob

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Timing Or Syncing Issue
I have been working on a Flash movie that has a nine minute MP3 audio track that I am syncing or cueing graphics to appear when the audio reaches a certain point or phrase. The problem is, when offline, my Published movie seems to be accurate as far as the timing, but when I post it to my web server to test the movie, it is not matching correctly. This project is still in progress and I want to resolve this issue before I complete any more of the movie. Can anyone help? Here is a link to the uploaded movie...

LINK-
http://www.t2graphicdesign.com/merlin/

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Beginner Question - Hover/Rollover
I'd like to remove the HAND SIGN when the cursor hovers over a button. However, i'd like it to work this way:

I'd like to create a SYMBOL(NOT A BUTTON.) When your cursor hovers over that symbol then it plays another movie clip. When the cursor is off the symbol, then the movie clip disappears.

How to do this? Its very basic, I know, but I am very rusty on my flash skills.

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Flash To Javascript - Timing Issue?
I have a problem which I'm guessing is a timing issue.
I have a FMX2004 / FlashPlayer7 movie that is just a data store using a shared object. It is a 1px by 1px movie with no graphics, 1 frame only, just actionscript2 for reading and writing shared object data. The movie itself does nothing, it is "driven" by javascript, and acts back apon javascript via fscommands. The movie runs on a web page, but the web page runs locally (from a file:// reference) from a CD. There is no web server involved. My program basically does this:

1. Web Page loads
2. Javascript load even fires and finds movie object
3. Does a SetVariable and sends a command 'initialise' (as a string)
3a. Flash sees the variable change and performs a switch on the command name. An initialise command tells it to load an array from the shared object.
3b. Flash finishes loading the shared object data (usually several hundred K) and then serialises it into a string.
3c. Flash uses a FSCommand to send the string back to javascript.
4. Javascript does a switch on the fscommand and data to deterrmine and deserialises the data back into a javascript array
5. A callback function is called by javascript to tell it it is ok to continue processing.
n. After user input or other events, flash may again be notified using SetVariable about other commands or be sent data to be saved. It uses the same javascript callback method via FSCommands to notify javascript that it is finished processing / saving.

This round robin processing seems to work fine most of the time, but tends to fail when the machine is under load (such as many tasks running or intensive cpu operations). Interestinly, the process seems to work fine regardless of the overall speed of the machine it runs on (tried old 700mhz celerons with low ram, 2.8ghz p4's with lots of ram, mid range machines) and unless the cpu is actually under load, it performs properly. Once you put extra cpu load on the machine, it is as if the flash movie doesn't finish loading the data from the shared object before it internally continues and does it's fscommand call. I'm guessing that the extra cpu load causes the bit of the flash player that can access external data from shared objects to perform slower than the execution of the actionscript that asked for it - but that's just my theory. I don't know enough about how a movie executes to verify this.

Can someone explain in glorious techincal detail the execution path of a movie so I can rule in or out my suspicions about cpu load affecting the shared object load time, and also let me know if the process I'm doing here is appropriate or if there's a better method of talking bidirectionally from javascript to a flash movie.

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Class Initialization Timing Issue
I have what I think is a timing issue in the initialization of my classes. I have a main movie that loads in a few child movies. One of these is the communications file that handles all the communications with the server. The others are different UI elements. One of the UI swfs contains instances of a class I've created called "ScrollingTextField", which is basically an extension of the MovieClip class that will scroll the text if the text is too long for the field. This works great most of the time. However, I've run into a few occasions where NONE of the instances of the ScrollingTextField class work at all. The text doesn't even get displayed. All I have are blank lines. I think this is caused by the fact that, due to odd timing differences, sometimes I try to write to the ScrollingTextField instance before the class is fully initialized. I've tried to put "import" lines in the movie before anything else happens, but that hasn't helped. The part that confuses me the most is that when this happens, it never recovers. It seems as if trying to write to a method of a class when that class doesn't fully exist yet forever breaks any instances of that class.

Has anyone seen this before or are there simple ways around this that have eluded me? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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MouseEvent.CLICK Timing Issue
Here is my eventhandler:

function MoveItem(Event:MouseEvent):void
{
if (Event.target.alpha == 1)
{
trace("Event.target.alpha = 1");
Event.target.alpha = .5;
}
if (Event.target.alpha == .5)
{
trace("Event.target.alpha = .5");
Event.target.alpha = 1;
}
}

A single click triggers both trace statements. I was hoping to make it a toggle functionality. What did I do wrong?

Thanks,
T

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[CS3] AS 2.0: Hover/Rollover Tooltip From External Swf MovieClip
I would like to create a dynamic tooltip with an external SWF MovieClip. I am getting the tooltip box to show up on rollover and to dissapear on rollout, but I cannot pass the text variables to show up.

Please help.

This is what I have.

Main Movie Clip with AS 2.0 has the following script, it basically triggers the creation of the rollover tooltip when rolling over an specific instance of a movieclip named room_mc:

Code:
room_mc.onRollOver = function () {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
_root.container_mc.loadMovie("popup_as2.swf");
_root.container_mc.label1.text = "Text to be displayed on Dynamic Text Box with instance name label1 inside the popup_as2.swf";
_root.container_mc.label2.text = "Text to be displayed on Dynamic Text Box with instance name label2 inside the popup_as2.swf";
_root.onMouseMove = function(){
_root.container_mc._x = _xmouse ;
_root.container_mc._y = _ymouse ;
}
}

room_mc.onRollOut = function () {
removeMovieClip("container_mc");
}
And the popup_as2.swf document has basically two dynamic text boxes, which I have named their instances as: label1 and label2

I have run the movie and I just receive the following text on label1 and label2 on the rollover container_mc:

Code:
_level0.container_mc.label1
_level0.container_mc.label2
I have tried replacing this on my code above but no use, it still does not work. Am I missing something?

I am attaching the documents.

I will appreciate your help with helping me solve this matter. Thank you.

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Is it possible to trigger an event on a hover of a textfield?

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Flash In Looping Powerpoint -timing Issue
I have inserted a flash swf into a looping powerpoint presentation. I want the swf to play from the beginning everytime that slide comes up. I can't seem to get the timing down.

Powerpoints "advance to the next slide timer" is not syncing with my length of the swf file.

I tired inserting a goto and stop (1) at the end of my swf, then have ppt but that doesn't seem to stop powerpoint from looping the presentation. If I don't turn looping on in powerpoint, it will only play the swf one, and when the slide comes around again it is static.

I can't seem to get the timing right. Any suggestions?

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Flash Button Rollover/Hover Not Working Immediatly
http://www.ekolinemedia.com/portfolio.htm

Here is the problem: In Opera and IE7, when you hover/rollover over a link you do not get my button animation immediatly. Instead you have to click on the button, and then when you hover over the button you get an animation

IE6 and FF allow the user to play the hover animation immediatly.

I think it is because the user has to allow the "control" to be activated. I am not sure how to fix this though.

Any help would be much appreciated!

First frame:

Code:
if(_root.getBytesLoaded()==_root.getBytesTotal()){
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
else{
gotoandplay(1);
}
Last frame:

Code:
stop();

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[cs3] CacheAsBitmap Problem With External Loading (not A Timing Issue)
Hi

I'm creating a DOM based xhtml site with some flash elements, and have run into some issues. I've several times thought about going to this forum for help
but I always convinced myself that the answers were out there on the internet, and most of the times they were. But now I've searched for days without any real progress, so here I am.

I've created an swf file which loads up a bunch of external jpg's, places them inside my main (empty) movieclip and applies a number of movieclip prototypes to the new clips (and the main movie itself).
Basacly, the structure looks like this:

SWF
|
main clip ("huvudfilm")
|
clip 1("film1")- clip 2("film2") - clip 3("film3") - ...

And so on, where one clip is created per jpg in the folder of the SWF. Ok, so far, so good, but here's the issue:

I want the main movieclip to be masked by an external alpha mask so that it gets a nice transition thingy. The external mask loads like this:

Code:
var maskfilm:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("maskfilm_aux",100);
var loadListener:Object = new Object();
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

loadListener.onLoadInit = function(){
huvudfilm._visible = true;
maskfilm.cacheAsBitmap = true;
huvudfilm.cacheAsBitmap = true; <---- PROBLEM
huvudfilm.setMask(maskfilm);
}
mcLoader.addListener(loadListener);
mcLoader.loadClip("mask.swf", maskfilm);

The problem is that the cacheAsBitmap for the main clip doesn't seem to work. If I remove that line the mask get applied fine, except that there is no alpha transition. The mask is either applied 100%, or nothing at all. the whole transition thing doesn't work. Sorry if I'm being a bit diffuse here but I'm sure you get the picture if you know what cacheAsBitmap does to masks.

I've read some adobe documentation about masking problems but I don't really know what to do. My guess is that you can't cache something as a bitmap if the clip only contain externaly loaded/created clips. Because the same code(caching) worked when I didn't load the jpg's externally, but had them "manually" in the subclips. (meaning as objects in the library and then putting them into the clips)

I've tested online and offline, caching the subclips instead of the main one, and a bunch of other things that I can't remember know.

I would greatly appreciate any help on this matter, as I'm kinda over my head here. If you wanna know how the jpg's are loaded, here's the code:

Code:
MovieClip.prototype.menyfilmloader = function(target, _number:Number){

var _this:MovieClip = this;
var loadListener:Object = new Object();
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

loadListener.onLoadStart = function(){
testImage();
}
loadListener.onLoadError = function(){
Counter--;
}
mcLoader.addListener(loadListener);
mcLoader.loadClip(target,_this);
};

testImage = function (){
Counter++;
huvudfilm.createEmptyMovieClip("film"+Counter, 194 + Counter);
huvudfilm["film"+Counter].menyfilmloader(Counter + ".jpg", Counter);
};
testImage();

Okay that's issue number 1. My second question is;

Is there a way to use site relative paths in actionscript URL methods? I know you can put "../" before the path to go up one level, but is there a similar way to
Code:
href="/folder/content.as"

I'm guessing the answer here is no because flash is a "user-side" application, but is there any way to work around it?

The thing is I need to load a bunch of external as files from swfs on different levels on my page. And with the "../" way, I would need a different amount of dots in different swfs, and that's not possible, since the external as file needs to be the same.

That about wrappes it up, sorry about all the swedish names in the code.

Thanks in advance,
Leo

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Dynamic Hover Text Issue
i've been struggling with learning flash, so pardon in advance for my lack of skills.

i've been deconstructing the 'hover captions' tutorial as a reference for those of you who have seen it.

i've actionscripted a movieclip circle which i treat as a button for rollover effects. i've authored on the stage a rectangle on the stage, then deleted and used the attachmovie() method to set it on a differing depth. i also created a movieclip 'inside' the rectangle which i attached scripts to control the visiblity of the rectangle, which appears when the mouse rollover of the movieclip button occurs. i've built a dynamic text field on that 'rectholder' movie clip and referenced some scripting on the main layer to control the text's appearance.

everything works great except for getting the dynamic text to display. if i go back in and change the dynamic text field to static, the text displays fine... however, moving to dynamic text... no go. this is my final hurdle.

can anyone give this a shot and shed some light? much thanks in advance... i'm attaching my FLA file.. i use flash mx 2004.
j.

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Strange Hover Caption Issue
I'm working on an interactive cd and i am having some issues implementing a hover caption over an infinite menu.

Before the hover caption, the buttons on the menu would load html in another frame. Once i made a simple hover caption for the mildly computer-retarded users who will be using it, the links do not work anymore. I made sure that the "+" is outside of the text box, it's driving me nuts!

Anybody with any ideas on what i can do to fix this please let me know, I appreciate your help in advance.

Link to .swf: http://home.cogeco.ca/~jjonah/sponsorbarhovertest.swf

Link to .fla: http://home.cogeco.ca/~jjonah/sponsorbarcovertest.fla

Josh Jonah
www.DefectiveProduction.tk

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Dynamic Text CSS Hover Issue
wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem. i'm importing dynamic text from an xml file into a text field with fonts rendered as "anti-alias for readability". i have css styles for the link hovers. works great, problem is that when i view in the browser the linked text is slightly overlapping the word before it. once you hover over it though, it fixes itself and has a space between itself and the word before it.

the only thing i've found that solves this problem is switching the font render to "anti-alias for animation", only that makes the font i'm using look horrible (Zurich Cn BT).

anyone else ever get this issue and find a solution to it? :eek

thanks for any help!

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[timing] Function Timing - Delay In Script
Hi all,

Back again to find help provided by helpfull flashers

Right now i have the following script

PHP Code:

var speed = 20;
MovieClip.prototype.slideIt = function(whereX) {
    this.onEnterFrame = function() {
        this._x += (whereX-this._x)/speed;
        if (Math.abs(this._x-whereX)<1) {
            this._x = whereX;
            delete this.onEnterFrame;
        }
    };
};

green.onRollOver = function() {
    blue.slideIt(520);
    red.slideIt(550);
};
green.onRollOut = function() {
    blue.slideIt(193);
    red.slideIt(386);
};

What i want to do is pretty simple, i want the onRollOver to be delayed for a few seconds before it runs the slideIt script.

I searched on kirupa for similar actions and found this

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47450

but how can i implement this in my own script ? tried a few things but all it does is either nothing or even more nothing ...

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I have a question.....when I am working in flash MX and I am modifying a purchased flash site I did some changes to it and it works well.
I added music and modified the thest animations to go with the music and all looks well but when I publish it and see it on the web it is all out of sync????
Why does the syncronization change from my working movie to my published movie ????

Now I also did some more editing to my movie / web and on when I am in FLASH MX all works well and looks good but when I save as a movie and view it as the .swf file all the text animations are gone ????
But it looks fine while in the actual flash program.......

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Rollover Issue
I have a slight issue. Created 2 movie clips to control content.

They are exactly the same size and occupy the same space. I need both of them selectable.

The mc's are in different layers

The container of the MC's are square so they lay on top of each other

code to control clips
***************
stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){

if(rewind == true){

prevFrame();

}

}

this.onRollOver = function(){

rewind = false;
play();

}

this.onRollOut = function(){

rewind = true;

}
***********

example link
http://www.icanmarketyou.com/guys_wo...ontroller.html

Any ideas on how to make both tabs hot and keep the integrity of this design?

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RollOver Issue
I'm modding a template for a friend, the site is pgaloans.com

When you go to the first page or the last page, everything works fine. The menu also corresponds to the current page by having the button remaining highlighted. However this isn't working for pages 2 - 5, any idea why?

Code:
on (rollOver) {
if (_root.link<>4) {
this.gotoAndPlay("s1");
}
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
if (_root.link<>4) {
this.gotoAndPlay("s2");
}
}
on (release) {
if (_root.link<>4) {
_root["item"+_root.link].gotoAndPlay("s2");
_root.link = 4;
getURL("about.html");
}
}
The actionscript is the same for every button, except the get URL and the _root.link=4 do change to the appropriate url/number.

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Issue With Rollover
I want my buttons to show a movie clip on a rollover but only while its rolled over. I will then chance the text as the pointer goes over the other buttons but keep the movie clip consistant. I tried it and its just not working. this is my code and flash is telling me there is a syntax eroor

dee.onRollOver = over;
dee.onRollOut = out;

function over() {
dee._visible = true;
dee._x = 15.6 and dee._y = 72.8
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

function out() {
dee._visible = false;
dee._x = 15.6 and dee._y = 72.8
this.gotoAndPlay(7);
}

this is what flash is telling me

**Error** Symbol=button, layer=Layer 15, frame=1:Line 6: Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.
dee._x = 15.6 and dee._y = 72.8

**Error** Symbol=button, layer=Layer 15, frame=1:Line 12: Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.
dee._x = 15.6 and dee._y = 72.8

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2

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Buttons Rollover Issue
i've noticed that a common problem with using Button.onRollOver/Button.onRollOut is that if you roll out too quickly, the onRollOut effect does not trigger. for exemple, on an expanding menu element, if you move the mouse across it very quickly the submenu expands but doesn't contract. i'm guessing this is something to do with the framerate - if two events happen in the same frame, only the first occurs? perhaps someone can tell me if that's the case?

i'm looking for a solution to the problem. my first thought is to use onEnterFrame to check if the mouse is within the x/y coordinates of the button/clip. that way, even if the movie does not detect the mouse rolling off in the first frame it happens, it will get it next frame. am i thinking in the right direction, or is there a better solution?

thanks in advance for any help!

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Rollover Button Issue
ok so i have 5 buttons, when i roll the mouse over them i would like to have a text box change content saying what each button is. admin, home, about, contact, projects.

anywho i have this setup

admin.onRollOver = function(){
buttonName.text = "admin";
}
home.onRollOver = function(){
buttonName.text = "home";
}
etc...

now nothign is happening, the text box's name is buttonName, and it is a dynamic text box

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Hi , i need some help with a rollover button i made using this code.
stop();

catreApicultura_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROL L_OVER, rolover);
catreApicultura_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROL L_OUT, rollout);
catreApicultura_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLI CK, gonext);

function rolover(event:MouseEvent):void {
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rewind);
catreApicultura_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
//basically it plays an animation that is inside catreApicultura_mc until last frame where there is a stop();
}

function rollout(event:MouseEvent):void {
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rewind);

}
function rewind(event:Event):void {
catreApicultura_mc.prevFrame();
}

function gonext(event) {
gotoAndStop(2);
}

The problem is, when i get to frame 2 of the file (using the button) i get this output error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Apicultura_fla::MainTimeline/rewind()

Edit: I forgot to mention the button in the next frame does no exist and i do not want it to exist there.
Is there a way to fix this? or is my code wrong? Please help. Thank you

Here is the .FLA for the RollOver button.

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On(rollOver) And On(rollOut) Issue
Hello all,

I am having a bit of a frustrating problem with a button state. I have a button with the following code:

Code:
on(rollOver) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
}
on(rollOut) {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
then on Frame (2) I have only:

Code:
on(rollOut){
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
Everything works really nicely except when I mouse through the button very quickly, and it stays on the rollOver state, or Frame 2.

I have tried to use the Hittest function, however, on Frame 2 another button shows up on top of the original (an X so that the original button can be closed, like closing a pop-up window in XP) and when you are over it, the hittest fails, making the MC go back to Frame (1).

Basically what I am doing is creating a room with various furniture. Maybe you place a couple desks in the room, but then you decide you want to get rid of one. I want to enable the user to rollOver the desk, see the red X button appear, and click it to remove that specific desk.

Does anyone know a quick fix to this? Any help is greatly appreciated. The Fla is attached.

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I want to make a MC play when someone rolls over a button. The Button is
a logo and I want part of the logo to spin on rollover so the MC is in
the same spot as the button.

I tried to do this the most basic way possible, so I created a graphic
for the logo, I dragged it into a new symbol of a MC and animated it and
then I made a button and dragged the graphic into all of the states
expect the over state, and I placed the MC on the over state so it plays
this on rollover. I then positioned everything so it is on the same X
and Y coordinates.

However, when I test the movie when it is on the stage, it works though,
but the rollover (the MC) moves to a different location when the button
is rolled over?

Why is it doing this????

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Hi guys,

I have a question. In an animation I am working on, I have a menu which I load via an xml file.

The problem I have is that when I move the mouse away or I click on a link in the submenu, it does not clear itself and stays on active. How can I make this work?

When I add clear_child(inview); to function menuchild_init, that removes the links in the submenu when it's clicked, but the background of the submenu remains active and on top of the animation.

What changes to the function are needed to remove the background too?

The script is below:

Attach Code

inview=0;
function menuitem_init(i,label, action) {
item=menuitem.duplicateMovieClip("menuitem" add i,i);
item.label=label;
item._x=10;
item._y=(10+(28*i));

_root.item.button.onRelease = function (){
if (action<>""){
loadMovie(action, "load");
}
}

_root.item.button.onRollOver = function (){
_level0.prova="ciao" add action;
i_temp=this._target.substring(9,10);
if (_root.inview==0) {
_root.inview=i_temp;
} else {
clear_child(inview);
_root.inview=i_temp;
}

for (var j = 0; j<_root.node[i_temp-1].childNodes.length; j++) {
target_temp="_root.menuchild" add i_temp add j;
setProperty(target_temp,_x,140);
setProperty(target_temp,_y,(10+(i_temp*28)+j*28));
setProperty(target_temp,_visible,true);
}

_root.selected_menu.bg_child._height=j*28;
_root.selected_menu._y=10+(i_temp*28);
}
}

function clear_child(inview){
for (var j = 0; j<_root.node[inview-1].childNodes.length; j++) {
setProperty("_root.menuchild" add inview add j,_visible,false);
}
}

function menuchild_init(i,j,label, action) {
item=menuchild.duplicateMovieClip("menuchild" add i add j,i add j);
item.label=label;
item._visible=false;
_root.item.button.onRelease = function() {
if (action.lastIndexOf("http://")>-1 or action.lastIndexOf("mailto")>-1) {
getURL(action,"_blank","post");
} else {
loadMovie(action, "load");
}
}
}

menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.load("menu_structure.xml");
menu_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
_root.root = menu_xml.firstChild;
_root.node = _root.root.childNodes;

for (var i = 1; i <= _root.node.length; i++) {
menuitem_init(i,_root.node[i-1].attributes.name, _root.node[i-1].attributes.action);

for (var j = 0; j<_root.node[i-1].childNodes.length; j++) {
menuchild_init(i,j,_root.node[i-1].childNodes[j].attributes.name, _root.node[i-1].childNodes[j].attributes.action);
}
}
}
}

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