Flash :: Text On Mouse Rollover Of Button

Button(rollOver) Makes Movieclip Follow Mouse
The title basically explains it.

I have 2 movieclips.

One is base (border)- on rollover, Pop is supposed to follow the mouse

The other pops up when rolling over border (Pop)- _alpha is set to 0 when rolled out of border

Border Actions:

ActionScript Code:
on(rollOver){
_root.Pop._alpha=100;
_root.Pop._x = _xmouse;
_root.Pop._y = _ymouse;
updateAfterEvent();
}
on(rollOut){
_root.Pop._alpha=0
}

My question: How do i have Pop follow the mouse, on(rollOver) of border?

Scroll The Text While Mouse Rollover
i am currently trying to make a simple scroll bar and this is my code to control the text:

on (press, release) {
so1.so2.so3._y = so1.so2.so3._y-10;
}

the problem is the user have to click 100000 times to read the whole text if the message is really long.

how should i write it so when mouse rollover the button it scrolls down automatically? (p.s. on (rollover) does not work either i just tried it

Mouse Rollover Text Effect
Can anyone please tell me how to make a mouse rollover text bubble effect like the one used on this site (you know, like when you rollover a link it shows you text about it)?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much

Snake

Back Button Rollover Not Triggered If Mouse Hasn't Moved
Hi,

I have a strange flash problem that I can't find a solution for... obviously.

I have a movieclip that has 3 frames in it, it is a wizard-type movie.

On the first and second frame there are next buttons and on the second and third frame there are back buttons.

The next buttons and the back buttons are positioned in exactly the same place from frame to frame, so the mouse doesn't need to move to click back or next continuously.

The problem I am having is that if the mouse hasn't moved (at least 1 pixel) it is not registering the new button that appears below the cursor. So if you click on the back button in frame 3 you gotoAndStop on frame 2, there is a new back button displayed directly below the cursor. Clicking the mouse will not do anything. If you move the mouse 1 pixel it then sees the button and triggers the rollover event.

Is there an easy way to fix this problem that I'm missing? Is it common? Is there an actionscript hack that will solve it? Or should I just give up and tell the client that it's impossible and no one would want to use their stupid flash wizard anyway.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,

Bejs.

Zooming Mouse Rollover Text Effect....
I know that sounds weird, but I am having problems getting the action scripting to work...

What I want is sort of a mouse over wave effect, on a column of text. So beginning at the top of the column, when the mouse is rolled down over the column, it will move, alphaing and zooming up to make it bigger, and when the section is no longer touching the mouse, it will fade back down...Like a wave, I guess....

Any ideas?

Updating A Dynamic Text Field With A Mouse Rollover
This is driving me bananas.

I have a 3 frame movieclip that I borrowed from FK:

FRAME 1:
text="hi there";
max = length(text);
i = "1";

FRAME 2:
i = Number(i)+1;
screen = substring(text, 1, i);

FRAME 3:
if (Number(i)>Number(max)) {
stop();
} else {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

...on one layer. On another layer, across the 3 frames, is a dynamic text field, no instance name, and it's variable is set to 'screen' (right as it came from FlashKit).

The whole thing is housed in a movieclip instantiated on root as "typewriter". This, as expected, WORKS FINE.

But why doesn't this?

FRAME 1:
_root.popup.home.onRollOver=function(){text="HOME" };
_root.popup.gallery1.onRollOver=function(){text="G allery 1"};
max = length(text);
i = "1";

...FRAMEs 2 and 3 are the same as above.

"popup" is a movieclip instance on root, that houses buttons; "home" is a button instance within "popup".

I've tried every configuration I can imagine, nothing is working. What am I doing wrong...please?

Thanks as always,
Shawn

RollOver Action. I Need It To Stay In RollOver Mode When Mouse Is Off.
I have a movieclip with this action attached:

PHP Code:

on (rollOver) {
loadMovie("logo_intro.swf", "bottom_logo");
}

When I roll over it, it loads the movie correctly. Yet, How do I get the movie to stay once the mouse is off ite movieclip/button area?

Text On Button With Rollover
This is silly. I have done this many times, today it is not working.

I start with a box, make it into a raphic, make that into a button, double click the button, add keyframes to over click and hit, make a new layer, add keyframe to over, set text.

Only the parts of the button around the text are active, and not the area containing the text (the mouse pointer turns from an arrow to a vertical line when it passes over the text.

grr.

Button Rollover With Text
hi

I have a button that has text saying "Roll". Now when the mouse goes over the button its set to change the background colour, though if the mouse goes over the text the rollover does not work..rather a text selection icon shows

How can i stop this?

Rollover Button To Get Text Help
Sorry i am very newb at this, and i dont know where to look for an answer cos im not sure what im doing is called!

Anyway here it goes.. all i want to do is rollover a button or box and text comes up next to it! like sort of an information box, or a button and u roll over it and the link name comes up !

Can anyone help me with a link to a basic tutorial? or even name to what im doing...

Sorry for any hassles!

Button Rollover W/new Text
I dont know if this is a lame question but i have looked everywhere (seriously)
Anyway...I have thumbnails on my flash page that have been converted to buttons. I am trying to display a brief description about each picture(button) at the bottom of the page.
Yes i know i can do this in the hit/over/down stage thing, but i want to replace text already on the screen w/ new text.

currently the frame begins w/ "place cursor over image for a brief description"
so i want to replace that w/ new text each time the mouse rollsover and put it back when the the mouse is not on any of the images.

sorry for the length
& thanx in advance!
:-)

DYING Rollover Text FX Button PLEASE
Im new and I have MX and Swish. Im trying to have a word, like "Meetings" do a text fx on the rollover state, then when clicked, go to the MEetings page. Please help if you can, Ive been trying all day. Can a movie clip be a button.
Thanks.

Button Rollover- Same Tween But Different Text?
i have 4 buttons.
when i rollover the buttons, i want the text to move (tween).
each button has different text, however.
so do I need to create 4 different button MC's, or can I make the text dynamic, and change the text via actionscript?
If I did this, would I have to make an MC with just a dynamic text box?
I'm sort of confused.
wha'ts the best way to go about this?

thanks for any help!

Alternative Text On Button Rollover..
hi

Can anyone explain to me how to add "alternative text" (I think it's called...you know the text that appears when you do a mouse rollover on a button or link...)to a button in a flash movie?
Thanks

Kat

How Do I Make A Rollover Text Button
Hey Im tryin to make a rollover text button, and unfortunatly dont know how to do it....I could use some help.

Help Button Rollover Text Change
I know this is probably an easily solved problem, but I just need some assistance. I was curious how to have a variable change value when the mouse moved over a button. I've tried attaching an action to the movie clip in the button to say onRollOver variable = "value" but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Any chance of anyone helping me out on this one?

[MX04] Rollover Text Button
Ok, after getting a text button to work I'm now having problems with it's 'over' frame. i want the text to change colour when the mouse curser moves over it, so i changed the colour of the text in the 'over' frame in the buttons timeline. But the text only changes colour when the mouse curser is over the button's hit area not the text itself.

Any ideas?

Scroll Text When Rollover Button
Hello,

I'd like to be able to scroll text with just rolling over a button, rather than onPress. Changing onPress to onRollover doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions ?

Thanks

Hyperlink Within Rollover Text Of A Button
I have a button which on rollover reveals a textbox with some static text in it. I'm trying to get a sentence of that text to hyperlink to a website but the whole rollover flickers when I try to click on my hyperlinked text. I've tried just highlighting the text and using the static text hyperlink feature. And I've also tried just converting the text I need into it's own button with it's own on release, getURL function but both these methods result in a flicker. One more note is that my original button is linked to play another frame in the movie.
Thanks,
Frank

Scrolling Text Box In A Rollover Button?
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how i can make a text box scroll inside a button? I have a button that when you rollover opens a window with a text box, but as of now when i try to scroll the text the action does not register.

My AS is very simple to open the window:

on(rollOver){
gotoAndPlay("bar in");
}
on(rollOut){
gotoAndPlay("bar out");
}

Any suggestions would be great as i am not experienced in AS, Thanks..

I guess i have this code as a MC if that helps?

Rollover Text Button Is Finiky
I've created a button that holds text in the font futura.
There's a rollover action however it is only activated (and held) when the mouse is over the actual text, not in between.
Futura is a 'skinny' font so this is becoming an issue.

Is there a way in which I can make the hit area surround the entire text area of the button. I have a feeling I'm 'missing something' here.

Thanks.

PS...I can post the .fla if need be.

Distort Text And Make It A Rollover Button?
Hello,

I can't figure out if its possible to have make a text, distort it, and make it a rollover button.

(just an image)
but to have the text distort like that and turn it into a button

Any help is greatly appreciated

Disjoint Rollover On Button Reveals Text Elsewhere
I would like to have text appear at another location on the stage when a button is rolled over (without any rollover effect or link on the text that is revealed). When you click the button the scene you go to has the text static in the same location (a title). Flash help says make a "disjoint rollover" where the button Hit frame is located somewhere else. That's all I can find in help. Seems pretty simple, but I am confused. Any ideas? Thx.

Using Arrays To Output Text On Button Rollover
Hello guys,

How do I use arrays to output a line of text, somewhere on my flash site when I rollover a button in my navigation.

Button Problem - Rollover And Dynamic Text
Hi,
I'm trying to design a small keyboard interface for use with a touch screen.
I have a key template as a movie clip. Within this movie clip is a button (with Up, Over, Down and Hit states) as well as a dynamic text box. The dynamic text is set during runtime - this way I can have a selection of the keys all with different face values spread out like a keyboard.
The Action Script below allows me to track the user's desired words (or keypresses).

key_A.key_value.text = "A";

key_A.onPress = function ()
{
name_txt.text = name_txt.text + "A";
user_name = user_name + "A";
trace(user_name);
trace(user_name.length);
}

The key presses are stored within the string "user_name" and the text is output via trace or a text box (name_txt).
Problem - the button states (Up, Down, Hit, Over) work fine until I assign the Action Script to the key! The code above works fine but the button never shows any other state other than the UP state.

Any clues??

Invisible Button Rollover, Text Animation
Hi,

I am designing my website, I am good with flash and basic scripting, but I am running across my first big problem. I will try and lay it out as best as possible. I have the layout with the text, boxes and logos, I haven't animated any of those yet, I wanted to get the harder scripting first. So I have my rollover text menus, each menu is animated with an effect from after effects that makes the text glow, Couldn't replicate in Flash easily enough, if at all. I exported the animated text as .swf files and into flash as a movie clip. In the movie clip, the animation is 100 frames, I moved it over one frame to make it 101 frames so that the first frame isn't on my main scene with the first frame being the first frame of the animation. I called the movie clip instance "about_us" On my main scene, I have created an invisible button with over my text, and have the animated text in place, then I scripted the invisible button:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay.about_us(2);
}

In the animation, I want it to continue to loop as long as they are on the layer, and once they have rolloff I want it to stop, and if they click on the button, I want it to go to the scene About Us.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Please ask if you need clarification too.

Button(mc) Containing Externally Loaded Text, With Rollover
Hi,

My goal is to create a MC which behaves like a button. The button
contains a dynamic textbox which displays an externally loaded
text. On a mouseOver it should display (via a frame as) the assigned
mouseOver text.

I use this code:

Code:
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("pagina1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
link1.link01.text = this.link01;
link2.link02.text = this.link02;
};

link1.onRollOver = function() {
link1.link01Hover.text = this.link01Hover;
}

link1.onRollOut = function() {
link1.link01.text = this.link01;
}

link2.onRollOver = function() {
link2.link02Hover.text = this.link02Hover;
}

link2.onRollOut = function() {
link2.link02.text = this.link02;
}

stop();
When I test mc link01 in the movie, the textbox shows on a mouseOver:

_level0.link1.link01Hover

on a mouseOut:

_level0.link1.link01

It should be:
mouseOver
pagina01 1111111 hover link01!

mouseOut
pagina1 link01

Same goes for the other link.

I'm a bit stuck here. I want to make these buttons for a gallery
which has 260 images. The titels of these images are also
functioning as buttons.
The way these buttons are made should give me only work
in creating the text files. (hopefully it gives me less physical work )

Thank you in adv,

Baeshin

Rollover Button & Changing Text Field
Hi,

For my flash application i want a text field, when i roll over a button/movie clip text appears in the text field. When i roll off the button/movie clip the text in the text field disappears.

Has anyone got a tutorial or tip to create this using action scripting?

Cheers

Text On Flash Rollover Button - Problem
Hi there,

I'm creating a flash mx rollover button, and am also using text on the button (eg. "click here").

The button is fine, but when I publish it only the parts of the button around the text are active, and not the area containing the text (the mouse pointer turns from an arrow to a vertical line when it passes over the text).

Does anyone know how to fix this - surely I'm missing something really simple?

Thanks
Ginny

Change A Dynamic Text Box On Movie Or Button Rollover?
Another new task, This learning is infinate!

I would like to put a dynamic text box in my mc which will display different text depending on which button or mc you roll the mouse over.
I want to try and do this myself as much as possible (so i learn more)
I understand paths now but would like, pleeeease, someone to tell me which action/method to use?
I have named a dynamic text box 'content_text' and given it variable content.
I have buttons which are inside movieclips (they form part of a scrolling navigation)
My thoughts were to use onRollover action and
do i use setProperty?

also does onRollover have to be used on a button or can you use it on an mc?

Simple Text Button Rollover Workflow Question
what's the best workflow for creating simple text only buttons that change color when you roll over them.

i want to be able to throw a button on my stage w/all states in tact and simply change the text.

i can't seem to figure out how to do this without manually changing the hit states of each button.

thanks!

Text On Scripted Button Does Not Shows On Rollover An On Release
I've got this following scripts to create button through action script. However during onrollover/onrelease, the text (button name) is dissapear. Can someone give me a workaround. Thanks.
Here's the code:

Code:
depth = 1;

mouse_over_colour = 0xCCCCCC;
mouse_clicked_colour = 0x666666;
area_width = 200;

ButtonLabelText = new TextFormat();
ButtonLabelText.bold = false;
ButtonLabelText.color = 0x000000;
ButtonLabelText.font = "Verdana";
ButtonLabelText.size = 9;

main_menu = ['About', 'Work', 'Client', 'Contact', 'Consume'];
main_menu_action = ['work.swf', 'about.swf', 'store.swf', 'client.swf', 'contact.swf'];

for (i=0; i<main_menu.length; i++) {
main_menu_var = "main_menu_"+i;
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(main_menu_var, depth++);
_root[main_menu_var].createTextField("titleField", depth++, 0, -3, area_width, 15);
_root[main_menu_var].titleField.selectable = false;
_root[main_menu_var].titleField.setNewTextFormat(ButtonLabelText);
_root[main_menu_var].titleField.text = main_menu[i];
_root[main_menu_var]._y = i*15;
_root[main_menu_var].onRelease = function() {
_root[main_menu_var]["click_effect_"+i].removeMovieClip();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("click_effect_"+i, depth++);
with (this["click_effect_"+i]) {
beginFill(mouse_clicked_colour, 100);
lineStyle(0, mouse_clicked_colour, 100);
moveTo(0, 0);
lineTo(0, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 9);
lineTo(0, 9);
endFill();
}
trace(_root[main_menu_var]["click_effect_"+i]);
loadMovieNum(main_menu_action[i], depth++);
};
_root[main_menu_var].onRollOver = function() {
this.over_effect.removeMovieClip();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("over_effect", depth++);
with (this.over_effect) {
beginFill(mouse_over_colour, 100);
lineStyle(0, mouse_over_colour, 100);
moveTo(0, 0);
lineTo(0, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 9);
lineTo(0, 9);
endFill();
}
};
_root[main_menu_var].onRollOut = function() {
this.over_effect.removeMovieClip();
};
_root[main_menu_var].onRelease = function() {
_root[prevname]["click_effect_"+prevname].removeMovieClip();
prevname = this._name;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("click_effect_"+this._name, depth++);
with (this["click_effect_"+this._name]) {
beginFill(mouse_clicked_colour, 100);
lineStyle(0, mouse_clicked_colour, 100);
moveTo(0, 0);
lineTo(0, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 0);
lineTo(area_width, 9);
lineTo(0, 9);
endFill();
}
tval = main_menu_action[this._name.slice(this._name.length-1, this._name.length)];
trace("tval=" + tval);
loadMovieNum(tval, depth++);
};
}

Rollover Button Effect And Then Text Fades Inside A Particular Area
hey,

can anyone help me put a rollover affect on a button and then once the cursor is over teh button, text within a box would fade in and then once the cursor is out of teh button, the text would fade out....

the text would be inside a box just above the button...
pls, im new to flash mx and it's concept, post your ideas and comments....

thanks
mack

Text Scrolling & Mouse Button
Hi, can anyone tell me how to change my text scrolling buttons so the text scrolls when the button is held down, currently I can only get it to scroll down one click at a time.

The code Ive got for the scrolling buttons is:

Up Button

on (press) {
this.news_txt.scroll -= 1;
}

Down Button

on (press) {
this.news_txt.scroll += 1;
}

Is it surely possible to add some additional actionscript to this to get the text to scroll when the mouse button is held down?

Thanks

Lyle

Trying To Make A Button Rollover, Wait And Recheck Rollover
hi. i'm mostly comfortable with the graphical elements of using flash and there a gaps in my knowledge when i want to polish things up.

i have a bunch of buttons which, when rolled over, trigger some text to sweep accross in an area above the buttons and sweep away when rolled out.
this works nicely but if the viewer sweeps the mouse over a few buttons quickly all the MCs with text in play and it gets very messy.

the only way i can think to tidy this up is to make the button delay when rolled over and recheck about half a second later. if it's still rolled over then it plays the MC. i tried this the obvious way (triggering a small MC with onRollover > play MC at the end) but it needs the actual act of rolling over to trigger so i had to roll out and over again which defies the point >.<

i realise this is a really specific problem and it's very cheeky to ask others to solve my problems but if any of you have come accross similar problems and can point me in a better direction i'd really appreciate it.

Button RollOver/RollOut Effects WITH Looping On RollOver
I'm planning to use this tutorial, below to make a button:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/button_effect.htm

My question is how can I make it so that only on the rollover, the effect will keep looping?

Example: http://jump5.com/

On the right side, the navigation has this nice hover animation with the pointing arrow that continues to twitch on rollover.

Text Button Link That Gradually Glows On Mouse Over
Hi,

As the subject says, I'm trying to create a button/movie clip text link where the text gradually glows when the mouse goes over it.

I know how to make a round (for example) button gradually change color, but I'm having trouble with text. I found a page that explains how to make text glow (by softening the edges), but that was for Flash 5, and I can't even get the "soften fill edges" option to become active in MX.

Does anybody have any ideas about how I could accomplish this? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Todd

[f8] Button RollOver Show's Movie. How To Unshow Movie On RollOver Other Button
I've made a productoverview in flash.

There are 4 productphoto's (buttons with just a rollOver-function, no clicks).

Behind every productphoto there is a detailed product-specification (movie) that shows up when rollOver on the productphoto's.

So I want the product-specification movie to appear when theres a rollOver on the productphoto. The movie has to show on rollOver and has to stay visible on rollOut. But when u move to the next productphoto (rollOver) the previous product-specification movie has to disappear and the new one has to show.

I don't know what to do. so far i have this:

on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("sony-1-1") {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

Mouse Rollover Help Please.
i'm trying to get a rollover effect to work on a symbol (so that the mouse wouldn't turn into the hand-pointing thing)
Anyways, someone gave me the code on the bottom to achive this, but i can't get the code to goandplay action to work. I can only get it to work with the loadmovie command. If someone knows, please share, thanks...

onClipEvent(mouseMove){
if(this.hitTest(_level0._xmouse,_level0._ymouse,1) ){
if(!meOver){
// what mouseover action needs to go here
// to make this load a different frame???
meOver = 1;
}
}else if(meOver){
// mouse out action here
meOver = 0;
}
}

Text On Mouse Rollover Of Button

How do you put a little text bubble next to the mouse when it in on the rollover of a button?