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Layering Images Over Mx Buttons...
For my first question I sure hope I'm able to get help I also in hopes you understand the question.

Ok there are a couple challenging parts to this:

I'm Designing an application(all the back end stuff complete) I'm now working on the interface with three navigation menu buttons (let say tab1 tab2 tab 3), I want to be able to do simple mouseover and onrelease events. clicking tab 1 would present the objects of tab 1 e.t.c...simple enough right..? also
I need resources/tutorials to hover effecst to change the color of the buttons on mouseover.
(its so easy to do in js/html)

Here's where things got tricky, this app is fully functional using mx.controls.Button; is there a way to layer an image over that maybe to have all its funtionality?

here goes an image to get a visual of the effect im trying to get
http://www.anobleworld.com/frontend/...ckground_n.png

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http://www.jumnious.com/crimson/index.swf
Me and my cuz are building a website for a band, hes gone for the weekend, hes the photoshop/illustrator/artsy guy, im the flash/coder guy. Just messing with a few ideas. I made a transparent BG image and its got a transparent hole in it. When i click a button, (next bg button i guess), I want an image to load underneath that image. I want a lot of images be able to load underneath this image, they will be the same size as the flash file. What would be the best way to do this. make an array, and load it in from a for loop? Im more c++ based so im not exactly sure what the syntax it would be. Anyone know a quik tut on something of this nature, any feed back is appreciated.
Also, this file is 1024px wide, what is the best way to insert this into a html document that centers it in the middle vertically and horizontally? How do i make the buttons on top of the browser go away when u click the link to open the index.htm file. And i want it to be full screen. I think its width=(width)-1 or something like that.
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Acid

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I am making a flash site where a custom cursor is used - you know, using the mouse.hide command and startdrag on the symbol I use for the cursor:

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The symbol I use for the cursor I have set as a button, because when the user clicks, the cursor image changes into a different image.

However, any navigation buttons on the site (on a layer under the cursor image) do not work when clicked and I get the following error message in the output window when I export:

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 2: on handlers may not nest within other on handlers
on (release) {

Is there any way to get it so the buttons underneath the cursor image will work while still having the cursor behave as a button?

Note: I use Flash MX

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Hi,

I'm currently making a map of the UK. The idea is you roll over an area (ie Scotland) and the area grows to about 200% so you can see the cities clearly, then you move the mouse off the area and it goes back to it's original size. I want each city to be a clickable URL but because the cities are sat on the expanding area button they conflict with each other, when i place my mouse over a city the area button thinks i've rolled out and tries to resize back to its normal size.

I hope i've explained that okay!

Any Ideas?

Jo

(EDIT: heres how it currently looks - http://www.cheaplimohire.com/flash-map/index.php)

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Hey

hope you guys and girls can help again! i am trying to create...and not getting very far!

ok, i have imported a gif image into flash, i want the image as a small icon which you would then 'hover' over and the image would cover the page.... to do this the image is a 'button'...have i doen this right so far?
problem...the image quality is CRAP when you hover over the smaller image, the original file sizes and resolution of the images are really high....when i try doing this with a jpeg or a tiff on the .swf file where the images are supposed to be....its blocks of bright colours....!

am i going mad...should i give up now!

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Hey

hope you guys and girls can help again! i am trying to create...and not getting very far!

ok, i have imported a gif image into flash, i want the image as a small icon which you would then 'hover' over and the image would cover the page.... to do this the image is a 'button'...have i doen this right so far?
problem...the image quality is CRAP when you hover over the smaller image, the original file sizes and resolution of the images are really high....when i try doing this with a jpeg or a tiff on the .swf file where the images are supposed to be....its blocks of bright colours....!

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Hi,

Im not sure how to do this, basically I want a button once clicked to be replaced by a picture, if that makes sense, so if there was a blank square, once that blank square is clicked, it reveals a picture, without appearing like a new image has appeared instead..

I have the image file in my library
and I have the squares which I have converted into buttons,

but in the code how do I specify that upon selecting a particular button, a particular picture appears?

if I go about it by saying for example:

on (release) {

if x != true && y != true) {

SetProperty ()

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x= true
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else {

y = true
}

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sorry if this is basic :/ im trying to follow a book, but its not helping much

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iv done the down, over hit frame designs and specified on release to jump to a url.
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i go back to button, edit and check the 4 down, over frames have my new designs still there, and yeh they are.
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i know iv probably missed something obvious.
so.. its your turn now, please enlighten me¬!

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I have tried putting all the buttons in the same layer, but the same things happens.

It appears unavoidable. I was wondering if somone knew how to get the images to appear infront of other layers even when they are under other layers?

I would post a pic of what I am talking about, but it appears that this board does not support that.

Any help would be grately appreciated.

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I wasnt sure if this was a question for the newb section or this bigger less familiar forum but here goes small question in the big help pond.

I have a simple site im working on. There are 3 button instances on the left that when rolled over they play a movie clip that fills most of the screen(not over the buttons) with a tween to a filled square and then depending on which button was rolled over load a certain variable from a text file and display it in a dynamic txt field. The problem i have is that all 3 button instances are on one layer but i want whichever button is rolled over to be "on top" if you know what i mean. What happens is if i roll over button 3 and then roll over button 1 button 1's output is under button3's output. I hope that makes sense if not i can reword it / upload link the sources.
-----Lemme know if im in the wrong place or if this description sucks if it does i will fix it after work and things prolly middle of the night tonight

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Im basically creating a blackboard writing effect..

I've been following this tutorial here...

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hey all. heres a problem that maybe somebody can help me out with :

on my main stage, i have two layers: one layer is a an imported quicktime file, and another layer is a still image. the image in on top of the movie. what i want to do is this:

when the file starts, i want the image to be completely transparent (thus, you can see the movie playing underneath it). then, when you mouseover the image, i want that small section of the image to appear. thus, as your mouse moves around the image, it appears in those areas where your moust moves across it. im sure this has something to do with creating a bunch of transparent square buttons and overlaying them on top of the image, as well as using masks in a creative way. however, i cannot think of the exact actionscript to implement this idea. can anybody please help me out? thanks so much.

peace
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For the sake of argument lets say we're working with:

Buttons: A, B, & C
SubButtons: a.1, a.2, & a.3
Images: 0, 1, 2, & 3
Overlay Image: 0.1, 0.2, & 03

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Images are the target image that should change.
Overlay Images are images that will load "on-top" of the Images to change their appearance slightly. Example; decals on a car.

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Error #1056: Cannot create property source on flash.display.Loader.

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