Flash :: Ugh. Help With Movie Buttons

Hiding Buttons Or Movie Clips With Buttons With Actionscripting
Greetings,

I really need someone's help. I am trying to hide buttons from screen when certain conditions are set. For example, I have a variable called Amount. Now, I have a textfield that displays the value of Amount. Three buttons are visible. Each button has actionscript so when click each button would subtract some amount from the variable Amount. Button 5 will subtract 5 from Amount and button 10,20 accordingly. Now, when Amount is less than 20. I wanted to make the 20 button disappear from the screen (not using timeline, object oriented actionscripting). Then when Amount is less than 10 the 10 button will disappear.

I tried making the button disappear with "five._visible=false;" However, I was told I could not do that with buttons. So, i created a movie with button inside. It disappears with "moviefive._visible=false;" But the button does not work when visible. I can see the little hand when I place the mouse over the button, but it does not work. It does not subtract from the variable Amount.

When someone clicks the five button, five button has code that will subtract 5 from Amount and if statements that will "twenty._visible=false;" if the Amount is now less than 20.

Could someone please help me. Thank you very much. I really appreciate any assistance you could provide.

Thanks again

Buttons, Buttons, And More Buttons...oh And Movie Clips Too
MY QUESTION IS AT THE END and UNTIL THEN IS A BACKGROUND... PLEASE HELP!

moving along...
Ive now made several .fla files for my hour long movie. each .fla file ranges from 2-20mb. not too shabby... Ive done the load movie thing and it ran fine... i havent put any sound yet.. but i'll ask about that question later...

okay.. so the whole thing has about 30 slides... i have 5 .fla files which has 3-5 movie clips in each... each movie clip has about 1-3 slides.

everything is fine so far... (no audio, but im not there yet)

Since i dont have sound cutting software currently... i thought id make movie controls for this video....

originally i put the controls in the original timeline.. not the movie clips.. but my pause didnt work and my play acted like a fast forward... my fast forward would go to the next movie clip(which i anticipated)... but I wanted the fast forward to jump every 12frames..

so here comes the problem....

i copy pasted the buttons in the same exact place in every movie clip.... so it should ,in theory,work like it was on one timeline.. but it wont export.. the file is still the same size.. (insignificantly larger ,less than a mb)..

my question is:

does having buttons on every movie clip ( which frames length range from 400-2000, avg.1000) have a problem with flash...??????????not allowing me to export.. or maybe it's just having so many errors it wont run... in fact... when i close it down (because it wont let me cancel..) it wont let me re open the .fla again.. unless i restart the computer

Movie With Buttons Via AttachMovie, Buttons Not Working
'm developing a flash menu (using flash MX) for a website I'm building (it's a gallery to show off my travel photos and my journal entries). I have the basic layout the way I want but I am having a problem accessing buttons within an attached movie.

Code:
//quick hack to get onRelease functionality for a movieclip
_global.MovieClip.prototype.onRelease_ = function(murl){
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
this.onRelease = function(){
trace(murl);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

//when a user places their mouse over a menu item, it will scroll out from the right
//if there are submenus associated with this item, loadsubMenu function will be called
MovieClip.prototype.topmenuOut = function(tmo_speed,has_sub1,toload,temp_name){
if(has_sub1 eq "" || has_sub1 ne "false" && has_sub1 ne "true"){
has_sub1 = "false";
}
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(this._x > 0){
this._x -= tmo_speed;
}
else{
if(has_sub1 eq "true"){
_global.isShowing = this;
this.loadSubMenu("add_",toload,temp_name);
}
delete this.onEnterFrame;
stop();
}
}
}
//when a user moves their mouse away from a menu item, if it is "exposed" it will move
// back to its default
MovieClip.prototype.topmenuIn = function(tmi_speed,has_subm){
if(has_subm eq "" || has_subm ne "false" && has_subm ne "true"){
has_subm = "false";
}
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(this._x < 214){
this._x += tmi_speed;
}
else{
if(has_subm eq "true"){
_global.isShowing = "";
}
delete this.onEnterFrame;
stop();
}
}
}
//called from topmenuOut if there are submenus present; will attach the appropriate movie //as set in the movieclip that the mouse is currently placed over and will attach the //submenu clip to the current movieclip
//all calling (top level menus) movies have had their linkage set to export for actionscript //and first frame and reference names set
//in addition the submenu is faded in and out depending if todo (passed from calling menu //movie) is set to add_ or del_
MovieClip.prototype.loadSubMenu = function(todo,omovie,temp_movie){
if(todo eq "add_"){
temp = this.attachMovie(omovie,temp_movie,100,{_x:0,_y:54});
temp._alpha = 0;
temp.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(temp._alpha < 100){
this._alpha += 5;
}
else{
delete temp.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}
if(todo eq "del_"){
temp.swapDepths(99);
temp.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(temp._alpha > 0){
this._alpha -= 5;
}
else{
delete temp.onEnterFrame;
temp.removeMovieClip();
}
}
}
}
//from a menu movie (acting as button) on the main timeline(called //guestbook) and defined in the movie itself
on(rollOver){
topmenuOut(5,"true","subm_guestbook","temp_guestbook");
}
on(rollOut){
if(_global.isShowing eq this){
loadSubMenu("del_","subm_guestbook","temp_guestbook");
topmenuIn(5,"true");
}
else{
topmenuIn(5);
}
}
on(release){
this.onRelease_("hello");
}
The problems lies in the fact that I have a movie called mov_subm_guestbook, exported for AS and first frame with the label: subm_guestbook. When you hover over the top level menu "guestbook", it will move from right to left then the submenu will be show (attached to guestbook via attachMovie) with the fade in and fade out effects working. However I cant access any of the two buttons in the submenu. I have defined both as buttons and nothing. I've used

Code:
Button.prototype.swapDepths = MovieClip.prototype.swapDepths;
to set the depth of the buttons within the attachedMovie to something high like 10000 using <instancename>.swapDepths(10000). But still no go.

I've tested out the submenu with "Test Scene" and the buttons work then, just not if I attach them to another movie with attachMovie.

I'm still new to actionscript (but I'm really familiar with other types of coding and scripting) and I would appreciate any help.

Thanks.

bungilo

Loading Buttons VS Buttons In The Main Movie
Hi!
I want to ask if it's faster to have the buttons in the main movie itself and these buttons loads other external SWFs into the container?
What about if the buttons themselvs are loaded SWFs?
Do these two different solutions have anything with smoothness and playback speed of the movie?

mx-guest2004

Fast Forward And Rewind Buttons To Control Movie Clips AND Main Movie
I am creating a software training movie in Flash (MX). The main movie has text, sound and animations directly on the main timeline, and also includes external swfs (video screen captures) that are loaded dynamically into a movieclip target.

loadMovie("bkr_openpgm.swf", "mc_finvideo");

I'm not importing these videos because they can be quite large after importing (my video capturing software can export as swf and avi). I will never play more than one movieclip at a time (so I use the same movieclip to load all movies: mc_finvideo), and there can be many frames in between movie clips where there's only non-movieclip stuff going on on the main timeline.  After I finish playing a movie clip , I unload the movie from the movieclip using the following on the frame on the main timeline where the movieclip should end

mc_finvideo.unloadMovie()

I have play, pause, fast forward and rewind buttons on the main timeline that control the main movie just fine. The play and pause buttons also control the movieclip fine.

However, I'm having problems with the rewind and fast forward controlling the movieclip. The button logic works fine (moves play ahead or back 100 frames) UNLESS I click the rewind button at a point within 100 frames AFTER a movie clip has unloaded. Then (assuming the last movie clip was at least 100 frames long), the movie goes back to a frame where there should be a movie loaded, but of course there isn't, since the frame that loaded the movie clip wasn't hit.
Here's the code for the rewind button's on release event:

    intCurrFrame = math.round(_currentframe);
    intMCCurrFrame = math.round(mc_finvideo._currentframe);

    //if the movieclip is closer than 100 frames
    //  to the beginning, go back 100 frames
    //  otherwise unload it
    if ((mc_finvideo._currentframe - 100) > mc_finvideo._totalframes) {
            mc_finvideo.gotoAndPlay(intMCCurrFrame - 100);
    } else {
            mc_finvideo.unloadmovie();
     }
    this.gotoAndPlay((intCurrFrame - 100));

The fast forward button is similarly problematic -- if I click fast forward within 100 frames of a frame where a movie clip will load, the frame that the movie fast forwards to has no movie clip playing because the frame that loads the clip was skipped over.

Can anyone help me make this work? (Maybe I'm going about this whole thing the hard way?)
I can post a sample fla if it will help clarify.

Thanks

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 That Play A Movie In Reverse And Loads A Movie
Let's say i have a movie that plays, scene and the buttons are placed on the movie and and the movie stops, okay now my problem is that, I would like to know if its possible, and how to do this:

Once my movie and buttons are loaded on the scene, i want to know if there is a way, that i can make it so that, once i click on one of my buttons, the movie goes to a certain frame on the movie so it looks like its playing backward to a blank screen, and after its to a blank screen i want it to load the appropriate movie for the button i clicked.....

I tried to this a while ago, and it did not work, since i have 12 buttons that are linked to open and play 12 different movies...

any kind of help would be greatly appreciated......

thanks

Two Emptymovieclips--buttons In Top Movie Can't Load Bottom Movie
Here's the Big Picture:
I have a Flash masthead with a menu bar. The masthead also has a rounded shape with a mask so anything underneath it will be revealed around the mask. It loads into an emptymovieclip at, say, level 10. Each item on the menu bar loads a specific SWF file into a second emptymovieclip at, say, level 5. Everything else on the main stage will be below these two empty movie clips.

I have buttons with instance names in the masthead. The script that controls the buttons and everything else is in a frame on the main stage.

Here's the ActionScript:

Code:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("masthead",10);
masthead._x = 0
masthead._y = 0

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("body",5);
body._x = 0
body._y = 0

loadMovie("masthead.swf","masthead");

home.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("home.swf","body");
};
geninfo.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("geninfo.swf","body");
};
agenda.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("agenda.swf","body");
};
registration.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("registration.swf","body");
};
speakers.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("speakers.swf","body");
};
activities.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("activities.swf","body");
};
contact.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("contact.swf","body");
};
home_btn2contact.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie ("contact.swf","body");
};
What's (Not) Happening:
The masthead appears as expected, but none of the body items appear in the level-5-emptymovieclip when any of the menu buttons are clicked. Flash's debugger says the syntax is correct, but that doesn't tell me if I'm using an incorrect function, or I'm assigning a function incorrectly.

At this point, I can't tell if I'm coding the buttons incorrectly (I double-checked all the instance names and they match), or if I'm using emptymovieclip incorrectly, or whether the assigned movies are loading at all (I double-checked all the movie names and they match), or if the assigned movies are actually loading but somehow hidden (I tried assigning different positions to the emptymovieclips so something in the "body" will peek out from behind the "masthead"; no dice), or something else I haven't thought of.

I searched for an answer and there are plenty of instructions on how to do things right, but hardly any on what not to do, and none that matched my situation. So I'm hoping you fine folks have some insight to share. Anyone?

[F8] External Movie W/ Buttons Need To Link To Another Loaded Movie
Hello fellow Flashers.

I have a file "index.swf" that is my main flash file. I have loaded another flash file "summercamp.swf" into a empty movie clip titled "scEmptyclip" that is located on "index.swf".

On the external loaded "summercamp.swf" I have another external loaded file that is a scroll down menu "scScrollMenu.swf" with buttons that need to link to labeled frames on "summercamp.swf". The empty movie clip that loads the scroll down menu is "sdmEmptyclip".

So the question is how do you code a button in a loaded movie inside an empty movie clip that on release it will unload the movie clip, go back to the "summercamp.swf" loaded movie and play the labeled scene?

If you need to see the site it it:
http://www.chucktropolis.com/alina/

index.swf is the initial animated page with the buttons
summercamp.swf is where the summer theatre camp button takes you
scScrollMenu.swf is the green scroll down menu on the summer camp page.

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Buttons Within A Movie To Link To A Frame Label In Another Movie
hi there got a bit prob guys here is the site im working on

http://www.brownsville.org.uk/graph.../bone/index.htm

if you look at the site you will see the scrolling nav bar at the bottom which is its own movie within the my main movie i need to create a links in this scrolling nav bar to frame labels within the main movie anyone got any idea how to do this? thanks in advance!!

Making Buttons In One Movie To Control Another Movie
Hello,
I making a Flash movie that has a movie inside of it that I want to act as an index. The Flash movie displays images, and I want the movie inside the Flash movie to display thumbnails, so you can click on the thumbnails in one movie to show the picture in the "main" Flash movie. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Greg

Controlling Movie Clip With Buttons In Movie
I need to control a movie clip from the movie with buttons in the movie or in the movie clip and I tried with the action but with no use....

please help me

how do I write this ????

Buttons In One Movie Loading Movie Clips In Another?
I am making a paper dollish project to experiment with loading movie clips and ran into a problem. The way I have it set up the "main" animation loads and a character is displayed. There is a button that when clicked loads a "picker" movie on top of the animation that allows the user to select a clothing piece. What I want it to do is when a piece is clicked the "picker" movie is unloaded and the clothing piece is loaded on top of the figure in the "main" movie. The problem I ran into was The load movie script in the "picker" didn't recognise the place holder movie clip in the "main" movie. I imagine that I have to specify which movie to load my "clothing" movieclip into. How is this achieved or is it even possible?

Movie Control Buttons In Flash Movie
Hiya,

Any help please folks, I having difficulties with the fast forward and fast rewind buttons on my flash movie

Calling The Buttons Of One Movie Into A Nested Movie
Hi Saviour
I have a main menu, the navigation in this main movie is externally loaded in blank movie, navblank_mc . One of the menu buttons loading in this main menu is "Work". And in work.fla , i have a blank movie again called "tbnblank_mc" in which i have externally loaded the zooming thumbnails.swf.

I have buttons called "print", "web" etc in the work.fla. Now on clicking Print button , I want that only thumbnail 2, 4, 6, 8 should be visible in zoomingthumbnails.fla.

How do i connect the buttons of work.fla with thumbnails of zoomingthumbnails.fla...

plz help..dis is veryyyyyyy urgent...im working on a deadline...

Thanx a ton

Buttons In External Movie To Control Whole Movie
I built a movie in a seperate flash file called menu.swf. I then built site.swf. I am loading menu.swf into a clip called Menu_Shell inside site.swf. I want the buttons in menu.swf to play movies in the Main_Shell clip I have in site.swf. The movies will be individual swf files for each button selection for instance contact button opens contact.swf. How can I make the buttons load the different movies into Main_Shell? Thanks in Advance

Lsu420Luv

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!

Buttons In A Movie Help
I have some buttons in a movie. The buttons are supposed to go to each scene. I made the first one and then made duplicates for each page. I know the buttons wont work in a movie clip. But could some one please tell me how to fix this.

Buttons In Movie PLEASE HELP
Hey people,

I've been working on my website but I have found a problem.

I thought it was easy, but it's the only thing I got stuck in.

For my interface I have put a button "Main Menu" that when you click on it; it pops up a box with the areas to navigate (e.g. Home, Profile, Contact us, etc etc). But, since this is all in a movie, I can't make the action to jump to the next scene work! It really is kicking my brains out and I hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Jisimni_Mark

Buttons Within Movie Help
HI

i think this should be fairly straight forward. Here is the site i am working on
http://www.marcopuig.com

As u can see the images slide in when you click on the buttons across the screen. Each set of images is in a separate movie. And each image is separate within that move. What i basially want ot happen is when a user click on one of the images, a new browser window will open displaying a larger version of the same image.

I understand i need to convert each image in the movie to a button. I am not sure whihc scrpit to attach to the button in order for it to open a new enlarged version of the image.

if anyone has any ideas it would be a great help.

thanks alot

gavin

Movie Too Big For Buttons?
Hi,
I've presented this cracking concept to the client which envolves a 740x2000 (two thousand) pixel high swf. Cool huh?

However, now I've got my shirt sleeves rolled up and working on production, I've just noticed that buttons fail to become interactive if they are placed more than 700 pixels down the movie.

Is this a memory thang?

So whats the solution - create a number of movies down the page or rethink my crazy idea and go back to a 740x560?

Rashers.

Using Buttons In A Movie
Hi peoples, My names Absta , just another crazy flash designer needing some help.
I am creating a flash intranet and ive created a movie symbol wich is a drop down menu. from that menu i need one of the buttons to link to another scene. Is there a way to do this because i can not figure it out. Thanksheaps

Movie Buttons
I am trying to get movies to work as buttons but having some difficulty in the over states for them as they are larger than the hitarea movie that I have specified for the first two options.
I have added in a background fill for the over state over the button/movies.
The depth of the buttons seems to be a problem in that they remain over the over state - check out the fla and this will make more sense.

Would really appreciate some help getting this working for all the buttons.

cheers

Jamie

Movie Buttons
I'd appreciate any help on this movie issue - and I'm using Flash MX:

I'm developing a tutorial, and have used Camtasia to capture the video. In Camtasia Studio, unfortunately, an swf file is exported with its controllers separate, along with an html and xml file for configuration. HTML and xml files aside, I found a solution to keep the video intact and at a decent quality and frame rate -
1. export the video from Camtasia to a Quicktime mov.
2. Then I import the QT movie into a Flash file and publish it as an swf.
3. In a "master" FLA file, I have created an empty movie clip and a frame using loadMovie to load the QT-imported-into-SWF movie (which loads the movie just fine).

But it's lost all interactivity! So my point (finally): how do I create buttons in the "master" file to play, pause, and stop the loaded movie?

Thanks!
EB:
confused:

Buttons Within A Movie?
I am working on creating an image gallery using scrolling thumbnails for navigation. I am using the actionscript from this tutorial on my thumbnails: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htm

Originally, my thumbnails were all buttons, and they all had scripting that made them load into a loader box using "on (release) {loadMovie("JPG", "BOX")}. This tutorial, and another one that I saw, say to put all the buttons into one big movie - only then you loose all the functionality of the buttons.

Am I still able to make these thumbnails clickable to load the JPEG into the loader? Is there a better way to go about this?

Ryan

EDIT: I am using Flash 2004 Pro

Buttons And Movie
Help Please, im having to do some work in flash and running out of time. Any advice will gladly appreciated, I have used the advice from the thread below...

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=652474

My problem is that when i click on the button the movie does appear but at the top left corner of the page, which covers buttons and the banner etc....

Please please please ..... how can i make the movie open up in a different location within the page.

Buttons And Movie
Hi.
I made button and asigned action
on release
gotoandstop (1)
I named it BACKBUTTON
It works fine..

Now, i write some text arround, select all and make all movieclip.
Named it BACKBOX
Now when i preview movie, my button doesnt work. Its shoving that theres link (that palm with pointfinger) but do nothing when i click.
What is wrong?

Movie Buttons
hi,this is my first post here.am doing my graduation project next semester.now am going to make 3d clips in 3d max and the import them in flash and through there,i will make buttons which load the next movie.now my problem is that i want the same button,but each time loads a different movie (not randomly).thankx heapss.

Buttons Within A Movie
Hi,

I have a dropdown navigation menu that 'drops down' when you press the button sitting above the dropdown menu. I have made the dropdown menu as a movie clip and have added some text to the drop down menu and converted them to buttons within the movie. I want the buttons to play particular frames within scene1.

However, the buttons within the movie clip don't work.

How do I get them to work? Please help!

Thanks

Help With Buttons Over Movie
Hi all,

I recieved some great help here about 4 years ago, which was about the last time I used Flash.

Since that time I've become a video producer, but I had to turn an avi into a .swf (which all went fine), but the boss wants a "skip" button in the corner which will jump to the last frame and stop. On that last frame, I'll need to make an area of the image clickable to another webpage in the site.

Sooooo, I'm hoping some kind soul would please give me the steps to do this as I really don't want to work the holiday weekend re-learning Flash (once I start I'm sure much will come back). If anyone could list the 3-6 steps I'd need to do I'd really really appreciate it.

I know this kind of request is usually frowned on, but it really is a special situation.

Thanks for the time - I appreciate it.

Lands

How To Add Buttons To This Movie
Hi!
I find this nice movie from:
"Lukas 238" Simple Desaccelerating Menu Bar
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...1024/index.php
with 6 buttons I'm trying to do a presentation work for my school and I can't add a button for some reason doesn’t allow me to change the instance name to 7,8,9 or 10 it give me an error (7 is not a valid instance name. please enter identifier that begin with an alphabetic character or other supported symbol), all I need to do is have 4 more buttons with my 10 images, when I click in the button 7,8,9,or 10 it show the same image in button 6, and I also did change the number in the action script:

onClipEvent(load){
_texto = "Area 7";
}
on (release){
_parent._changeArea(this._name);
} can some body help me out with this remember I'm new in flash but I can follow step by step with no problems
Thanks!

Movie Buttons
I am pretty new to this, so I am sure I am doing something drastically wrong with this site.

Here goes...

I have a menu on the left side of my webpage (see attached file) It is calling up movies to play in a frame on the right. That all works fine.

Here is my problem:

While the frame on the right is playing, I want the button (which is a movie clip) to stay in the position it is in while you are rolliong over it, so people know which movie they are watching. I put "on release gotoand stop" Instead, since I have them set up to be groovy while you are rolling over them, they automatically pick up the "rollout" when you roll off them.

Did I make any sense?

I am sure there is a way to go about this that is completely different from what I have started. If anyone can look at the actionscript on these buttons and give me some advice I would truly apreciate it. Thanks!!

Buttons Within A Movie
hi i have a scrolling bar which is converted to a movie file. im trying to put certain links in this bar to frame labels but it wont work? ive tried putting url links in and they work fine! im not sure why they wont do it
heres my code

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("chi");
}

chi being the frame label! its reall weird anyone help?

Movie Buttons
I have no idea what I am doing with Flash, but we have a web developer who has created our site entirely in Flash, and one section is our gallery. He has these buttons that will pop up an image inside of a frame on the stage, and it works nicely. The only thing that I want to do with them (and he says he does not know how to do it) is have them change color or give a different look aftre you click them so users know they have viewed those images already. If anybody could point me in the right direction on this or sned me some scripting that would work with this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Buttons Within Movie Clips
I have been having awful problems with movie clips.
I have constructed a site that uses 7 scenes. it includes a preloader 2 animated movies and the menu. the menu consists of a monocrafts style menu, which has a scrolling nav bar which contains the option buttons. I have tried varies methods of actionscript to get the button inside the movie clip to goto whatever I point it at, no luck. I have used the new dots notation too. I really would appreciate any help or advice on this matter, I am at my wits end. I can supply the fla for the menu if it helps. thanks in advance

Buttons W/movie Clips
So.. after hours of struggling I managed to stick together a little button with a movie clip in it.. but it's still not perfect.
Does anyone know
1) how to make a movie clip NOT looping?
2) how to make it so there's a clickable square around the text - so you don't have to click just the letters themselves?

I'd be grateful for any help. ^__^

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???

Movie Clips As Buttons? Help
I have a scrolling menu. I need to use a Movie Clip as a button... Can it be done using, on clip event? How can I set the rollover?

Buttons In Movie Clips
I have a button in a movie clip that I want to go outside the movie clip to scene 2 then a fram label. Just need the code. Thanks

Buttons In Movie Clips
I have created a symbol with movie clip behaviour. Within this symbol I have placed some instances of a button I made. However, no matter what action I try to make the button do, it won't do it. That is, I can't change any of my variables, or jump to a different frame in my flash movie, etc.
It works fine if I place the button straight into my flash movie, but inside a movie clip it doesn't seem to work.

This may be a stupid question, but can anyone help me?

Hallo, I Would Like Help On Buttons, In A Movie
all my scenes should follow on one another,
there should be a button, and only when you click it, it must go to the following page. each page must have a next and previous button. now making the movie isnt my problem, it is the button!! How do you put a button on your movie, and only when you click it, it must go to the next scene??
Please help!!

Buttons, Movie Distress...
hi

is there anyway to bend a text to fit to the edge of a circle in Flash 5?

how do i get a button to play a certain movie and display other buttons that can play another movie? say hitting button A would play you a movie and buttons B,C,D appearing. Upon hitting, these buttons play an exclusive movie. how?

i'm confused. also, how do you get movies to play on a common workspace? like you roll over button 1, something comes out on Space x. you roll over button 2, it plays on space x too. of course, there won't be the animation from button 1.

thank you
hope i am clear...=)

Buttons And Movie Clips
hello everyone, this is my first posting, My question is this:
I want to make buttons on my homepage that brings up another screnn/menu when you rollover it. Then when that screen is up be able to insert more rollovers within that screen that came up.
I can do this by making the button a button symbol, then in the over state I make it a movi clip. It works the way I want it to look, the movie clip plays when I rollover the button. I want to add more buttons within that movie clip and continue down into other MC's etc... My problem is when I move my mouse cursor off the button the movie clip goes away until I roll over again. I have put the stop script in the movie clip and that works, the movie clip plays and stops. How can I keep that movie clip on the screen for my mouse cursor to move around and select other buttons within that movie clip?
anyhelp would be great, thanks

Movie Clips Or Buttons (Maybe?)
I would like to have a button start a movie clip and the same button to stop it, while the main movie continues to play.....Thanks

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.....