Flash :: Flash 5:Buttons And RollOff Question

Smooth Rolloff(){ Buttons
Currently, I am using the old bulky method of creating a rolloff button with actionscript.

Stop action frame -> Named frame .... Stop action -> Named frame .... Stop Action.

I.e. named frames are Rollon and Rolloff, and I use a hitbox button with actionscript on it to control the button. Now, the problem with this is that when you quickly skip over the button it animates all the way from the rolloff frame to normal. I know some sites, you skip over a button, it just animates slightly, and reverses back to the original frame. I want my buttons to reverse like this.

Mouse Rolloff's - Menu Buttons
i'm relatively new to flash, about 3 months old but i think i'm progressing well. at any rate i need help with something that seems rather simple but i can't figure out on my own.

when i create buttons i'm learning to animate them and stuff and i know how to make a quick animation to the button when you put your mouse over it, but i don't know how to make an animation when you remove your mouse from it.

i.e. if i had a button and i made it change brightness to fulll 100% on mouseover with the gradual motion tween, how could i make it go back down to it's original brightness when you removed your mouse.

thank you for any help you might provide

[CS3] RollOver And RollOff Are Connected With All My Buttons
Hello Friends

I have Roll Over and Roll of commands on all my buttons to where when you roll off of the btn it plays the animation backwards from the frame it was on to make the animation more fluid. However with my current scripting the rollOver and RollOff commands are connected so that if you roll over a btn while another btn is still playing they connect and play together when you roll off the btns.

Here is my current scripting:

Code:
biotext.stop();
biobtn.onRollOver = function():Void
{
rew = false;

biotext.onEnterFrame = function():Void
{
if(rew)
{
if(biotext._currentframe == 1)
{
// remove the enter frame listener
biotext.onEnterFrame = null;

}
else
{
// step one frame back
biotext.prevFrame();

} // end if

}
else
{
// step one frame forth
biotext.nextFrame();

} // end if

}; // end of onEnterFrame

}; // end of onRollOver

biobtn.onRollOut = function():Void
{
rew = true;

}; // end of onRollOut

You can see an example of my problem here in the navigation of my site:
http://mmas.unca.edu:16080/~djratlif/

I need the btns to be treated individually when rolling on and off.

please help mee

thank you

On RollOff? As In Off The Flash Screen
I have complex buttons set up so when you roll off of them there is a slow fade out. The problem is, if someone rolls off the entire flash screen, onto the background part of the browser, the fade-out of the flash buttons just stop because the mouse is past the rollOut box. Is there a way to tell the buttons to keep going even if the mouse rolls of the flash page?

Flash Nav Tree Rolloff?
How to make an array disappear when user rolls off primary button and/or array itself?

http://www.papoosecreek.com/index.asp

The web site page above is all Flash. I have created a movie holding the nav. It contains 6 nav buttons and their corresponding arrays (which are groups of other nav buttons). If one 'rolls on' any of the 6 buttons, those buttons will 'goTo' display their corresponding array on the timeline.

This issue is that I want the arrays to stop displaying once the user has 'rolled off', but if I use an 'on rolloff (goTo frame1)' the main 6 buttons won't display their arrays. If I try it on the array buttons, there are other complications (arrays go away, etc.).

I tried creating an invisible button (as large as an array) to lay under or over the array with a 'rolloff (goTo)', but if it's placed under the array it doesn't work, and if it's over it the individual array buttons won't work.

What to do?

My action scripting skill is minimal (but I got this far). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Flash Nav Tree Rolloff?
http://www.papoosecreek.com/index.asp

The web site page above is all Flash. I have created a movie holding the nav. It contains 6 nav buttons and their corresponding arrays (which are groups of other nav buttons). If one 'rolls on' any of the 6 buttons, those buttons will 'goTo' display their corresponding array on the timeline.

This issue is that I want the arrays to stop displaying once the user has 'rolled off', but if I use an 'on rolloff (goTo frame1)' the main 6 buttons won't display their arrays. If I try it on the array buttons, there are other complications (arrays go away, etc.).

I tried creating an invisible button (as large as an array) to lay under or over the array with a 'rolloff (goTo)', but if it's placed under the array it doesn't work, and if it's over it the individual array buttons won't work.

What to do?

My action scripting skill is minimal (but I got this far). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Rewind When Rolloff Mc
hi

please could someone help me with this as i'm pretty sure it can be done! i have a series of mclips.. . when i rollover i want them to play, when i rolloff i want the movie clip where ever it is to automatically play backwards from that point back to the first frame.. .

many thanks in advance.. .

tasvin

MC As A Button Rolloff
I have a MC that has an animation for the 'Over" and a roll off animation label: "Out"

where do i attach the code that makes this all work?

Do I need an invisible "hit" button?

Menu RollOff Problems
Hello,
For some reason I am having trouble getting my menu to work.
I have a movie clip, that contains all the menu stuff. On the first frame in the MC, there is a blank stop action, and on the second frame all the contents and graphics for the menu.
the menu background is a button, so when you roll off it, you go back to frame 1, and every thing disappears. But for some reason the roll off is really temperamental and dosn't work if you move the mouse to fast or sweep over all the menu items then roll off...

does anyone know why this is happening?

Cheers,
Kaan.

Rollon Rolloff Sensitivity
Hi all, well I have pretty much figured out a problem I was having on the link below with the main menu bookmark appearing and disappearing when the book is open, but still have a small issue and was wondering if anybody knows if it is possible to adjust the sensitivity of a mouse rollover and rolloff sensitivity. If you open the book to any page on the link below you will see when you move your mouse towards the bookmark on the left that the bookmark will appear on top and when you rolloff it will disappear behind. The problem is that sometimes if you do this with any speed or sometimes slow that it does not disappear like it should. Id was done using an invisible button, when rolled over I used goto a different frame loading a new mc on top and when rolled off I used goto beginning frame. Any ideas???

http://www.viewpointgraphics.biz/Samples/GolfIntl.html

Rollover / Rolloff Button...?
hi

i need help with making a button...that when i rollover it plays a movie and then when i rolloff another movie plays..

how do i do this

thx....

Clear Textbox On Rolloff..?
Hi again, i'd just like to start off saying that these forums are super-helpful

I'm having trouble with textboxs. I have text loaded randomly from a .txt file on the rollover of a button:

Code:
on (rollOver) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("txtfile.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(OK) {
if (OK) {
myText.Text = this["text"+(Math.floor(Math.random()*4)+1)];
}
};
}
But i need myText box to clear once the mouse is rolled off. So...i just thought it would be something simple like:

Code:
on(rollOut) {
myText = "";
{
But, it doesn't work at all. What's my problemo?

Rollover / Rolloff Button...?
hi

i need help with making a button...that when i rollover it plays a movie and then when i rolloff another movie plays..

how do i do this

thx....

A Rolloff Button Effect
I pretty much know how to create and effect for when I roll over a button, for example (making the button rise slowly on a rollover) what I don't know how to do is make that button return to the original state with the same effect, lowering slowly
(without just appearing there)

Mc Continues To Play After Rolloff On Buton?
what would the script be to continue a mc to finish its
loop while a mouse does a roll off,

(i.e. i have a fading mc that loops from 100%alpha to about
10% alpha while on a rollover in a button. when i roll off the button mc stops on roll off, but i dont want it to continue looping after rolloff, just the finishing loop,.)

visit http://www.aedesigns.8k.com to view buttons. just rollover
contacts or something, and get the example

thank you

Inertia Scroll With Rollover And Rolloff
i'm trying to create a horizontal scroller with inertia whose speed coresponds to mouse position(further left or right the faster you go)I know this is not unusual but i want it to start up when rolled over and slowly roll to a stop when rolled off. I have not seen even one example anywhere that has the rolloff. Any samples or advice would be appreciated! Thanks

Button Rolloff Color Change
Could anyone please tell me the actionscript for causing a color change on a rolloff? I like the way the buttons work on http://www.vladimirhorowitzmusic.com/ If you click on the drop-down box for the menu, the buttons have a quick change of color when you rolloff the button. How is this done?

Why Is There No Rolloff State In Button Symbols?
Here is a good Sunday morning ponder over coffee question. Why is there no rolloff state in button symbols. I know you can get rolloffs to work in Flash, but since so many people will be using rolloffs, it just seemed to make sense to make it more efficent with the built in feature of it.. They caved on the spellchecker, you never know.

Moojamboo

[CS3] Movie Clip Rollover Rolloff Question
hello all, new to the forum.

I recently started a new project, where I made a 3d product box (in 3d max) and exported the movie clip into flash. What I would like to happen is have the clip stay stagnent on the screen until you scroll over the clip. Then it will simply play the animation (the box circles once). I know how to get this to happen using a button, but when the mouse leaves the button the clip stops abruptly. I would like it to continue until it finishes the rotation. I know there is a way to accomplish this as I have seen it done using action script.

Would there be any way that some of you guys could give me a quick help to get this thing running? I know that it pertains to the rollover and the rolloff actionscript commands. Thanks!

Copies Of Flash Buttons - Edit Each One? How To Edit Multiple Copied Buttons
I am creating a website using a flash template, my first venture into flash. The side links are all flash, where I had to add about 5 additional buttons. So I copied one of the buttons and pasted multiple copies of it. I was able to reposition each one correctly so they are move correctly. But I can't figure out how to edit each one individually? Any change I make to one, is made to all of them as well.

I am using Flash MX 2004 and any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!!

Pete

Flash Buttons That Navigate To Html Files In Same Folder As Flash Movie?
I'm completely new to Flash and AS3.......

however, i've managed to build a simple "intro" flash movie that has buttons on it that need to navigate to non-flash, DWCS3 based site files.

when i go into the button in flash, if i select text in the button there is a spot in the properties panel that allows for a URL link...i enter the name of the html file but it doesn't work......but this URL property field is not available to the entire button....

so i started looking at AS because i'm pretty sure i need to use events and event listeners....BUT all of the tutorials only cover getting an external URL or linking to a frame within a flash movie......none of them cover linking to an existing HTML file in the same folder.......(ie., to access the meat of the website through the flash intro buttons....)

help?

the movie is at www.methods.com/msite07/site07_intro_more.html if you'd like to take a look....the animated buttons need the link functionality.......

Flash Click To Activate, Dreamweaver Flash Buttons Problem
I followed the code to fix the click to activate problem on all my sites all but one works flawlessly, this site used the Dreamweaver embeded flash button objects, so you must double click each one to use to get to a page, I put the code on all the buttons but only one, the last button would show up how do I use that code for all the buttons at once just changing the filenames

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent" style="width: 122px; height: 70px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new FlashObject("home.swf", "animationName", "122", "70", "8", "#FFFFFF");
fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
fo.addParam("quality", "high");
fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
fo.addParam("loop", "false");
fo.write("flashcontent");
</script>
Buttons are home.swf, Books.swf, you get the point...

Flash Banner , Flash Buttons And Html Content
Hi!

I am working on this web project that needs to be like this :

Flash banner on the top, flash buttons under the banner and html content(the rest)

I have finished the banner and the buttons but i don't know how to make the rest (html content).

If anybody knows which software i need to use and what actions should i put to the buttons, please help!!!

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

[F8]Buttons, Buttons, Buttons Dynamic Text?
Hi

I've got a set buttons that are different instances of the same mc. I'd like to make labels for each button but I don't want to have to duplicate all the buttons in the library and add the labels separately.

I think I need to to this with Dynamic text but that as far as I've got with the searches I've done on Google.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Flash Buttons Linking Corresponding Flash Pages.
I'm using Flash Pro 8, and Dreamweaver 8. I'm new to both, so I figure a good way to learn is by a template and dissecting it to learn it...

I've downloaded a template, and have nearly completed editing each template page, but I can't find any tutorial on how to make the buttons load the corresponding flash page.

Example, I press the "contact" button on the main flash page, and it loads the "contacts" flash page.

So pretty much, I have the all templates edited (pictures, background, colors, and text changed). I ALSO need to know what to do from there to get all the swf's working together. I know you have to convert them from fla to swf to import them into Dreamweaver, but that's really about it.....

I didn't know whether to put this into the Dreamweaver forum, or the Flash forum, so I picked this one cause it said "flash site design"...hopefully it's the right one! Hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction!!!

Thanks in advance!

Nate

Flash Buttons With Connected Animations In Flash MX
I'm having a problam in Flash MX.
i want to make an oval shaped button that moves from the left to tehe right on the movie, but if you hit it, it must slowly go down to the bottom of the Flash movie, and maybe if it sinks, also a color change or something.

Please answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flash 8 Buttons Not Showing In Flash 7 Player
Whenever I set the publish settings to flash 8 in order to take advantage of runtime filters my buttons are disappearing completely on the flash 7 player. Even if the filter is on the over frame, the whole button disappears.

Actually, now that I look at it, publishing to Flash 8 is making all my text unviewable with a flash 7 player. Wassup?

Flash Buttons
I have built a Web Site with flash buttons....it all works perfectly. When you scroll over the button, images and text pop up below. The images and text also pop up when i scroll through the area where they are supposed to show when button is scroll on. Is there anyway to prevent this?

Thanks

Flash Buttons....
Here's my problem, I created some shapes, grouped them,turned it into Symbol/button. I added 'rollover effects', then I used the GetURL action to make them linkable buttons. When I preview/or view my .swf file, my buttons don't work. The effects work, but they don't go to the URL. I know I'm missing something really stupid...:P If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it!!

Flash Buttons
ok so i made a button and all that and when i click it opens the page i have it linked to in a seperate window.
but on my site all my other links i have them open in the middel in a inline frame so i was wondering how in flash i can make it so that when i click the button it will load the page in the center inlineframe like all the other html pages?

Flash Buttons
Can you tell me how to get a button in flash mx to become an extension so I can install it in dreamweaver as a flash button?

Help With Flash Buttons
Could someone tell me how to make a normal button (a step by step introduction would be nice). I studied books i create films but i cant make a normal button because i can't somegow use anywhere onmouseevent action i'ts always gray. Coul'd someone help me?

Flash Buttons
Hi, I am designing a website in Dreamweaver. & I want to add buttons -created in Flash5. How do I use the getURL command that will work in Dreamweaver?

Could Anyone Help With Flash Buttons?
I am designing a website in Dreamweaver. & I want to add buttons -created in Flash5. How do I use the getURL command that will work in Dreamweaver?

I have used frames in Dreamweaver. I want the Flash5 button in left frame. & When I will click the button I want to load a new page in the right frame.
I have used getURL command. But it won't load the new page in the right frame.
I put the framename in the second argument of getURl command.. but it is still not working.
(Is it necessary to 'include' html file in flash?)

Flash Buttons From Mac
Flash buttons work when previewed from Dreamweaver MX running on Win NT but the exact same file tells me "page not found" when trying to preview it from Dreamweaver MX running on Mac OSX.

I've migrated my site over to Mac OSX from Win NT. All of my flash buttons that link to other files (.jpg, .doc, or .htm) no longer work when I preview the pages in Mac Internet Exloper. The files I have live right now work fine in Mac IE, but they were loaded to our server from Win NT.

here's a link to one of my pages with the buttons.
http://www.airforce.com/thunderbirds/library2002.htm

%$@%# Flash Buttons
Hi
please help me.
I have put animation clips in a button at rollover stage.
they work fine, but there are these "hotspots" in the area the animation should play in, in other words, if I move the mouse over the area where the animation takes place, it acts like I mouse overed the button wich results in the animation taking place.

I am sooo frustrated, please check it out. heres the link
tell me what u think

http://www.xon.co.za/louis/

Flash Buttons
What I have in Flash is a square that when you roll over changes colour, from orange to green. The background colour of the flash movie is red. Also when you move over the sqaure, soe text changes colour from red to black, making it visible now onte red background. However you an roll yur mouse over where the text is located and it acts as part of the button. I don't want the text to be the hit area, just the aquae, however now matter what I try, to change the text it has to be part of the button and able to move your mouse over and work like the square asa button. I just want te square to be be the button and the text to change, and not be able to roll over the text and it acts like a button.

Cheers

Flash Nav Buttons
hello! wondered if anyone had any ideas why IE6 on a pc doesn't display flash buttons that I have used as nav? on a mac using IE6 they show up fine, but not on a mac using IE5...

thanks!

Flash Buttons
Hi everybody! I would like to ask for help. I am a little unexperienced with flash, but I would like to make some flash buttons for my web. Like e.g. http://www.flashbuttons.com Can anybody help me where I can find some good tutorial how to make them? I tried to find it here but maybe I am blind. Thank you for any help or comment!

PS: I am using Flash MX.

Help With Flash Buttons...
I need to make some flash buttons for my website, but dont know how to use flash at all... I have Flash MX, can somebody please tell me how to make some cool buttons? I know there are some tutorials out there, but i didnt get too much out of them, i was able to make a button, but didnt really understand how to do it, and it was really crappy looking.

Flash Buttons
Hello,
I have experience with Flash, and in creating buttons. However, i have had no particular luck in doing the following:
--Creating a button where once it is OFF FOCUS, it can play some animation (most probably the reverse of what happens on a MOUSE OVER function). eg: on mouse over a line fades in at the bottom of some text, and on mouse out the line fades out.

If someone out there can give me some assistance it would be highly appreciated. i hope the above is clear.

Regards,
AK

Flash Buttons.com Help
I have made flash buttons using flashbuttons.com for my webpage. When I insert the HTML into the page, a white box appears where the buttons should be. In the pre-made HTML, for the location area they have the filname there (Radar.swf) but in numerous HTML help sources, it says I need to find the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the flash buttons, how can I find this to make my buttons succesful. PS: Tell me if you like the banner for my SOCOM site.

Flash MX Buttons
Well...I have a veryyyyy big problem...I have a flash movie that contains a ScrollPane component. When i try to load into that scrollpane another flash movie, i don`t know why, but the buttons are invisible...And i have to mention that this is not happening with all the sub-movies. The buttons are: Up - Static text field; Over: Movie; Down: Static text; Hit: filled square.
I have this problem only when i upload the site on the server; when i`m testing the site on my PC it is working perfectly (using IIS).
I didn't find nobody to have this problem...Maybe i`m doing something wrong when i am designing the buttons. If there is somebody who wants to help me please reply to this post, or mail me at motanu2u@yahoo.com, and i'll send to him the .fla file and the sitea adress. Please, i really need help...

Flash Buttons
I am trying to make an animated button similar to the ones created at www.flashbuttons.com. I know basically what I want for this first test, as seen in the attachment (I know it looks like crappy quality, but that's because it's a gif). Can anyone help me play this animation when I move my mouse "over" the button?

Flash Buttons
http://www.swiftdev.com/ ok i know how to mkae buttons but how do i make the button have an animation after i take the cursor out, look at those nav buttons you can scroll past them all and it looks sweet. im not sure how thats done in flash, help me understand the gosu buttons. thanks

Flash Mx - Buttons
hi,
i created some buttons in flash to be used in a website in dreamweaver the problem is, i can link them to the work but it opens in a seperate window, what i want is to target it so it appears in an i-frame. i was wondering could any one help, give me a kick in the right direction where im going wrong.

Thanks.

On/Off Buttons In Flash
Hi,

I would like to design a sound button for my Flash website that basically works like this: When the user first clicks on the button, the sound loop that is assigned to that button will play and the button needs to change to a Stop button with the text "STOP". How can I do this? I think I'd have to insert two pairs of frames (meaning I'd have to have an Over state, a Down state and a Hit State twice)

Thanks in advance,