Flash :: Link To _y Coordinate In Movie Clip

Setting The X, Y Coordinate For A Button In A Movie Clip
I am trying to set the x and y coordinate of a button that I have placed an instance of into a movie clip. The problem is that it is not moving it relative to the movie clip, but relative to the screen coordinates, which I do not want.

The code is executed as an "on (release)" of another button located in the movie clip.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

How To Move A Movie Clip To Absolute Coordinate
Hi All,
I am making a sliding submenu.
http://www.teamhayes.net/multicom/multicom_02.html
When you go to the portfolio section and click on the buttons "Brand strategy", "Packaging" or "collateral" the submenu moves to a new y value on the screen. I am using this script to move the movie clip in the submenu

on (release){
this.tester.mc._y=90
}

It works until you use the scroll (up/down arrows)buttons on the submenu the when you click on "Brand strategy", "Packaging" or "collateral" buttons you see the y value is relative to the last position the submenu was in.
I need to know how to move the movie clip to an absolute y coordinate on the stage.
Here is the link to the test site:
http://www.teamhayes.net/multicom/multicom_02.html
I hope this makes sense.

[F8] Form To Create Flash Movie, Image Moving From Coordinate To Coordinate.
First, I am a 99.9% Actionscript noob. All I know how to do in AS is stop, start, go to frame, simple buttons, etc.

Second, the thing I am trying to do is semi-complicated (I think, as i have nothing to base it on)

Third, here it is:
Basically I would want something set up like this:

*********Form in HTML (or flash)*********
Coord 1 (x): |_______|
Coord 2 (y): |_______|
Frames: |_|

Coord 1a (x): |______|
Coord2a (y): |______|
Frames: |_|

etc. etc
*********************
Then I would want it to somehow (:P) take that, and generate a flash movie (well just the content-ish), so that a symbol will move from the x,y coords to the other in the specified amount of frames.

i.e.
Coord1=5
Coord2=10
Frames=6
Coord1a=20
Coord2a=34
Frames=8

Then the symbol would start at 0,0, move to 5,10 in 6 frames, then move to 20,34 in 8 frames.

Is this possible, if so, is anyone willing to code this, or provide me with some suggestions on how to do this?

Form To Create Flash Movie, Image Moving From Coordinate To Coordinate.
First, I am a 99.9% Actionscript noob. All I know how to do in AS is stop, start, go to frame, simple buttons, etc.

Second, the thing I am trying to do is semi-complicated (I think, as i have nothing to base it on)

Third, here it is:
Basically I would want something set up like this:

*********Form in HTML (or flash)*********
Coord 1 (x): |_______|
Coord 2 (y): |_______|
Frames: |_|

Coord 1a (x): |______|
Coord2a (y): |______|
Frames: |_|

etc. etc
*********************
Then I would want it to somehow (:P) take that, and generate a flash movie (well just the content-ish), so that a symbol will move from the x,y coords to the other in the specified amount of frames.

i.e.
Coord1=5
Coord2=10
Frames=6
Coord1a=20
Coord2a=34
Frames=8

Then the symbol would start at 0,0, move to 5,10 in 6 frames, then move to 20,34 in 8 frames.

Is this possible, if so, is anyone willing to code this, or provide me with some suggestions on how to do this?

Can You Shift The Coordinate System Of A Movie Clip In Flash?
This could be a simple "no" answer but I really hope it's not.

I'm working on a mario-esque side scroller for flash. My next task is to handle camera movement. In other words, leave the player in the center of the screen and move the world around him or her. I was wondering if there is an option in flash to shift the coordinate system?

For example, say my movie is 500 x 500. If the player is at (1,000, 1,000), my movie's coordinate system would no longer start at (0,0) in the top left, but instead would start at (750, 750). This would put the center of my flash movie on the player at spot (1,000, 1,000).

This would eliminate the need for me to update every objects associated movie clip in the world one at a time.

Button Link Inside Movie Clip Link To Slide #
First let me say I am a very new to ActionScript and Flash, but have a pretty good understanding of the web and a basic understanding of object oriented scripts from CSS and a few other languages.

I have a navigation menu which is a movie clip containing buttons inside it and have a slide presentation as my main content. I am trying to make the buttons link to a specific slide # in a different part of my flash presentation.

You can see the page here: http://brhpc.ericlevay.com

The nav menu is a downloaded source and the slide show is the default canned one from the Flash templates directory.

I was hoping to use the gotoandStop (slide#) to make the connection between the nav button and the slide but it does not do anything.

I will provide the source if needed...

Thanks!

Link From One Movie Clip To Specific Frame Within Another Movie Clip
Hello,
I've been working on this problem on and off for weeks now, and am hoping I could get some assistance, as it is driving me batty and my deadline is quickly approaching. Here is the basic setup:

I am creating a Flash webpage. I created a Flash movie with 6 frames, with a movie clip on each frame, each movie clip being a single page of the website. What I would like to do is have button within one movie clip (say a button in the movie "contact" which is frame 5 of the main movie) link to a frame within another movie clip (say frame 3 called "project3" within the movieclip "portfolio" which is frame 2 of the main movie).

With all my efforts, I am only able to get the button to go to and play the called movie clip at frame 1, and no other frame number or label.

I have tried codes such as the following:

on (release){
this._parent.portfolio.gotoAndStop("project3");
}

on (release){
_root.portfolio.gotoAndStop("project3");
}

... and countless other options, but nothing seems to work. I would greatly appreciate any assistance with this matter. For the record, I admittedly do not know much Flash and am learning most of this on my own with a small base knowledge from a design class I took years ago using UltraDelv! Please let me know if I need to go into further detail.

Cheers!

[CS3.AS2] Button In A Movie Clip Link To Another Movie Clip And Play
what im doing is that making a button in a movie clip link to another movie and play/stop certain parts of that clip

lets say that there are 4 buttons are in movieA, and the other clip is called movieB

when the user clicks button1 in movieA, movieB will play from frame 1 to 5 and stop.
when user clicks button2 in movieA, movieB will play from frame 5 to 10.
and so on

so far my code for button1 is:

on (release){
this._parent.movieB.gotoAndStop(5);
}

on (release){
_root.movieB.gotoAndStop(5);
}

button2:

on (release){
this._parent.movieB.gotoAndStop(10);
}

on (release){
_root.movieB.gotoAndStop(10);
}

with this code, it just jumps to the designated frame.
what i want is to have it play from current frame to a designated frame

can anyone shed some light on this?

Movie Clip Inside Movie Clip Link To Url Issue
I have created a scrolling row of banner ads that reacts to the mouse. I had some help getting the images to load in using an xml document and also to pass the url from the xml. My problem is the button funtion is blocked as the button movie clips need to be placed inside the scrolling movie clip in order to get it to scroll. Is there anyway I can get these buttons to work? I have attached my fla, please help!

Thanks for your time,

Glenn

[F8] Rotating A Clip Around A Coordinate
Let's say I have a clip that is 100x100...I want to rotate it around a point at 50,50 instead of 0,0...How would I go about doing this (and it needs to be done dynamically...for example, the clip will rotate around a point I click)? I'm guessing some kind of x and y displacement has to be done with each incremental rotation? It's been awhile since I took trig class...

Button In Movie Clip To Link To Other Movie Clip
I am trying to have a button isde my movie clip on frame 1 to jumpt to the start of my movie clip on frame 2. They are both in the same scene. I have tried all the basic action scripts including calling the root target and movie name and nothing will work. I am using Flash5 in XP.

Some of the scripts I used:

on (release) {
loadMovie ("", "_root.about");
}

and

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.about");
}

why doesn't this work?

ps my 2nd movie clip is called "about"

How Do I Link To Specified Frame In One Movie Clip From Another Movie Clip?
Hello,
I've been working on this problem on and off for weeks now, and am hoping I could get some assistance, as it is driving me batty and my deadline is quickly approaching. Here is the basic setup:

I am creating a Flash webpage. I created a Flash movie with 6 frames, with a movie clip on each frame, each movie clip being a single page of the website. What I would like to do is have button within one movie clip (say a button in the movie "contact" which is frame 5 of the main movie) link to a frame within another movie clip (say frame 3 called "project3" within the movieclip "portfolio" which is frame 2 of the main movie).

With all my efforts, I am only able to get the button to go to and play the called movie clip at frame 1, and no other frame number or label.

I have tried codes such as the following:

on (release){
this._parent.portfolio.gotoAndStop("project3");
}

on (release){
_root.portfolio.gotoAndStop("project3");
}

... and countless other options, but nothing seems to work. I would greatly appreciate any assistance with this matter. For the record, I admittedly do not know much Flash and am learning most of this on my own with a small base knowledge from a design class I took years ago using UltraDelv! Please let me know if I need to go into further detail.

Cheers!

Main Movie With Buttons Link To Movie Clip
Basically, in Scene 1 (my only scene), I have buttons that call certain parts of a movie clip.

I've pulled the movie clip into the scene where I want it, and named the instance.

The movie clip has different things happening along the time line that relate to the different buttons. Each one has a stop action, as needed.

I placed the action of onrelease, tell target for each button to go and play the correct scene. Which it does - the first time. If the user hits one button, it goes to the right frame of the movie clip, etc, but if you hit the same button twice, then it jumps to a different button's place.

If there are only two buttons, it keeps switching back and forth.

If there are more than two buttons, only the last button is the messed up one - and if you hit it twice in a row, it goes back to the first button's frame of the movie clip.

Make sense? Any ideas of how to stop this. I even followed an example of this in a book EXACTLY and I get the same problem.

Thanks.

Link On Movie Clip
I'm having this problem: I have a movie clip, and in this movie clip I have a button. I want to link this button to another scene, and im inserting the following action:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("sales", 1);
}

It doesnt work, when I click it im directed to frame 1 of my movie clip.

Glad if somebody more experienced can help me.

How Do I Link From Within A Movie Clip?
Hello,

I have a button in a movie clip that is in a scroll pane. The button simply needs to link to a frame label in the next scene but it's not working. Do I need add something else to my "go to" information?

on (release) {
gotoAndStop("Certificates", "Teaching");
}

Thanks
Doug

Movie Clip Link [i Think]
I've tried making this movie clip into a link. It's basically a thing that on mouseover there is a transition. You can see it here: http://ajrandall106.5gigs.com/travis.html

I'm trying to get it so that you can click it and have a link. Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
If you don't want to explain can you do it on my file and send it to me?
http://ajrandall106.5gigs.com/D.fla

I've spent an hour looking for something to do this and all I can find is how to make a button or text into a link. So I'm turning here for help.

Thanks a bunch!
My email is ajrandall106[at]gmail.com

Movie Clip As Link?
Hey guys..i'm new to this board and to FLASH ...i tried to include a short movie clip to my homepage. My Goal is that you'll be directed to another page by clicking on this clip.

I found 2 ways to do that:

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

or:

yourButtonName.onRelease = function(){
getURL("YourUrl","_self");
}

which one should i use?

[CS3] Link From One Movie Clip To Another
Can someone help? I'm sure the solution is probably just a few lines of code but I'm completely stuck.

If you click on any of thumbnails, the full screen pic should pop up. At the moment I have navigation set as, click outside the full screen pic to return to the thumbnail gallery. For usability issues however, I also wanted to include an 'X' in the top right of every photo to go back to the gallery.

My scene is set up like so:

Scene 1 > Movie clip 1 (thumbnails) > Movie clip 2 (full size pics)

I put the X on movie clip 2 and used the following code to try and return to frame 1 of movie clip 1 but it's not working:

PHP Code:

xbutton.onPress = function() {
_root.contentMain.gotoAndPlay(1);
};

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong please?

Movie Clip Link
Hi,

What is the script for linking from the _root timeline to a label inside a movie clip?

Thanks

g27

Link From A Movie Clip
I just bought a flash template and I can't manage how to change some links.

Here is the site:
Baby Photo

I manage:
- to add new thumbnails,
- to move them so that the first one is the one I need
- to extend the area for them to display corectly

I couldn't find out what I'm I suppose to change to modify the links from that thumbnail in order to display the image I want.

Any ideas? What I'm suppose to change? Must be some actionscrip.

Link From A Movie Clip To A Scene
how can i make a linkage from a button within a movie clip for jumping to antoher scene.

Please Help Me Movie Clip Link Prob.
Plz Help, PLZ!
I made a collapsible menu in flash using a movie clip i attaced this following code to the buttons

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("Frame_Name");
}

And it will liink to the designated frame/scene, but if you were to click the same button a second time it would skip to another frame/scene. How do I prevent this from happening?????

Help Making A Movie Clip Link
I downloaded a nice menu from the movies section here and edited it a bit to fit my design. Now, the problem I'm running into is the buttons are actually movie clips. I've tried just converting them to buttons but then I don't get the effect. I tried converting the text I inserted inside the movie clips to buttons and linking them but it messes up the effects a little and you have to actually click on the text to get the link. You can download the .fla here. Please let me know if any of you have any ideas.

CSS - How Can I Link It To A Movie Clip In Flash
Does anyone know of or have an example of how to build a CSS that will control the text of a dynamic text field's line spacing ? within a dynamic text field.
-
I'm having trouble with inconsistent line spacing
in a dynamic text field in flash and think this will help ?
-

How Do I Make A “Movie Clip” With A Link?
when i try to assign a link to a movie clip it takes away its effects..how do i keep the effects and still have the movie clip button link to another site...

thanks

Getting Combo Box To Link To A Movie Clip
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Hi,

It's my first post (after a while of reading the helpful posts!).

I'm having difficulties with the combo box. I'm trying to link to a movie clip (or anything really...)

I've tried a few things but I really don't know where to proceed from here.

Any help would be much appreciated. I'm using Flash MX 6.0

Thanks a million!

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Movie Clip Email Link
Is it possible to make a movie clip an email link? If so how do you do it, I tried using behaviors and it didn't work.

[CS3] Turning A Movie Clip Into A Link
I want my movie clip to play when I click it then when its done I want it to forward to another page.. I already made it so the movie plays when being clicked.. all i need to know now is how to make the movie forward to another page once finished playing.

Hope that made sense. Been working on it for awhile and my brain can't seem to think of any other way to explain it ;-) hehe know what I mean?

Thanks

How To Link Button To Movie Clip
I hope some one can help me with this.

I just resently started tring to creat flash web sites. and its smooth sailling until I try and get my buttons to work. My problem is I have a button in the main area/scene 1 and i have movie clips in the library that i want to link the buttons to.

can anyone help me with the coding to do that. or just what to do?

thanks

E-Mail Link In A Movie Clip
I have made a movie clip that has 5 frames (in the scene) and 2 layers
1 layer is for people
1 layer is for action script
in the people layer on each frame is information about 1 person: ie. their name, phone, location, and e-mail address
This movie clip will be part of a button.
When the person visiting the site clicks on the button the movie clip will go to the person associated with that button.
I want to have the e-mail address linked to that person's e-mail address, so when they click on the button they will see the e-mail address, click on the e-mail address and outlook express (or whatever) will pop up and they will be able to send that person a e-mail.
Problem: I can't get the link in the move clip to become a "link" when I try to use get URL it doesn't work. Flash help has given no clues as how to do about doing this.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Cathy

Button Movie Clip Link
I've created some simple buttons that I'd like, when clicked, to play a movie clip. Whats the best way to do this?

Giving Link To Movie Clip
Hello..
I have a problem.
I created an empty movie clip and I have a button which will load a jpeg into the movieclip on click.now i want to click on the movie clip to go to some other page(html).
I do not know how to do that.Can someone help me out.
i tried doing
mc._url and was not able to get the result.
Thanks
Sudha

Adding A Link To A Movie Clip
Hi there,

I just created a short clip to use as a banner ad.

How do I add a link to the clip so that when a user clicks on it, it brings them to another page?

The clip is a flash file. The page I want them to go to is an html file if that matters.

Thanks for your help.

Movie Clip Button Link
I know this is novice, but how can I add links to movie clip buttons?

How To Link Correctly From A Movie Clip
Hey guys, I hope I can get this puzzle solvez, I am not too much of a flash person and I got this old flash site at:

www.islandoasis.com OLD SITE 4 years old

The site was coded in such a way that each MAIN STAGE BUTTON calls a bunch of movie clips in multipletimeline positions:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("why");
with (mainstage) {
gotoAndPlay("down");
with (mainstage.bigbox.plateMaster) {
gotoAndPlay("green");
with (mainstage.bigbox.navbar.navloc) {
gotoAndPlay("why");
with (mainstage.bigbox.navbar.subnav) {
gotoAndPlay("up");
}
}
}
}
}
on (rollOver) {
with (mainstage.bigbox.navbar.whybtn) {
gotoAndStop("on");
}
}
on (press, rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("mainstage.bigbox.navbar.whybtn") {
gotoAndPlay("out");
}
}

now I AM NOT A FLASH GUY, so I tried to build an old style fly-out menu which is a movie clip with all the navigation button in the movie clip ( the ones you have a big roll out click area so the menu turns off)

Now my question is, how fo I link the buttons that are now NOT IN THE MAIN STAGE, but inside movie clips, one level in, called DD MENU 1, DD MENU 2, and so on.

the navigation I tried to built, NOT PRETTY but hey.... it is at http://test.silvertech.net/islandoasis/

Your help is greatly appreciated! thanks so much,

Leo

Link Button And Movie Clip
i am having trouble with linking a movie clip and a button together. my button is normal with only an up over down hit with no MC's in it. the movie clip i would like to link it to it kinof a button, because in the script it has on(rollover){gotoAndPlay(10);} and rollout and press respectively. What i want to do is when i rollover either the movie clip or the button, both will go to the "over state" and when roll out or press do their thing. does anybody know how to put these together somehow as one? I would appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance!!

Trying To Link A Button In A Movie Clip To Another Scene
I'm actually trying to do two things. I have a movieclip in a scrollbar. There are two buttons within that movieclip. One I'd like to have link to another frame label in another scene. The other I'd like to have a call up a small browser window. Could anybody please help? my email is scott@algorithmia.com. Thanks.

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Link In One Movie Clip Able To Change Content In Another?
I was wondering if someone would be able to tell me how to have inter-movie links. Here is my dillema, I have 2 movie clips, on with links and one with content. I need to keep them seperate but the one with content must be controled by the one with links. So all in all what do you do to click a link in on movie and make it affect a different one? Thanks

Can I Add A Link To An Action Inside A Movie Clip?
I am editing a flash template and want to be able to hyperlink selected text to a pop-up window. The problem is, the text I want to hyperlink is inside a movie clip. Here is the frame action:

link2textvar = "AveStar's self-titled CD is now available for purchase.";

Can I link the words "available for purchase" to a pop-up window outside of the movie?

PS -- If there is a level of expertise below "NOVICE" in Flash MX scripting, you will find ME there -- be gentle

How Can I Link A Value/Variable To An External Movie Clip?
Hi anyone who can help,

I am currently using a heirarchal menu system that I got from here and it is great - I changed all the text and stuff fine - but I need to link my buttons to movie clips from outside (or could be inside - doesn't really matter) instead of just linking to URLs which bring up a new box each time a link is clicked.

If anyone has any idea what I'm talking about can you look into the attached fla. and look at the 'custom' action script and you will see what I mean. Any help is much appreciated and I will admire you for years to come :-)

Russ

Issue With Getting Button To Link To Movie Clip
Hi,

Basically, I'm trying to get a button to "talk to" a movie clip (to make it play). But everything I've tried to do has come to nothing.
Please open the attachment, and you will see what I mean. Before we go on, I need to explain a few things.

When you open the attachment you will see four different coloured panels. It's the yellow one that I'm trying to get to work.

What's suppose to happen is when you roll the mouse over the yellow panel, (as it's spinning around) the words "About Us" is supposed to fade in next to the yellow panel and should spin around with it. As soon as you roll the mouse off the panel, the words should fade out.

The yellow panel button is called "About Us Button" and it is located here: Main Page(timeline) Emblem Clip Button Panel Emblem About Us Mask About Us Button. This is the script that is on the button:

on (rollOver) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("AboutGo");
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("AboutStop");
}
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("AboutUs");
}

The "AboutGo" and "AboutStop" frame labels are on a clip called "About Us Text" and it is located at: Main Page(timeline) Emblem Clip About Us Text. This is the clip that's suppose to fade in and out.

Now, the only part of the script I mentioned above that works properly is the "on (release)" one that links to a frame label on the main timeline called "AboutUs".

Why does that part of the script work and not the other parts.

Please check out the attachment and see if it can be solved.

I will be extremely grateful to whoever can help me out.

LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!!!

Blastbum

Trying To Link Movie Clip To Scroll Bar And Buttons... HELP
I'm trying to attach a movie clip to the scroll bar and buttons of my clients project. I want the movie clip to highlight what frame I'm on. I have gotten it to work on the buttons using this...

function moveMe() {
square_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (_root.xPos-this._x)*.2;
};
}
on my timeline and ...
on(press){
_root.xPos = 228;
_root.moveMe();
}
on my buttons.

I've attached a sample of a similar .fla. Please HELP! I'm under a deadline and I can't figure this out! Thanks

Link From Movie Clip To Main Timeline
I have a links in a movie clip that need to go to scenes in my flash movie:

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("Home", 1);
}

I thought adding _root. would allow the link embedded in the movie clip to find the scene "Home" frame number 1 on the main timeline - but this isn't working.

Thanks for any help.

Link To A Scene - Button Within A Movie Clip.
The subject pretty much explains it. I'm having trouble getting my buttons which are within a movieclip to link to various scenes.
Any idea as to what actionscript I should use so that the buttons within the movieclip can link to a seperate scene.

Thanks

Adding Link To A Movie Clip Into A Template
ok guys, I have a question, how do i add a link to a movie clip , the thing is that I bought a website template and is all ready and the buttoms seems to be there, I mean when I pass the mouse over the do something but when i click they dont do anything, Im trying to use this movie clips to load the other webpages.
i hope u guys can help me.
thanks.