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Creating Animated Buttons Tut-Linking The Buttons To Content
I followed Lee's excellent tut on creating buttons using movies clips.

I am rather confused as to how the buttons can be linked to content -

ie Portfolio button to portfolio page - Contact button to contact page.

Im rather new to flash 8 however from my understanding of MX2004 I know
how to create a behaviour on a button symbol to play a certain page. After playing about with Flash this evening I was unable to get any button created using the tut to link to another page.

Can someone point me in the right direction, code or otherwise.

Thanks

Chris

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Animated Buttons
I have created a set of animated buttons.
I Have 1 button on the screen when you run the mouse over the button 2 other buttons drop down from befind the first.
The problem is that if you mouse the mouse over the button quickly and then move it back off i can't find a way to make the animated buttons move back up.it works fine if you do it slowly.

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situation: i have a series of animated buttons on the same layer (each a different MC). When the user does a rollover and rollout the buttons enlarge and deenlarge.

problem: when the rollover happens(enlarge) the other buttons can be seen on top of this button.

question: is there a script i can use that will bring this button or animation to the front by simply doing a rollover?

thank you for the help.

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Animated Buttons?
I'm trying to figure out how to make a button animate once the cursor rolls over it. What is the best possible way to do this?

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I'm trying to create a button that animates when the mouse rolls over it, and then finishes the animation once the mouse rolls off of it. I've made the movie clip and placed it inside the up state of a button clip. The animation icludes a bar within the button that slides to one side and flashes when the mouse is on top of it. Once the mouse rolls off, I want the bar to return to its "resting" state. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Troy

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Hi, can someone look at my site, (I'm realllly sorry this is a blog (a poorly set up one at that), but all I need is help with my menu): http://www.raginazn.cjb.net (I think it's half-decent considering all that I know how to do is tween and use basic Dreamweaver)

Okay, my problem is that I want the menu on the left to work the main frame, and when I click a button, I want that button to do something animated until another page is loaded in the frame. Is there a way to detect what page is loaded in the frame? I'm thinking this way because the page in the frame may be changed by something like the browser back button or some other link.

Thanks

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Hi ya, i am trying to create buttons that animate when you roll over them, twhen click upon i want it to carry out another functions.

for an example pls visit

http://westwood.ea.com/

i think you need to use the tell target action, any advice? pls be very simple and thorough in any replies, Not flash Wizard me!

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Hello im a newbie to the forum and you could say a newbie to flash (about 6 months)
Anyway i have always wanted to know how to make animated buttons. I know you can add a button to a movie clip and use that but is there a way to keep it within the button symbol?

Hope you understand what i meen, like can you add multiple frames to the UP OVER DOWN frames.

Plz Hlp.
WZL

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can someone please tell me how to make buttons like these?
http://www.aiwa.com

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Hi

I have a button where i placed a movieclip in a layer above the over state of my button-symbol. it is a word (for example "homepage") that i want to flash white and then turn to grey.

i have two problems now:

1. the movieclip with the text-flashing is again displayed when i click the button
2. the text-symbols with the name of the buttons (with same text options) look a bit different in the movieclip and in the other states of the button

thank you very much for your help

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Help On Animated Buttons
hello,

I have seen some websites such as http://www.clandbz.net that have this button effect. I am talking about when you move your mouse over a button, it have a movie-like animation behind it......

how do you do this? I tried putting a movie clip in the down frame of a button, but it dont work.....

please help

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Animated Buttons?
How do I get animated buttons? I want them to have a static image thenwhen the mouse is over then I want a GIF to play, then when they click it it goes back to the original static image. How do I do this? I've tried importing the GIF, but it doesn't work (It puts each frame of the GIF in the "Over, Down, Hit, then goes on to 5,6,7,8,9,10,11 resulting in only the 1st frame of the GIF to be shown when the mouse goes over)

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I know how to create buttons that are still

but I've seen some sites where when you have the cursor over the button it animates
or the button animates even when the cursor is not over teh button.

Please help thnx!

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I have a tutorial for flash 5 I found about making an animated button but the animation does not seem to work. I can create a normal button with ease but when I attempt to add the animation in the "over" frame (in this case I change the alpha to have it fade out) the animation doesnt work. I also have the "down" frame have the button change color and that works perfectly. All I do is make the animation a symbol of its own and the anmation works in the library window fine but when I drag it into the "over" frame I dont get the animation in the movie at all. I have the enable simple buttons option checked (and have tried it not checked) but it just doesnt want to work at all. Any idea what Im doing wrong?

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I'm having problems finding a tutorial on how to make animated buttons... I've found a few on here, and they say to insert a new symbol (movie clip) while in the button timeline. However, this doesn't work. Then when I try to drag the movie clip into the over state, Flash MX says I can't put a symbol inside of a symbol. Could anyone point me to a simple animated button tutorial?
thanks,
Kristyn

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Hi

I want to know how to make a button that plays an animation when the mouse gets over it. I just don´t get how it works (layer setup, stop action). Can someone get me a simple fla so I can take a look at it?

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I'm trying to make a small animation into a button, and I can't do it. If I click on my symbol, and select convert to symbol > movie clip, then set up a new button symbol, and drag the movie clip symbol from my library and put it in place for my 'up' keyframe, it doesn't want to play. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? Or are there any online tutorials on how to create animated buttons that anyone knows of? Any help would be sweet.
Cheers

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Animated Buttons...
Hello all,

I wonder... some websites have very cool buttons that animate (I don't mean just a colour change but a real moving effect) and all when you have your mouse over it (roll over), push it, and so on.
Are those buttons categorized as "button" in Flash or are they little MovieClips with a hidden button behind the whole animation?
Is there a significant difference between real buttons and MovieClips used as buttons? In size or possibilities maybe?

Thanks in advance!

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I realise this is prob a very easy question, but I'm a flash newbee although I've been a web designer for 6 years. I have no problem with flash animation or creating buttons... but I can't seem to figure out how to make an animated button. I would like there to be a motion tween on the roll-over state in my button. I have looked through the the tutorials and I cant seem to find one that illisrates how to do this. Can anyone help? I'd really apreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
Jessy

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This is my last hope, pls somebody help me...
I try to make one animated button but after few hundred ours working on it, I'm still not able to make one that is working, I searched a few 100 resource pages but couldn't find any where one tutorial that show this one clearly.
Is there anyone who can help me or send me some examples of animated buttons or some site addresses where they show tutorials about buttons with movie clip inside?

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Is there a way to give a standard button in Flash 5 an animated Mouse Over state? I tried it once and failed in doing so. Is it hard to do?

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Hey all, I just had a question as to what people feel is the "best" way to create mouseOvers that animate not only on mouseOver but on mouseOut. Currently, I've only been able to create a "mouse out" effect by basically playing a movie clip backwards in the Over frame of a button. What this means is that for each nav link I have I have not only the button but the embeded movie clip, which can make my libraries pretty confusing to people who aren't me. Any thoughts/tips?

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Animated Buttons?
okies,
how do i make animated buttons?

GOODIES

cya

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i know how to make animated buttons when you scroll over them but i cannot figure out how some people make them animate back whenever your move your mouse off of them.. i tried the tutorial that flashkit has and it did not work for me.. if someone could explain it better i would appriciate it..

thanks
levi....

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here's the problem,

I'm using flash 5 and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I have a scrolling toolbar made of buttons, I need to have the buttons call up images but there is like 500 and I don't want to have to make a new scene for every image. How can I incorporate the animation with the buttons

Thanks
Mel

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Animated Buttons...
Hey all,

I have an animated button (a circle graphic) and when someone rolls their mouse over it, I want it to run a short animation, (more specifically I want it to increase in size by tweening, but I know how to that).

First, I would like to know how I do this? How do I have an animated button? I've created buttons that change color when you hover the mouse over them before, with a single frame, but I've not created fully animated buttons.

Second, If someone removes the mouse from the designated area, I want the animation to be reversed. IE. As soon as they move their mouse away, I want the circle to become smaller again. More specifically, if they move their mouse away in the middle of the animation, I want the animation to go backwards from the frame that they move their mouse.

Does that make sense and is it possible to do that?

Thanks.

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Animated Buttons Help
Hi, i have made a new website design but the buttons dont work properly, when you click on a button it just replays the button animation, not go to the page i want it to go.
There are two pages Home and Profile.
When you click the profile button it just plays the animation again.
ANNOYING!
Please can somebody help me?
Site URL is
http://www.antzsite.cjb.net

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Animated Buttons...
I've attached a file from a previous question that I asked about animated buttons(link to the file is at the bottom of this post).

I've been trying to adjust the code to use for a simple site that I'm creating and I've been trying to use this code:

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

If you double-click one of the Movie Clip/Buttons in the FLA, then check the actions of the button, there is this code:

on (rollOver, dragOver) {
this.scale = 1;
for (i=1; i<=_root.numButtons; i++) {
_root["button"+i].swapDepths(1);
}
this.swapDepths(2);
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
this.scale = 0;
}

Now if I add this code:

on (release) {
getURL ("http://www.flashkit.com", "_blank");
}

Then that works and it will open a new window with flashkit.com .

But if I use this code:

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

Then it won't do anything.

So why does getURL code work and not gotoAndPlay code? And how can I get it working?

Thanks.

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Animated Buttons (in MX)
Hi all!
I got a little - and probably quite simple query - which I hope someone can help me with.

The end result I wanna achieve is to have a button. When the mouse goes over it an animation plays (e.g. Button_Open), when the mouse goes off the button another animation plays (e.g. Button_Close). When you click on the button another animation plays (e.g. Button_Down), and when you let go another animation plays (e.g. Button_Up).

Now with the standard button timeline thing you can do the open animation (but it keeps looping!), but you cant do the CLOSE or the UP, obv I presume you'd need to use actionscript, but thats not a problem, I used to be a C/C++ coder...but I juz dont know all the lingo in flash...

another problem I have is, that ideally all 4 button animations should be in one movie clip, i.e. in the one movie clip, the button opens, is clicked (goes down then up), then closes.
e.g. In more detail: the button is closed at frame 0, the open animation is frames 1-15, the down animation is frames 16-20, the up animation is 21-25 and the close animation is 26-40.

This is all very basic stuff in most event driven prog languages, but I juz couldnt figure out how to do it in flash (mx)!!!
thx in advance!

Memo.

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Animated Buttons...
Hey all,

I have an animated button (a circle graphic) and when someone rolls their mouse over it, I want it to run a short animation, (more specifically I want it to fade in from 0% Alpha to 100% Alpha by tweening, but I know how to do that).

Now, if someone removes the mouse from the designated area, I want the animation to be reversed. IE. As soon as they move their mouse away, I want the circle to fade out again. More specifically, if they move their mouse away in the middle of the animation, I want the animation to go backwards from the frame that they move their mouse.

Does that make sense and is it possible to do that?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I am attempting to create a 3D button.
When the user hovers over the button, I want it to gradually move downwards, so I created a button with a movie clip in the over state that does just that.

My problem however is that as soon as the mouse moves away from the button, it returns back to its position in the up state.
This looks ok, but I'd really like it to move gradually back upwards rather than just snapping back to its original position.

Clearly this is possible in Flash, but it is beyond me!
Can any experts help me out?

I have attached the original file in case this makes no sense!

Thanks very much for your time

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Hello, all....

I am new to this Flash stuff but find it so cool that I can't stand it! Here's my question...
I want to make some buttons that drop down with links to other pages in the site. What's the best way to create them? Are they each separate little movies? Are they one big movie?

Thanks, Tom

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i wanna make a shooting game... i was thinking i could make the people who you kill buttons, so when you click on them it plays "hit" animation... but is there a better way? and i don't even think that way works...

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I need your help guy.
I am trying to create some color boxes that when you roll your mouse over them they will change their color, but in a tweened slow motion. I understand that in order to do that, they would have to be button objects in flash, to track over states and such. I know how to create button symbols and define their different states, but don't know how to create the animation frames in the over stats (that's all i want really)

any help will nbe appreciated

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How To Do Animated Buttons
I'm a big newbie and really want to know how to make animated buttons, not the static ones where you only change one frame for up, over, down and hit
what is the easiest way to do this? do I need to write Action script?

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Alright, i taught myself how to pretty much do flash, im still farley new at it but wanna braoden my knowledge. IM not sure this is the place to come to but it sounds like an ActionScript type of thing.

What im lookin for is like a menu thing... where a box will be either free scrolling on the x access the bar the menu wll be located and when mouse cursor is placed over a button the box will to go it. I have been trying to find some examples but its rather difficult.

If anyone has any idea what im talking about... maybe give me a lil example or even some sites that could help me in the direction im trying to get at.

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.. this is kind of complicated but i think i might be approaching this the hard way:

i want a button t hat when the mouse is over it will have an animated behavior, and that when you move the mouse away it will have an animation to leave it to its original state.

the way im doing it is the next..

1.create a button
2.create a movie clip with the button inside, and so far, the rollover animation, and a loop so that at the end of the movieclip you go back into the part with the gray square behind the button over and over..
3.set the movie clip inside the main movie, with the next code over it:

code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse,true)){
this.play();
}else{
this.stop();
}
}

so that when the mouse gets over the MC/button it will show the rollover animation, the thing is i want to know how to ave a roll off animation (so the white square goes back to the original state, outside the movie).

here it is, the first button, "quienes somos"

http://www.gilvi.com.mx/anvi.html

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Hi, i'm extremely stuck and would appreciate your help. I need to know how I can make a button that I can animate to move around, but still be interactive. I want to be able to roll my mouse over the moving button and then for the 'goto' function to take me to a new frame. As i said I would appreciate any help.

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Can anyone tell me step by step how to make an animated button. To be specific, one that continues to finish its cycle after you take your mouse off of the link. l know how to make a button that changes upon mousing over the link, but HOw does one make a button that continues to complete the animation afterwards..l guess adding a movie to your animation is the answer. How does one do this??
Thanks
lronman

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What's the trick to making buttons on an animated fly-out menu link?

I got the animation to work, and the over/down states of the buttons to show, but I can't get the buttons to link to a frame in the main scene. Is this because the buttons are sitting in a movie clip, and need to be told specifically where to link to?

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I know this may sound silly but i know how to animate a button using the normal procedure. But ony many websites i see when you place your cursor over a button the 'over' section or what seems like it is also animated. So it looks like there is another moving image. Could someone plase tell me a way of doing this, as the buttons seems to move fluid like. If i am explaining it right.

If you don't understand what i mean. Follow the link below and place your cursor over a link and they animate you'll then understand what i mean.

I would love if somebody could help. Have designed a site using flash without much prior knowledge, but this is one i am stuck on.

http://www.templatemonster.com/flash...ates/7758.html

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I know how to make an animated button but I cant figure out how to have an outro animation once you have moved the mouse off the button

I hope that makes sense

Can anyone help

Cheers Max

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I am wondering how i CAN MOTION TWEEN MY BUTTONS, SEE i AM BRINGIN IN MY ARTWORK FROM PHOTOSHOP NO PROBLEMS THERE BUT I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE ARE WAYS OF MAKING MOVIE CLIPS INTO BUTTONS IS THIS POSSIBLE AND IF SO HO CAN I GO ABOUT FINDING OUT.....THANKX

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I posted something here a couple of nites ago about animated buttons as movie clips, as I am using bitmaps I can not shape tween the buttons. I found this website www.derrickborte.com and would appreciate anyone who can suggest how the buttons have been animated I feel that they maynot have been animated in Flash. The buttons that I mean are the main menu ones, they definitly have embosed effects and have either been created in photoshop or a 3D program such as swift 3D...

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I need some help with some animated buttons. I want the button to play an animation when the cusor runs over it, but i also want the animation to play in reverse from the point it was at.
for example the button animation is 10 frames. when the cursor is over the button it plays frames 1-2-3-4-5-6 then the cursor moves of it it playes frames 5-4-3-2-1. If any one can help i would greatly appreciate it

thanks

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Dear Fellows

I want to make an animated button like in this template header

http://www.templatemonster.com/websi...tes/10005.html

i wantt that mouse over, it smoothly changes its color and on mouse out, it goes to its real situation smoothly

Regards
Thank u

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Animated Buttons.. HELP
Okay,

I'm using the tut from gotoAndLearn.com for animated buttons.
I've copied the code exactly... however, it's saying must appear within on handler... and all that.

Code:
home.onRollOver = over;
home.onRollOut = out;
home.buttText.buttonText.text = "Home";

Is the code i'm using....
can ne1 fix it?

Thanks,

M

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I have created 4 buttons with movie clips. I used the tutorial from gotoandlearn. This was fine and the buttons did what I wanted, but now I want to add another command ... once you rollover the button I wanted to add an onrelease .. where it will give the user a selection of two other buttons that will have the same structure as the first buttons ..then an onrelease from these buttons to bring up an external file...... I know that this seems confusing but any help would be appreciated

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hey there!

i'm trying to make a banner that is activated when you move your mouse upon it.

when you go over the banner, the image will fade to 100% and when you move out, the image fades out around 50%

(the banner has 2 links inside too but that's do-able )

how do i create this? cause i tried fixing it with the button-symbol, but you don't have a rollout-function in that one so...

hope you can help me out!
a thanks in advance!

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i'm trying to make a banner that is activated when you move your mouse upon it.

when you go over the banner, the image will fade to 100% and when you move out, the image fades out around 50%

(the banner has 2 links inside too but that's do-able)

how do i create this? cause i tried fixing it with the button-symbol, but you don't have a rollout-function in that one so...

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Hey, I'm new and have some experience with Flash mx 2004, but i'm having trouble figuring out how to make an animated button using the Up over Down Hit feature.

I can make buttons, but i want it so that it plays an animation while the mouse is "Over". It seems that i can only put one frame in the "over" frame. How would I make an animation within that?

Thanks

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You know how if you make a rollover state with an animation, when you roll of the button the animation stops as the the state returns to the normal state? I want to make a button where when you roll off it returns to normal gradually. So either the animation fades out or runs in reverse.