Flash :: Flash Movie Jumps When Mouse Over Menu Buttons

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

Infinite Menu With Buttons Instead Of Mouse
Hey everyone. So I'm down to the very last revision of a site I'm designing, and they want to change the infinite menu to use left and right buttons, rather than where the mouse is to make the thing scroll.

How do I translate this...

onClipEvent (load)
{
xcenter=400;
speed=1/20;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
var distance=_root._xmouse-xcenter;
_x+=(distance*speed);
if (_x > 0) _x=-800;
if (_x < -800) _x=0;
}

...onto a left and right button that make it scroll the appropriate direction?

Could use this asap.

Thanks a ton

Evan

Menu Buttons Move Out When Mouse Is Close?
does anybody know what AS i need to make a menu with buttons that slide out when the mouse gets close to them? also just the opposite when the mouse moves away. i would like them to kinda bounce also. like when they move out they go lets say 50 pixels left and then finely rest at about 45 er so. ive tried different things ive found on FK but cant seem to get it working right. now ive removed all my as from the project and am waiting for a better idea. can anybody help?

Movie Jumps
Hi Guys,

I made the movie in the Swish 2.0 progam

Then I opened it in the FLASH MX...

Now..I published the setting in GIF but when it plays

The Pic Jumps..Why is this? and How can I Make the Pic Stay on the Document without it moving up and down when it loops over..

??

Movie Clip Jumps
i have a movie clip at the bottom of my .fla which i want to go round in a continous loop - at the moment it jumps when it gets to the end!?

any ideas?

i have attatched the fla although i am working on mac, so will attatch the swf aswell if i can.

cheers,
sadie

Movie Quality Jumps?
Hi all,

My movie is doing something really strange and i have no idead why is doing it. the movie jumps from high quality to low quality (for no reason coz not coded) and then back to high quality... and it keeps doing that...
does anyone knows why it's doing this?

thx

Button Jumps To Next Frame In Movie When Clicked Twice
Hi, i have a small problem,
i have a button in level 0 with the code:

on (release) {
with (_level1) gotoAndPlay();
with (_level2) gotoAndPlay(7);
}

It loads movies into level 1 and 2, the problem i am having is that when the button is clicked twice it will jump to the next frame in the movie i.e when clicked once it jumps to frame 7 as it is supposed to do but then its clicked again and jumps to frame 8

any help appreciated thanks.

Unload A Movie Clip As The Play Head Jumps To Another Frame
Hey everyone:

The movie clip is called "theScene" and I have it created on Frame 60 of a movie clip when a button triggers the playhead to jump and stop at Frame 60. However, upon leaving that frame, it will not disappear, so I want to unload it upon leaving that frame.

I put in the following code across all frames of the movie clip in its own layer:

Code:

if (this._currentframe !=60)
{
theScene.unloadMovie();
}
This does infact unload the movie if I put it in the keyframe with the code that creates it (on Frame 60), but it will not unload it upon moving the play head to another Frame, i.e. clicking a button to jump that movie clip to Frame 50, 70, 100... whatever.

I added a trace(this._currentframe), however, it will only trace Frame 1, and never runs again, how do I get it to run everytime the playhead moves?

Thanks,
Adam

How To Disable Mouse Buttons In A Movie?
Hi

I'm trying to do some rollover effect. I want that the rollover effect should not be disrupted even if the user presses any of the mouse button. Is there any way of disabling the mouse buttons in a movie?

Resize Menu Closer The Mouse Gets To Movie?
hi, i'm working on a project where the menu of the flash movie in will get larger the closer the mouse gets to it.

i've been going thru my actionscripting books trying everything that seems logical, and i'm stumped.

help!

Flash Video Jumps In IE
Hi,

I am having problems with the flash on this page:
http://www.elegantwedding.ca/wedding_news.php

It is a flash video, that jumps out of location in Internet Explorer but its ok in Firefox.

Any ideas?

Help With Flash Page Jumps Using Iframes
I made my flash navigation system, and it works fine. im trying to get the links to jump to the different iframes on my page. I named each iframe so when i click on the links in my flash navigation menu, it will load that iframe. but my only problem is, when i click each button it will load each iframe but wont to a page jump right to the iframe. i know you can do page jumps in html, but i want to do it in flash. can somebody help me. heres my website www.legacyarts.net/prince_of_production. You will see the flash movie at the top right side of my site.

_man.onRelease = function() {
getURL("http://legacyarts.net/prince_of_production/Management/", "my_iframe6");
};

i already have this now how do i get the web page to move to where the iframe is located at on my website.

Movie Menu Into Buttons
I recently acquired an old boxedart template for a flash site and the only thing I'm using is the menu system.

I've imported the menu into the library and placed in on the stage etc but when I went in to add some action script for each down action for the mouse i found that the menu was not made up of buttons with 4 keyframes like usual but the "buttons" were actually movies... I can change the text but I can't change the buttons so I can add actionscript to tell the movie where to go to on the click...

can anybody help me out with this?

I have a small screenie of what I'm talking about but apparently you can't upload them on this board...

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Steamed

Flash Jumps On Html Page Changes - No Frames
I am just building a small site that uses dreamweaver layouts insted of frames. I got a flash bar on top of every page and of course it restarts everytime a link is taken.

Is there anything i can do about it? Either Actionscript or any html solution?

I wouldnt want to settle for frames since this would screw with the scolling. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.

PS: I know this isnt the first time asked for sure.. but the search tool on the forum wont work somehow and I need this asap in order to move on.

Thanks in advance.

Flash Player 10 Problem: Size Jumps Around
I'm seeing a problem with the latest Flash Player WIN 10,0,12,36
using FireFox 3.0.5 in W2K SP4 with the latest updates.

When trying to watch a particular Youtube video, the video size jumps back
and forth between 50% and 100%. Note that the video itself is not stuttering,
just the size. With FireFox, it affects both normal and full screen mode, while
when I try viewing the same video in IE6, it only shows up in full screen mode
(not normal mode, for some reason.)

Also, installing Flash Player 9 makes the problem go away.

It doesn't affect all Youtube videos, just some. I can post a link
to the youtube video in question if that's appropriate.

Menu, Buttons & Movie Clips HELP
Ok people,
Have tried everything..Here is my problem!

Im working on a website for my business (trying to start it) as i just finished uni. I want my portfolio section to have a horizontal scroller with no button (direction of scroll depending on position of cursor) and with thumbnails of work. So once you click on the thumbnail, a bigger version or more info pops up.

Im using Flash MX, got the horizontal scroll in a mask (all buttons [i.e. thumbnail images] but i attach the "on release gotoand play etc"... but when i click on it, nothing happens.

In other words, can you have a button within a movie clip that sits in a mask??? Cos it aint happenin for me! gettin desperate! PLEASE HELP ME!

if you want to see what i mean, go to the portfolio section - video/dvd section and try clickin on a thumbnail image:

http://www.macmediacreations.com.au/MMCfinal/index.html

Cheers
Macario

Popup Menu Buttons To Call Another Movie
I actually just began learning Flash about three days ago so please be patient with my question(s)

So here it is... I just fnished making a simple Pop-Up Menu but now I want to learn how to use these pop-up buttons to call another movie.

Is there a way (a generic action script) that I can imbed an action to these pop-up menu buttons so that I can load another movie on to the main site?

Right now.... the pop-up menus are their own "movies" and I can only see the extra popping buttons when I preview it. I don't know how to program these pop-up buttons so that upoon clicking each one... another movie will show up.

I'm pretty much trying to make a flash site for my portfolio. So my goal is placing a link on to my pop-up menu buttons so that after clicking on them... the gallery part will load on to the main site instead on another window.

Can anoyone help? Thanks everyone!

Menu Help - Buttons On Movie Dont Work?
Hi,
Great site here, the tutorials have really helped me.

I have a problem with the following FLA file.HERE
I cannot get any of the text in the drop down menu bar to link to an html page.
As you can see in the first link - the driver, under team, i have converted it into a button and added what i believe to be the correct actionscript, but it still doesnt work!?

If someone could help that would be very much appreciated, the menu is *almost* finished, but pretty useless without the links!.

Here is the file.HERE

Many thanks for any help.

Drop Down Menu (buttons Inside A Movie Clip)
Hi i'm trying to recreate this great nav that i swa a t www.pullcom.com.I hav got the drop down sort of working but when you click on it too much it gets confused and doesn't close.ethe button is inside a movie clip and the sub nav is inside another movie clip.I would really appreciate if you can help.Its for a major uni assignment thanks.

How To Get Sub-menu Buttons To Play Frames Back In The Main Movie?
I have a movie menu that has a few sub-buttons embedded in it and I added scripting that tells the buttons to go back and play labeled frames in the original movie, but it doesn't work. I have the right scene and frame label selected, but it just repeats the embeded button animation. How can i get it to go out and play the right frames?

No Middle Mouse Buttons In Flash
Is there possibility to catch middle mouse buttons (MMB) clicks and drags or RMB events ?
This Adobe boys have "submit feature request" web page, but It looks not searchable.
I tried their evaluation version and I'm pretty disappointed.
Flash API is probably designed only for LMB and I would really like to now, if they plan
to make it properly.

I understand that capturing RMB in web browsing is not recommended, but MMB is not the case.
Especially, when Flash can run standalone localy from hardisk !!!

I would like to know answer from Adobe, but I found only this forum. Please, let me know where
I can ask ( I have evaluation free demo of CS3 )

Thanks.

Flash Menu With Follow Mouse (and Stop)
i need help to do this
menu
I already did something similar but i can't make the "pointer" stop whe it's get to the end.
someone please hepl me!.
i raelly apreciate it.
i'm looking for a master XD

anybody there?

PD: Excuse my poor english

How To Access Mouse Events With Buttons/movieclips In Flash CS3
So, can someone tell me how to access mouse events with buttons/movieclips in Flash CS3? I used to use Flash 5 and it was really easy, but Flash CS3 seems completely different, and I'm sure it's easy too, I just don't know how...

Thanks,
Paul

I'm Using A Different Mouse Cursor For A Flash Menu (rest Of Site Is Html)
i'm using a different mouse cursor for a flash menu (rest of site is html)

I've got the graphic I want following the mouse around as the new mouse icon/pointer but now I want it, IF you should leave the flash menu area the mouse icon goes to frame 2 and plays (the animation is of the mouse icon dissappearing)

then when the user comes back to the flash area the mouse icon returns.

please post the script as I am not a programmer.

PS this is what I have so far on my mousemovieclip:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this.startDrag(true);
Mouse.hide();

this.swapDepths(6);

}
I'm using swapdepths 6 because I have buttons that swap depths under my mouse icon from 1 to 2.

-Line

[Flash MX] Rollout Problem When Moving The Mouse To Fast Over Buttons
Hello,

I made a menu in Flash MX with three buttons below eachother (rollover and rollout), and i have a problem with this menu.

When i go to fast over the buttons with the mouse everything gets mixed up. The rollout animation starts when you are rolling over, with the mouse on the third button it shows the animation of the first button etc.

When you go over the button's slowly it works fine....

I looked on several forums for a solution but still didn't find any

Can someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong and explain to me how to do this right?

I put the files online at:

http://members.home.nl/r.spekle/Menu.swf
http://members.home.nl/r.spekle/Menu.fla

Thank's

RiAnimator

Flash MX AS Question: Fading Buttons And Mouse Interaction [renamed]
Hey guys im making my portfolio in flash. And the designing goes oke etc, but now im at the programming part, and thats not what im good at.

http://www.wiking-clan.nl/peter/flash/site1.html
http://www.wiking-clan.nl/peter/flash/site1.fla

If you mouse your cursor over the most right (black) button you see "contact" fading in, thats oke, and when you click on it a big orange shape slides in, some text is needed to put in here.

But!

When you move the mouse of the button the orange shape slides back.

So my question is, how can I make the orange shape stay while the mouse is of the button? And when the mouse moves out of the contact button and over another it should fade in that name to, (like it does now).

I hope i make my self clear and that you guys and girls have some good advice for me.

Flash Menu Buttons
Can I control the content of a main html frame with buttons on a swf menu?

I've been looking for some tutorials or discussions on it but I didn't find any...

What I'm trying to do , is to have a swf menu on a top frame that controls the contents of the main frame.

Maybe it is really simple and I'm too thick ;(

I suspect it has to to with the get_url action but I must be missing some type of additional variable...

Thank you

Flash Menu Buttons Can You Please Help?
Hi there
can somebody help me to make buttons in flash ?
i have tried but is not working

i like to make a roll over buttons with
multiple links like a Menus-Hierarchical
or drop down menu

this the address
http://www.livingmedia.co.uk/dev/

thanks

Help Linking Flash Menu Buttons Within The Same Swf
Can someone please help!!!

I need help linking flash menu buttons to different parts within the main flash website. The dropdown menu is an extrernal swf.

I've tried to follow a lot of tutorials on this, but the buttons dont seem to work.

Please help, and thanks in advance!

Flash Drop Down Menu Buttons
I was under the impression that Flash allowed one to place buttons within buttons. Basically I am trying to create a simple drop down navigation menu. A simple horizontal bar with four buttons that change color and drop down menus as the viewer scrolls over the buttons. I would then like the drop down text titles to change color as the viewer scrolls over the individual items on the drop down menu. When the viewer clicked on the title ("down" position) it would once again change color. Thank you.

Flash Menu In DW, How Do I Link The Buttons?
Hi there !
I'm having this problem with a site I'm creating.. in DW. But I'm making a flash menu that's suppose to be in my DW-site. And the menu looks like this: the buttons are coming in from the right side (in the left frame) and then they bumb once and then they stop, that's when I want them to be clickable.

But HOW do I do to make the links go to the right page, such as "home" or "about me" ? I wanna be able to click on the buttons and then the page should show up in the mainFrame.

Buttons Not Working In Flash Menu
The never-ending Flash News menu project is giving me problems again...

Please view:
flash menu

The best way I can describe the problem is that the "Read More" buttons appear to be on a lower layer but they are not.

There's a lot of clips/etc to the file so I am not sure where to start with providing AS/Scene Structure. I will of course provide that upon request, just let me know about what area you need clarification / source information for.

Flash Menu Buttons Flicker When Pressed
I created a menu from an image that I sliced up in Photoshop CS2 then took those images into flash 8 and created a rollover effect then took those buttons and put them into a webpage to create a menu.
The problem is that when I run the webpage and press on the any of the menu flash buttons all the buttons disapear and all you see are black boxes where the buttons were and then the buttons re-apear. It looks terrible. Is there anyway to smooth out the process?
Thank You

Adding Menu Buttons To A Flash Template
I have a flash template that has 4 buttons in the menu. I need to add 4 more and I can't seem to get them to work. As you click on each button the background moves from left to right. There is one keyframe that has the actions to control the menu. It reads like this...

if (_root.link == 2 || _root.link == 4) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 0, -770, 2, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 770, 0, 2, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 439, 501, 1, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 439, 501, 1, true);
}
if (_root.link == 3) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 0, -770, 2, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 770, 0, 2, true);
}
if (_root.link == 1 and _root.oldlink != 3) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_x", Regular.easeOut, -770, 0, 1, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 0, 770, 1, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 501, 439, 2, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 501, 439, 2, true);
}
if (_root.link == 1 and _root.oldlink == 3) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_x", Regular.easeOut, -770, 0, 2, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_x", Regular.easeOut, 0, 770, 2, true);
}
}
//
function moveBgr2() {
if (_root.link == 3) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 501, 439, .5, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 501, 439, .5, true);
}
if (_root.oldlink == 3) {
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr1, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 439, 501, .5, true);
var tweenX = new Tween(page1.bgr2, "_y", Regular.easeOut, 439, 501, .5, true);
}

I'm wondering what the numbers shown in red mean? They don't seem to be spots on the timeline. I'm pretty sure I need to change the first line of code to read...

if (_root.link == 2 || _root.link == 8)

...but there's more to it to get it to work. PLEASE HELP!! I'm going crazy trying to figure this out!!

Flash Menu, Moving And Overlapping Buttons
hi folks,

what I am dealing with currently is that I would like to create a menu quite similar to the one on this website: http://www.milla.de/dbmilla/flash/millaFlash.html

the only difference to what I'd like to have is, that I want it to move according to the position of the mouse.

now here are my questions:
how can it be done that objects moving to the background really appear behind other buttons and do not overlap those that are currently in the foreground. if I animated them on seperate layers those appearing on top would always stay on top, right? how can they disappear behind others?

secondly I'd like to know how I can make them move according to the mouse position. maybe something similar to the movements of the menu on wangbars website http://www.wangbar.co.uk , except that I would not want them to be so to say on one geometrical layer.

I hope I was able to formulate clearly what I am looking for. If I unfortunately couldn't explain my thought so that you see a clear image of it please don't hesitate to say so.

thanks in advance for your help!

regards

Flash Menu Buttons And User Defined Variables
Okay--maybe somebody can help me on this bugger. My brain is fried over it. I will email the fla file and a giant cookie to anyone who can help. I have two issues for a flash navigation menu that contraols a non-flash page:

1)I want to show the current page as "active" by altering the corresponding MC. I am trying to reference instance names of seprate mc's (totally seperate, not duplicates) in order to change their appearance according their state (active, as in the HTML page it is pointing to is active VS. inactive). I have 12 mcs named mc1-mc12. Each mc has a button inside. The code for the MC is:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
skal = 0;
}
OnClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (skal ==1){
_xscale = _xscale+(150-_xscale)/3;
_yscale = _yscale+(150-_yscale)/3;
}
if (skal ==0){
_xscale = _xscale+(100-_xscale)/10;
_yscale = _yscale+(100-_yscale)/10;
}
if (skal ==3){
_xscale = 150;
_yscale = 150;
}
}
The code for the button in the mc is:

Code:
1 on (rollOver, dragOver){
2 skal = 1;
3 }
4 on (rollOut, dragOut){
5 if (Active ==1){
6 skal = 3;
7 }else {
8 skal = 0;
9 }
10 }
11 on(release) {
12 Active = 1;
13 GetURL("help.htm","_self");
14 }
Basically, the buttons expand and contract as you roll over them and link to a specific URL. I would like to address the problem of indicating which page on the nav menu the user is currently visiting. My idea was to insert these lines between line 13 and 14 of the button:

Code:
tellTarget(mc1){
Active = 0;
}
//repeat for each button instance name
Each button would have to be addressed so that when you click on a button, it sets the variable "Active" to 1 for the button you clicked and 0 for the rest of the buttons.
Basically, the button is supposed to freeze at _xscale = 150 until another button on the menu is pressed.

It's not working. Is there a beter way to do this? I just want the button to stick out to make it pbvious that that is the page they are looking at.

2)My bigger problem arrose when I was told to nix the frames on the website. Now when a button is clicked, it goes to a new page with the same swf file on it, but it reloads the file. Is there a way to prevent reload and allow it to maintain it's state whil the even when the page changes?

The beginings of the menu are on (The page is in SERIOUS overhaul mode, so pardon the ugliness) this link still uses frames. I have not uploaded the non frames version yet, but the problem is easy to visualize...the movie retarts when you nav to a different page:
http://www.themitchellcentre.ab.ca/T...e/testpage.htm

Thanks for any help.

PS--I tried everything to make the individual buttons stick out, I tried making the text dymanic and chaniging the color, I tried stopping th emovie, I tried, all I could think of, but nothing worked while maintaining the rollover movement. Thanks.

http://www.taigraham.com

Email my personal account

How Do You Stop Flash Animation & Allow Menu Buttons To Work
A site I'm designing in Flash 8 opens with a Flash animation which is followed by a three-button menu. I tried actionscripting "stop ();" on the last frame of the animation and put an instance of a button on the same frame (different layer) with this code:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(280);
}

as I want the button to trigger a small animation of its own beginning in the next frame. However, I get this error message:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Work button, frame=279:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

I don't understand this because the button is an instance I pulled in from the library which I want triggered by a click of the mouse.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks!

Flash Forms - Dropdown Menu And Radio Buttons
there are plenty of tutorials out there for flash email forms with input text fields, but does anybody know how to create a form including dopdown menus and radio buttons that you can actually submit through php?

Java Script Mouseover Menu Buttons Hidden Behind Flash
Hello All, I hope someone can help with this, it is driving me crazy.

I have a page where I am using a flash movie on as well as JavaScript Navigation for the menus.

The problem I am having is the menu that is produced from the JavaScript is hidden behind the flash movie on the page.

You can see an example of what I am talking about at…

http://www.isaid.com/recon/index.html

The three links right above the flash movie have a pull down menu attached to them but you can not see it because it is opening behind the flash.

If you go to http://www.isaid.com/recon/index2.html

You will see that I placed a few line breaks before the flash and now you can see the menu.

Is there a way I can get the menu to open on top of the flash?????

Thanks in advance for any help!

Rick

Cant Figure Out How To Create Drop Down Menu And Use Flash Buttons (Urgent)
I have been working on a project for a client and cant figure out how to keep my java dropdown and flash mouse overs at the same time. I thought about slicing button in half where the bottom part of the button would still contain the java for the dropdown menu, and at the stop of the button, keep that in flash, but i do not know how to have java tell the flash to start playing the animation on click.

Then there may be a easier way to do this, I would apreciate any help on this subject, you can view the link to get a better understanding of what im talking about, if you highlight the first button home, you will see the animation playback. If you highlight the other links, you will see the dropdown menus with no flash because its java. the link as follows

www.timelessrelics.com/new

Help With Pop Up Menu (Sub Menu Buttons) Linking To Frame On Main Timeline
Hi,
I really need help with my flash project. I've created a pop up menu by having 4 buttons on the main timeline which I made into a movie clip which has an instance name of menu_mc. Inside that movie clip I have my sub menu created and the menu works great. My only problem is that I can't seem to link the submenu buttons to the frames created on the main timeline. I've tried all the action script I can think of. One example I am using is

menu_mc.contact_btn.onfiltered= function() {
gotoAndStop("Scene 1", "contact");
}

This is where I am trying to link the Contact Button (which is a submenu button of the About button) to the contact frame which is located on the main timeline. Please help me if you can. Thanks.