Flash :: How Do You Make A Button Able To Jump From Movie Clip To Movie Clip

Can't Jump Scene From A Button Inside A Movie Clip
can anyone help me?
i'm using a script made by joshua davis (reverb) called boxes. in plane words it looks like 5 squares onj the stage, rolling over makes them bigger, rolling out makes the smaller (in a very sophisticated way), u can also drag the squares.
the script that rules the button that makes possible all this is:

on (press) {
startDrag ("");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag ();
}
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("/I_1_exp") {
play ();
}
if (/:ZSorting eq "Deactivated") {
/:recentM = getProperty(_target, _name);
/:Zorder = Number(/:Zorder)+1;
duplicateMovieClip ("/" add /:recentM, /:recentM add "temp", /:Zorder);
set ("/" add /:recentM add "temp:mynumber", eval("/" add /:recentM add ":mynumber"));
/:Zsorting = "Activated";
set ("/" add /:recentM add "temp:growth", 50);
set ("/" add /:recentM add "temp:switch", 1);
removeMovieClip ("/" add /:recentM);
}
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
tellTarget ("/I_1_exp") {
gotoAndStop (1);
}
/:Zorder = Number(/:Zorder)+1;
duplicateMovieClip ("/" add /:recentM add "temp", /:recentM, /:Zorder);
set ("/" add /:recentM add ":mynumber", eval("/" add /:recentM add "temp:mynumber"));
/:ZSorting = "Deactivated";
removeMovieClip ("/" add /:recentM add "temp");
set ("/" add /:recentM add ":growth", 50);
set ("/" add /:recentM add ":switch", 0);
/:recentM = 0;
stopDrag ();
}

What i tried to do is replacing:

on (press) {
startDrag ("");

with:

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene2", 1);

because I want to jump from scene 1 to scene 2
but when i tried to modify the script in this way nothing happens, the scene remains the same.
i'm going crazy!!!!!

Can Not Jump To Scene From Inside A Movie Clip/button In A MC
Hello...
I am obviously fairly new to flash to be asking such a question, but could someone please tell me how i can jump to a scene or frame label from inside a movie clip? I have the same problem when trying to jump to a different scene/frame label when using buttons embedded in movie clips... The code below gives example of my problems. Want to jump to a frame labelled theend inside scene 1:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop ("Scene 1", "theend");
}

Targeting A Frame Label In A Movie Clip From A Button In A Separate Movie Clip.
I have two separate movie clips placed on a timeline-MovieclipA and MovieclipB. I have a button in MovieclipB clip that wants to target a frame label located in the MovieclipA timeline. Can someone help me?

Code 4 MovieClip Button To Load A Movie Clip Into A Placeholder Movie Clip.
Yeah that title sounds a little confusing...so i will explain:

Is there a way to tell a "movie clip button" that once it is clicked on to load a "movie clip" into a "movie clip placeholder". So instead of loading an external swf into the placeholder, it will be a movie clip from within the same library. Putting every single custom clip on the timeline would take a while, so that is why I thought it would be easier like this, and the other movie clips are not that large that I want to load into it so there is no need for external swfs, trying to keep it clean. Here is the code along the lines I am trying to go for.

__________________________________________

this.profile_mc.onRelease = function() {
placeholder_mc.loadMovie("profileSection_mc","plac eholder_mc","_root.content");
}
__________________________________________

- "profile_mc is the button I am trying to activate to load the
"profileSection_mc" into the "placeholder_mc". but so far no good.

- the movie clips are within the same library, not on the timeline or external library.

- Is this possible?

Need Button To Make Movie Clip Appear
Hi, there!
I'm making a game, and I need a button, when clicked, to make one random movie clip called "building1" "building2" or "buiding3" to appear in the center of the stage (stage is 550x400 pixels). These movie clips need to be draggable around the screen.

I would greatly appreciate your help!
-Cmonkey9

How To Make Movie Clip In To A Button?
Ok I am lost at my site at http://www.jdmdesign.net - If you notice I have some buttons that are actually small movie clips when they are "mouse-over-ed" - But I cannot get them to link to another area of my movie and its driving me Crazy! I am sure someone out there knows a quick fix to this because I am new to Flash.

Thanks
Joel!

[CS3] How Do I Make A Movie Clip Act Like A Button?
Hi every one I've recently gotten stuck trying to make a movie clip act like a button, I've named the instance on stage: Button and then I've attached this action script on the first frame of the main time line:

button.buttonMode = true;

When I test the movie though there the icon dosn't change to the little hand when I move my mouse over the movie clip instance.

Source file located at:

http://www.johncliffordtaylor.com/button_test.fla

Thx for the help

John

How To Make Button From A Movie Clip ?
Dear expert friends,

I plan to make button from a movie clip which is more dynamic looking and colourful, and when it is pressed, it will call a function I wrote.

But, I don't know how ?

Can anybody help me ?

- IGX

How To Make A Movie Clip Button I.e. Make It Click-able
i followed the tutorial for making animated buttons by using movie clips instead of button symbols. now i don't know how to make them click-able. this is probably pretty basic, but i'm new to flash and i'm getting pretty frustrated trying figure things out by myself (no programming experience here, although i did buy the flash bible). i'm using flash mx 2004.

any pointers on how to do this would awesome. thanx a ton.

--V

Make A Movie Clip Button Go To Next Scene
I'm having trouble with a movie clip that acts as a button. i want the button to go to the next scene. if anyone can help, that will be much appreiated. below is the actionscript i use which dosent work.

thanks
csv427@hotmail.com

you can download the fla, to get a better understanding what i kinda mean:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room4...h%20button.zip
or
http://www.ffiles.com/flash/buttons/button_mc/

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndPlay("scene2",1);
}

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room4...h%20button.zip
or
http://www.ffiles.com/flash/buttons/button_mc/

[F8] How Do I Make A Button Play A Movie Clip?
How do i make a button i made, play a particular movie clip i want it to play and also reveal a set of more buttons. so i have a button that says "Ontario", then when i press it, a picture of the province will fade in(which i already set the fade in through transistion in the movie clip) and then a set of buttons that are major cities llike "Toronto", "Ottawa", "Hamilton", and so on appear as well. and that all happens from clicking the one button "Ontario". is this possible. if so how do i go about doing this?

How To Make A Button In A Movie Clip Navigate?
i have a pop out menu that is a movie clip. The buttons within this menu need to navigate to different scenes and frames but i have no idea how to make the buttons within the movie clip work. Do i add script to the button within the movie clip? as i cant add the script to the button on the main scene as the menu is hidden untill clicked. what script shud i put on it?

Pleease help if ya can!!!

Thanks!

Can I Make A Button From A Simple Movie Clip
My simple Movie Clip fades text from white to black between frames 1-10, and black to white frames 10-20 with stop.

On the main time line is it possible to use this movie clip as a button by telling it to: for example and i think i might have made this up...

on (rollOver) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
on (rollOut){
_root.gotoAndPlay(11);
}

that jus seemed to run the movie clip but none of the "on (rollOver)" worked. I ideally want them to also link to websites, im thinking "on (release)??

Am i going insane, Flash tends to hurt my head after a while. Reason im doing this is because i want to control the states of my button, and ultimately not to have it load the Up state when the whole thing loads, but only when you roll out. I thought this might be my answer, instead of having actual "buttons" :o(

Thank you

Make A Button Play A Movie Clip?
I followed the tutorial on how to make an animated button, but it didn't say how you assign the button to do anything. Is it possible to assign a button to start a movie clip on another part of the site? A movie clip that's not embedded in the buttons movie clip?

A Button Inside A Movie Clip, Within A Movie Clip, Calling Another Scene:
Is it even possible?

I have been trying to do it for the last few days for a site I am working on.

I have done searches in many forums and it's foolish looking for an answer that way, because quite frankly every thread I opened was something to do with LoadMovie or GetURL, etc.

What I have right now is on the button in my Menu Bar Movie Clip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(285);
}

Which plays a fancy little animation in the movie clip and then on the last frame of that movie clip I had:

gotoAndPlay("Contact", 1);

Which is the Scene for the "Contact Us" Scene named "Contact"

One would think that it would load up the scene and play at frame 1, however all that happens is it reloads the movie clip of the "Menu Bar" at frame 1 and starts over, not even realizing what I asked.

Anyways, I figured there's a script or something that tells it to look outside of the movie clip or to the _Root, or whatever.

If someone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry I have no example to show, since I have yet to upload it. (It's my company's web site, and I don't think customers would want to see some half-arsed web site that's not complete.

Thanks in advance.

Control Movie Clip In Container From Button Inside Other Movie Clip
There are three movie clips involved in this question.

1. A main movie clip that has a target empty movie clip where an external swf loads.

2. A menu movie clip that is built from button symbols and has its own timeline.

3. The external movie.

When a user clicks on the menu, the external swf loads into the empty movie clip target.  This part works fine. Here's the code:
on (release) {
    loadMovie ("Lesson1.swf", "_root.container");
}

I want to use one external swf for all lesson, versus 20 external swfs. The problem I'm having is controling at what frame the external swf loads.  I've tried adding --gotoAndStop (15) -- for example. I've also tried adding, gotoAndStop "_root.container" (15), but that doesn't work either. The gotoAndStop action ends up controlling the menu movie clip timeline instead of the movie loaded into the container. I figure this is because the menu mc has "embedded" buttons and it's own timeline.

Any  help you can offer will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Sheila

Creating A Button To Open A Movie Clip From Inside A Movie Clip?
I'm using a hexagon menu to display some images. One image is placed on each slide of the hexagon menu (which can then be rotated left and right to see other "slides").

What I want to do now is to be able to click on the object (image) as a button and for it to go to another scene which shows the image blown up and some description next to it (which is another movie)

I have tried the following which doesn't seem to work:
Created an invisible button (or choosing the image as a button) and having

on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene 5", 1);
}

this doesn't work when I use it over the hexagonal menu, but when I move the button to somewhere else on the screen (not over the movie) it works.

Please can someone help with this - Ive been working on it flat out over the weekend and desperately want to make it work. any ideas would be appreciated!! thank you

Loading External Movie Clip With A Button Inside Another Movie Clip Help
Hi,

I am working on a scrolling thumbnail movie clip, that when you click on the thumbnail button inside the movie clip it will load an external movie clip. I have an empty movie clip on the main stage, and have been trying all sorts of code, but for some reason it doesn't like that I am inside a movie clip using buttons. It can't seem to find the external swf.

I have tried:

on (release) {
loadMovie (ithink.swf, "loader");

and

on (release) }
if (firstTime == true) {
loadMovie("ithink.swf", _root.loader);
firstTime = false;
} else {
_root.clicked = "ithink.swf";
_root.loader.gotoAndPlay("goback");
}
}

and so far nothing, for some reaosn when I click on a button outside of the movie clip with the above code it loads... and than the other works too, but if I click on the buttons inside the scolling movie clip first they won't work.

Any suggests or ideas!!?

I would really appreciate it... I am beyond frusterated!!

Using A Button In A Movie Clip To Control The Movie(and Not Movie Clip) Timeline
Ok i have a button placed in a movie clip. I want this button, when released, to go in another scene, frame one, on the movie(scene) timeline and not on the movie clip timeline.

So i tried: gotoAndPlay("mission", 1); (mission is the name of my scene)

But it goes to the frame 1 of my movie clip, It would be great if someone could tell me how i can control the movie timeline while my button is in a movie clip

thaks
Vakarm

How To Jump From One Movie Clip Into Another
If I am inside a movie clip and would like to have a button in it that on release will go to the root of the scene, jump into another movie clip and go to a specific label or frame number in that movie clip. What is the action script for something like that. I know about going to root and jumping to a frame on the root scene but would like to know how to extend that and jump into another movie clip and go to a specific frame in that movie clip?

thanks a lot
michal

How To Make A Button Which Plays A Movie Clip (Symbol)
I've got a problem,

I need the Actionscript to play a specific Movie Clip (Library Symbol) in the movie when a button is pressed.

Can anybody help me plz?

How Do I Make A Movie Clip Play OnClick Of A Button?
I'm having trouble with getting movie clips to load and play onClick of buttons.

Do I need to use variables?

Make Graphic (or Movie Clip?) Appear On Button Release?
Hello,

I'm new to Flash and simply trying to make a graphic
from the library appear
when the user presses a button.
Please help!

Thanks!

How Do I Make A Movie Clip Play When A Button Is Pressed?
I have 2 layers that I want to make into a movie clip. One is tweens and the other is a path for the tweens. How do I convert those into a movie clip, and how do I have them play when a button is pressed?

How To Make Button Retain Movie Clip When Clicked?
I am making a flash navigation menu with sub menus for my site. As you can see in the action script below, I got the rollover, release and displaying the actual sub menu content with links.

on (rollOver) {
nosotros_mc.gotoAndPlay("rover");
}
on (rollOut, releaseOutside) {
nosotros_mc.gotoAndPlay("rout");
}
on (release) {
submenus.gotoAndPlay("nosotros");
}

The thing I don't know how to do is to have the parent menu button stay with its movie clip without rolling out after I click on it. Here is an exact example of what I am talking about... http://www.templatemonster.com/websi...tes/13405.html
When you click on a button, the blue animation actually stays, and is only removed when you click on another button.

Here is what I am working on... http://gestionycontratas.com/index.php
-I just want my blue square to stay on when I click on it, and to go away when I click on another button.

I would really appreciate your help here. Thanks in advance.

How Do You Make A Movie Clip Button Open An External .swf
how do you make a movie clip button open an external .swf?

How To Make A Button Inside A Movie Clip To Go To A Another Scene ?
october 25th ,2002

I have a button inside the time line of a movie clip ;
that movie clip is placed onto the time line of scene 2;
I have tried to make that button to get back to a previous
scene with different actions haven´t worked as below :

......

1- (jazz gallery is the name of that previous scene)

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.jazz gallery", 1);
}

.......

2- I issued this label , jazz_gallery1 , at the scene I want to go

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.jazz gallery", "jazz_gallery1");
}

........

3-

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("_parent.jazz gallery", 1);
}

........

4-

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay ("jazz gallery", 1);
}

......

None of all above has worked !
Can someone please tell me what´s wrong ????
Thank you very much.
Cheers
MMKT

Make Movie Clip Vanish When Button Is Pressed
Hi,
I have no idea how to explain this problem so excuse any stupidness on my half!!
I have a picture on my movie and around the pictures are buttons, when the buttons are pressed the movie loads another submovie - my problem is that the intial movie clip wont vanish it stays on top of the loaded movie coming into flash from the button being pressed. How do i arrange it so that the intial clip vanished when a button i spressed?? www.anthonywalsh.com
Thanks for the help

Movie Clip Button Inside Movie Clip Button Is Driving Me Nuts
hellllllo everyone, this thing has been bothering me for weeks, i've been hiding from it for days but it always seems to come back and bug me..
this is the problem..
on my main timeline i have a movie clip button that plays over/out state within this clip and on the over state it also opens 8 other movie clip in this movieclip that i am hoping to make them clipable, i only made an over state for the first movieclip out of the eight, but it just wont do the rollover effect..
i think there is a better way to do this..if i need to start over..let me know..thanks!!!

i will attach the file please help me out! i am tired of hiding!
thank you again!!!!!

Jump From Movie Clip To Scene
Hi all,

probably very simple, but I still don't get it to work:

My Scene (Scene 5) starts with a movie clip, so in Frame 1 I put action script "stop". At the end of the movie clip, I want to go back to scene 5 and start on frame 2. So I named frame two "menu" (on a keyframe in the "action" layer). At the end of the move clip I put a keyframe and say actionscript:

stop();
gotoAndPlay("Scene 5", "menu");

But, instead, it runs the same movie clip again...

Why is that?

I hope sbd can help me on this...

Thanks in advance for any indication.

Jump To New Frame Outside The Movie Clip
Hello,
First time poster here so hi everyone. i beelieve the problem i am having right now is very basic but indeed very annyoing so any help is appreciated. I have a button within a movie clip which on roll over causes some animations to occur, nothing to big, however i want this button to jump to a differant frame outside of the movie clip but on the same scene the movie clip is on, therefore the movie clip would be gone as we would be taken to a differant fram which does not contain the movie clip. how is this done? the basic on release goto frame does not work and for some reason the scene i select is blue when i try to do that. Please help me. thank you.

Robert

Help: Jump To Next Scene From A Movie Clip
Hi! Was just wondering...is there a way to jump to the next scene from a movie clip? In my current scene, I have a steady background, but I also have a movie clip that continous playing. So I placed a stop action at the scene so that the background in the scene stops playing, while the movie clip runs.

That works fine, but I can't jump to the next scene from the end of the movie clip. I used a gotoandplay (scene name, frame number) action at the end of the movie clip, but it doesn't seem to work. Can anybody help please?

How To Jump To A Different Scene From A Movie Clip
I am building a site in flash, and each page has its own scene. The nav however is a movie clip so I can reuse it on in each scene. My question is, how can I jump to one of the other scenes from this one movie clip. I tried using this actionscript:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene Name", Frame #);
}

and it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!!

Jump To Next Frame After Movie Clip Is Done
Another simple question to answer for a flash nimrod. I have a main flash file and in one of the frames a movie clip is loaded in. I put a stop on that frame so the movie clip runs. Once the movie clip is over, I would like the next frame on the main flash file to be shown. How do I go about doing this?

I don't know if I'm going about this the right way but I've tried doing this:
Let's say the movie clip itself has about 20 frames, at the end of those 20 frames, I've tried putting in an action to tell it to go the next frame of the main flash file. Let me know if anyone can help, its probably really easy but as I said, I'm an idiot.

How Do You Jump From A Movie Clip To Another Scene?
Can anybody out there help an old man?
I hope that I haven't posted this question twice - I have just joined the forum and maybe messed up>

I have limited experience of Flash 5 but can still produce something moderately useful. However, I am absolutely stuck on this one!

I have created an FLA file that contains two scenes, Scene 1 and Scene 2 (no labels). I have also created a new symbol movie clip entitled "To whom with rats" which I dragged into a frame in Scene 2.

In the final frame of the movie clip I have inserted a button which I want to send the action to Scene 1 Frame 15. I am hoping that someone out there will be able to help this old man by providing me with the precise action script that the button needs to do what's expected of it!

I have tried reading through the Action Script manual but it just blows my mind!

Thank you in anticipation.

Onqchris

Movie Clip To Another Scene Jump How ?
hi guys..
i need some help...
well i am working on a project....
i am using flash mx, i have created a movie clip in 'scene 1' & a button inside the movie clip. so the thread is like this scene 1 > movieclip > button

now i have used my 'goto' action into the button to jump to scene 2. but its not happening....it goes to scene 1 and frame 1...

please help...
mail me at mohantyabinash@yahoo.com
thanks

Can A Movie Clip Jump From One Guide To Another?
(I don't even know if a Guide is the right solution)

What I would like to do is have a movie clip follow a path. Then when there is a new event, move the movie clip along a DIFFERENT path.

I have no idea how to tell a movie clip, "Ok, I know you're on path A, but now I want you to jump to path B, starting at the righthand end."

My knowledge level: I know how to cause a graphic to follow a Guide path. I haven't tried getting a movie clip to follow a Guide path. I'm learning about actions and making decent progress.

Thanks,
John

Correct Syntax Make Movie Clip Work As Button
Hi folks

Real green newbie here trying to do what I thought would be very simple action script command to make a text button name Email jump to the frame where the email form is in a flash movie. I read in a tutorial somewhere that you have to make button an actual movie clip to make the go to frame work?

I did that, put in the actionscript code:
on (release) {gotoAndStop(147);
}

I did the check syntax and it came back no errors however when I go to test it, I get output window with error that states:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer= Layer 51 - Email, frame=34:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

As I am not familliar with all the codes and syntax terminology yet but I do want to learn as I see the many advantages it offers. I have a book on action script and it might as well be in a foriegn language for all the good it does me. I can not make heads or tells. If anyone knows of a good book that teaches basic with hands on example that you can work along with the book,please let me know. I work better hands on visual teaching a huge book with syntax codes I do not understand.

Thank you very very much.
~Des~

How Can I Make A Moving Movie Clip - Clickable - Lika A Button ?
Hi friends,

My name is IGX and I have a problem,

how can we make a moving movie clip - clickable - like a button (for game), and go to a specified frame as we wish ?

A Button Inside A Movie Clip To Move Another Movie Clip
I'm building a web page and I have a button that I need to make two movie clips play. The button is inside one movie clip and in addition to it playing I want it to make another movie clip play. It doesn't seem to recognize the movie clip target names. Any help as to how this can be done would be much appriciated.

Thanx

Controlling A Movie Clip From A Button Inside Another Movie Clip.
I'm confusing myself just typing this.

I'm working on an interactive map. The map itself is a MC inside a container, but also contains all the buttons as well. On my main stage(scene 1 and menu) is a window(MC) that will show info and photo of building. Now if I create a button on the main stage I can control the movieclip(images) easily. But when I use a button from inside map(MC) it doesn't seem to recognize the (images.gotoAndStop(frame))command.

I'm just not sure what to put in order to be able to control the MC's timeline from within that map movieclip.

Sorry if this is confusing. Of course at the same time it might be a simple solution for most people here as well. At least that is what I'm hoping anyways.

How Do You Make A Button Able To Jump From Movie Clip To Movie Clip

how do you make a button able to jump from movie clip to movie clipI have 5 movies i the same scene , I need the buttons to jump from movie to movie ... how do I code this in the acrions ?

how do you make a button able to jump from movie clip to movie clip

I have 5 movies i the same scene , I need the buttons to jump from movie to movie ... how do I code this in the acrions ?