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Making Buttons A Different Colour Once Visited?
I have my button which is red, on rollover, it fades to blue, and on rollout, it fades back to red - fine. But what if i wanted it so that once the button had been clicked, it turned green and stayed green so a user would know that the button had been used (you often see this sort of thing in image galleries as you will have seen) Of course, on rollover and rollout the green button would not fade between red and blue as it does originally, but would still need to be active.

Can you help me with this? an old fla or a tutorial perhaps?

I use mx - NOT mx 2004

Thank you.

Visited Buttons - Possible?
Hello, I have 24 buttons on my website and I want to allow users to see where they have been but Flash buttons don't have a visited link option. Because of the number of buttons, there are thousands of possible selection orders, so I can't solve the problem by taking viewers to a new frame on the timeline for each button used. (It might be easier to understand my problem if you look at my site: www.xs4all.nl/~grogers.)
Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, ginar

Visited Buttons
hiya, on some sites I've seen buttons that are one color, but after you click them they stay as a different color.

how is that accomplished? Is there a methodically accepted way to do it?

Visited Buttons
Im after a tutorial or if anyone knows of any code for some buttons, than have a mouse over effect and once you have clicked on them that have a visited state.

Visited State For Buttons
I have set of buttons that open image galleries. I want a visited state for the buttons so that the viewer knows which gallieries they have been to. Any tuts or Fla examples out there??

Buttons -- Visited Color(?)
Hi,
I'm totally blocked. In HTML, when you click a link, there is a visited link color, indicating that you've already clicked that link. Well, I'm trying to do the same thing with buttons in Flash MX. I'm stuck. Anyone know how to do this?

Tx, Lynda

Active & Visited Buttons
Okay, i know how to code visited buttons. I know how I can make active buttons by making them go to an empty frame. I know there's a way to code them so that it can be both active & visited. My question to you is how ?
Here are some links in case my explanation did not make sense

http://www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm ( check out the navigation )
http://www.prideprejudice.com

HELP !!!!!!!!

Animated Buttons That Stay Down/visited
hi, I'm new to flash like a lot of people that come and ask questions probably are but I've got a problem with my animated buttons. I've made them movie clips as I read that I should do. each one has it's up frame as #1, the Over animation is from frame 2 - frame 18 and the down is frame 19. They are named button1 - button6.

I tried to use this script made by claudio by placing it in the same layer as the buttons. here's the script

/*
your button is in fact a movie clip with 3 frames
frame 1 is normal state
frame 2 is over state
frame 3 is visited state
name your buttons button1, button2, button3 and so on...
*/
total = 3;//number of buttons - I changed it to 6
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
for (var i = 1; i<=total; i++) {
if (this["button"+i]._currentframe != 3) { //do I change this? (I've tried)
if (this["button"+i].hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, false)) {
this["button"+i].gotoAndStop(2); //I changed this to 18
} else {
this["button"+i].gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
}
};
for (var i = 1; i<=total; i++) {
this["button"+i].onPress = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(3); //I changed this to 19
};
}

The result was that all of the buttons just keep playing from the start of the page. my flash scripting is very sketchy so this all only makes half sense to me.
Are the changes I made right? do I need to add anything else? and did I put the script in the right place (the same layer as the buttons)

any help is much appreciated. thanks,
Mike

Buttons With ACTIVE, Visited, And Unvisited States
I have a red button with a MC nested in it where if you've clicked the button... the nested MC plays to the "active" frame and stops (here the button is orange). I want the button to remain on the "active" frame until ANY other button is pressed.

getting it to stay orange is the easy part. this would be similar to a two state button (unvisited and visited), but I need the button to have a third state: active.

The tough part, which I can't seem to figure out is... I have about 300 instances of this button and when any other button on the main time line is pressed the I need the "active" button's MC to move to the "visited" frame where the button turns blue.

Joshua Davis has buttons like this. Look here: http://flashtothecore.praystation.com/

Can anyone give me an idea of how I would do this?

Making A Mono Image Tween To Colour
Hi - newbie question - I want an image to tween from mono to colour - I'm using two images (one mono, one colour) in two timelines, tweening alpha down in one and up in the other - but is there a neater way that will only use one graphic in one timeline?

Best - James

Changing Background Colour...making It Fade
hey there...i have made a file that changes the background colour when you roll over a button using the code

on (rollOver) {
bgcolor = new Color(_root.myBG);
bgcolor.setRGB(0x66FF00);
}

now i feel that the effect doesnt look right since the bg snaps instantly to that colour when i rollOver the button...i was wondering if it is possible to make the background fade from its original colour to the new colour

i have found a way to do this using tweens but i would perfer to use actionscript as i plan on having more complicated colour changes

Making A Website To Help With Choosing The Colour Of A Bike - Please Help Me :D
Hello I am trying to make a website where you can take conponents of a bike and change their colour

there are about 17 conponents that I want to be able to change the colour of e.g. frame colour and seat colour.
and I want to have 10 - 20 colours

the number of combinations would be huge, so to have that many pictures, with a link to each is probs not the best solution by far.

I was planning on having a more interaction site, where when a colour or conponent is selected, it changes in front of you - any ideas how I could do this?

prehaps a simple solution would be to have a range of buttons, that when selected display a different coloured conponent - how do I make a button that when pressed reveals say a coloured box and doesnt dissapear when the mouse is moved away from the button - is this the hit feature? if so how do I make it work!?

Any help would be fantastic

Simon

Making A Movie Clip Colour Change Perminant For The Runtime
I have managed to use a simple change colour script to get my movie clip to change to the users chosen colour scheme and ive tryed but i cant find any way to make it stay threw out the whole story based on the user chosen colour scheme i was hpoing some one might no some code or tell me where im going wrong the code im using so far is :-

on (press) {
set(my_colour2, "/shapein");
var my_colour2:Color = new Color("/shapein");
my_colour2.setRGB(0xFF0000);
}

That might be wrong code to use but its in my swf and changes the colour it just doesnt stay threw out the story only on the one frame.

Colour Changing By Buttons
hi all,
I have three buttons and one rectangle which is blue, when button 2 is pressed I want the rectangle to fade to red and when button 3 is pressed the rectangle to fade to green...and so fourth
thanks,
tom

Changing The Colour Of A MC With Buttons
Ok, I am only a beginner so be gentle and dont moan if this has been asked many times before. I have a movieclip which is a black square and instance name bigblacksquare. I then have 4 buttons called bluechangingbutton , redchangingbutton , greychangingbutton and greenchangingbutton . I want these buttons to change the colour of the square.
What code will be needed for each button, the movieclip and the first frame of the movie.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Buttons Changing The Colour After Use?
Hi all,
I wondered if someone on here could tell me how to make a button change colour after use in flash mx. Letting the user know they have already cliked that button.

Hope Ive explained myself clearly thanks

Paul

Colour Tween On Buttons
I am trying to produce a rollover effect on a button (for my menu system), which fades the colour from white to dark blue, slowly.

I have done this once before, and I know that it is as simple as having two images on the timeline, and creating a tween effect between the two... BUT I CANNOT GET IT TO WORK!!!

I go to my button states, select the OVER state, and change the image to a movie. In this movie I insert another keyframe at about the 15th frame, and adjust the colour on this image to dark blue.
Next I right click on the first frame and select 'create motion tween'. I do the same for the previously inserted frame, BUT the blue image now changes back to white!

Change MovieClip Colour Buttons - Please Help
Hi,

I have a movie clip which I need to change the colour of -

So far I have little buttons which change the colour when I click them. But what I really want is for the buttons to be draggable and when I drop them over the Mc, they change the Mc to that colour.

Can anybody please help me?

Regards

Laurie

Actionscript On Buttons/music + Colour
heyo ive asked in flash mx o4 forum but not much help im affraid.

im having a go at making a skin for Kirupa, im still learning and ive created all the links ok and there working. But id like an explination and code needed to create colour of button change on rollover, eg Kirupa header at the minute.

i also have a sound clip which i want to play when the links are pressed and im not sure howto and the code?

i appriciate any help provided

-ta, kip

Colour Change On Elastic/springy Buttons
Hi

I've downloaded this movie fom FlashKit :

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...8909/index.php

This springy effect is exactly what I want - but is it possible to colour change the buttons as they spring by adding something to the code?

I'm not very advanced at coding so please make your reply simple.

I'm using MX 2004

Thanks

Changing Color (colour) Using ActionScript Buttons
Hey guys, sorry to bug you all, but I'm hoping you can help a budding ActionScripter!

I'm trying to make it so when the user clicks a button, it fades from it's current colour to a pre-defined one... simple enough in theory

Here's the AS I've got so far:

Code:
var startColour = {r:50,g:100,b:250};
var endColour = {r:250,g:0,b:120};

function fadeColour(startColour,endColour,t) {
var newR = (endColour.r - startColour.r)*t + startColour.r;
var newG = (endColour.g - startColour.g)*t + startColour.g;
var newB = (endColour.b - startColour.b)*t + startColour.b;
new Colour(but01).setRGB( newR << 16 | newG << 8 | newB );
}

but01.onRelease = function() {
t += 0.1; // Fade Speed
if (t < 1) {
fadeColour(startColour,endColour,t);
} else {
fadeColour(startColour,endColour,1);
}
}
So, let me just walk you thru a few things...

The script works, but not as hoped. The colour will only change when the user is "clicking" on the button, I want to it keep changing colour until it reaches the 'endColour' variable (like it should) - I have tried doing an "onRelease" statement, but this didn't help either

Secondly, like I said in my preamble, I want it to be able to fade from its current colour to a set colour, eg: I need var startColour to be dynamic, rather than fixed, but I don't know how to read in an objects current colour(!) - any ideas?

Thanks guys.
jonny.

Making MC Objects With Embedded Buttons Act As Buttons?
Hello everyone, thanks for reading my post.

I'm working on a map 'thumbnail' interface, with about two-dozen thumbnails that get larger (gotoandStop 5) on mouseover.

Now, this is the code I am currently using to achieve this effect:

Code:
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndStop(5);
_root.x += 2;
_root.VARIABLE_MC_NAME.swapDepths(_root.x);
}

on (rollOut) {
gotoAndStop(1);

}
Where should I put the onClick getUrl piece? And how?

I don't understand if it should be part of this function or have its own function.

Thanks for looking at this, all comments and answers appreciated.

-Tim

Creating A Colour Dialogue Box For User To Select A Colour For Background.
Hi,
Any ideas how to create a colour dialogue box so the user can select their own pereference of background colour?
thx
shaf
(I mean inside the SWF as its running......)

16 Bit Colour Mode Problem With Alpha Fades On Colour
Please help me out. I have tried many other forums and people, but no one can give me an answer. Hopefully you can.

Have a look at a site I designed for a school.

http://www.brineleas.co.uk in 32-bit mode this is great, now try 16 bit colour mode and you will see my problem.

Please help if you know how

Trev:

Flash Colour/ Javascript Colour
Can anyone over here help with the following...

http://www.were-here.com/forums/show...hreadid=148509

Colour Picker / Colour Transform
Hi...

This query has been bugging me for a little while, and it may be easy to answer, I don't know.

I'm using a fairly simple colour transform script to change the tint of a mc...
code:
myColor = new Color(_root.bgdvideo);
if(!ccc){_root.bgdvideo.setRGB(0x990000);
}else{
myColor.setRGB(ccc);
}
MovieClip.prototype.beginFade = function(dstX, durationOfFade) {
this.myColor = new Color(this);
this.srcX = this.myColor.getTransform();
this.dstX = dstX;
this.startOfFade = getTimer();
this.durationOfFade = durationOfFade;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
var r = (getTimer()-this.startOfFade)/this.durationOfFade;
if (r>1) {
r = 1;
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
var tX = {ra:this.srcX.ra*(1-r)+this.dstX.ra*r, rb:this.srcX.rb*(1-r)+this.dstX.rb*r, ga:this.srcX.ga*(1-r)+this.dstX.ga*r, gb:this.srcX.gb*(1-r)+this.dstX.gb*r, ba:this.srcX.ba*(1-r)+this.dstX.ba*r, bb:this.srcX.bb*(1-r)+this.dstX.bb*r, aa:this.srcX.aa*(1-r)+this.dstX.aa*r, ab:this.srcX.ab*(1-r)+this.dstX.ab*r};
this.myColor.setTransform(tX);
ccc = this.myColor.getRGB();
};
};

I know you have to change the ra, rb, (etc) values to alter the colour which you get (as in)...
code:
_root.bgdvideo.beginFade({ra:50, rb:204, ga:0, gb:0, ba:50, bb:255, aa:100, ab:100}, 1000);
...but I wondered if anyone knows a trick / way to find out the values you'd put in for (ra, rb, etc) to get a particular colour, rather than just aimlessly playing around with different values until you get the desired colour fade you want (which takes some time for me!)

Cheers
Jeff
*sorry if this is a dumb question...

A Colour Palette For Colour Matching
I'm new to actionscript and trying to creating a pretty simple colour palette which can let users to choose up to 8 different colours. First of all users will be presented with a range of different shades, and each time they choose a colour it can be saved to a movie clip, so finally they will have all 8 movie clips showing all the colours they've chosen.

The way I do is create a movie clip that contain all the colour shades in the palette in different frames. Then make 8 copies of it and give them different instance names. When the user come to select a colour then the movie clip will change to that colour, keep it, then the other colour will go to the second movie clip... and so on... I've tried different ways to simulate the saving function but it still doesn't work (one of them is using if / else statement on the button and declare different Number value on the movie clips)

Pls bare with me if my explaination is not clear... but any help will be greatly appreciated!! Pls tell me if you got idea how to do it or any similar work that you've done. I can also email / msn the file if you wanna have a look. Thanks in advance!! vinkc@hotmail.com

Making Buttons
I was having some troubles making buttons in MX. I went to the FK tutorials and followed the instructions for building buttons, but since i have the MX version there are slight diferences between the two.
I have no problem with (over, down, hit. ect) graphics for each part, but when i go to the movie section. Macromedia changed the layout. The tutorial in the flash MX didnt seem to be much help. Please help.

Making Big Buttons
I've created a sqaure with text in the middle...how do I make the whole square a big button....and when you roll or mouse over it the whole sqaure changes color.

Thanks for your time.

JT

Atlanta,GA

Making Buttons
Hi

Does anybody know how i can make one of those timelines for buttons. The one with the Hit, Over, ect. u know the kind ?

Any help would be much appreciated

Making Buttons
does anyone know how to make a navigation of button from a sorted array?

Making Buttons
hello, i was just wondering what you have to do to text to make it into a button...like with the options for (on, over, hit, etc) on the timeline when you double click it... this is confusing me...

thanks... chris

Making Buttons
Im very new to flash and I havent made any buttons before, but I'm trying to now. However, despite my best efforts and trawling through many tutorials, I can't assign actions to buttons very well.

All I want to do is create a simple button that will appear continuously until clicked, at which point it will transport the viewer to a seperate frame, which will itself appear continously until another button is clicked to go back to the original frame.

I've not explained this very well, but it would be like:

1st frame - Image with button on it
click the button - takes viewer to -
2nd frame - Different image and button
click the button - goes back to first frame

if that makes any sense at all..

all help is very much appreciated!
thanks

Making Buttons
I am new to flash so go easy... I have made a button with a funky design and would like to make it where, if you mouse over a color moved into the button from a given direcion and fills the button with that color. i know how to move color into the buttons area but it dosent fil into the button but yet make a big square (of the color i moved into it) where the button was. Well what i am asking is, how do you make color move into a object and just within the objects border? I hope i made yahll get me, im so lost.

Is Anyone Up For Making Buttons?
Hey, i apologise if this is in the wrong section but i saw no request section. Well what i'm looking for is some nice flash buttons that make a sound and also glow when you hover your mouse over them, i need 6 buttons

Home, Forum, Tutorials, Files, Links, The Team

Heres the link to my site so far and that shows what size the buttons need to be go Here . Prefrably black with a white swoosh sort of flash that goes over them when hoverd over. If anyone could do that i would be Very Very greatful, although i use flash i keep trying to follow the tutorial to make these buttons but can't get it right.

add me to msn > elliot_4eva@hotmail.com

cheers.

Making Buttons Appear
I have 5 buttons on a stage, each in different layers that i want to fade in to the scene. I have managed to create this effect by converting all buttons to movie clips, tweening them in using alpha and then in the last frame converting them to buttons. However this is takes a lot of time, especially when the number of buttons increases and was wondering if there was a quicker way to make them all fade in using just one tween.

There are images beneath the buttons so i can't just put a square of them and fade that out using a tween to reveal them. I have tried fading out a mask but this doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas?

Many thanks
John

[MX] Making Buttons Do What I Want Them To Do.
Ok, I am in the middle of laying out a website in Flash. I am learning as I go which makes little problems like these very frustrating. I have a myriad of questions but am only concentrating on this one at the moment-

My site will have only 4.5 sections not including the intro movie. HOME, ABOUT, PORTFOLIO, and CONTACT. The .5 is the confirmation page from the contact mailer. I have a button for 3 of those pages- ABOUT, PORTFOLIO and CONTACT. My header logo will be the button for HOME. My question is this... What exactly do I have to do to make these buttons control 3 different movies. Right now, I have just one animation done for the ABOUT page. Everything's fine, I am just confused how to transition to the next page for whatever button is pushed. I would like ABOUT page to fade out before the next page's animation begins. But I can't even get my buttons to goto and play a certain frame, let alone fitting in transitions.

I am really ignorant to the layout of my timeline. Like I said, right now, I have one page movie done and 3 buttons laid out. I can easily make the other page animations but I don't know how to fade out the current page into those.

Am I making sense?

Any help would be appreciated! If it helps, I can post screens of my Flash screen, or upload the swf/fla..

Making Buttons Know
I have a button that is actually a Movie Clip (so I can animate it). I want this button to play a sound. (But this isn't a sound question.)

If I have a list of 20 sounds, and 20 instances of this button mc, how can I make it know which sound is being called for?

If it were a normal button, each instance would have its own load- or attach-movie command. But since they're MC's, the invisible button hit is always the same.

Is there a way to make it look to the MC's instance name to get which sound to load?

Making Multiple Buttons?
I have a list of links, each one is to be a button. I was wondering how I could make this list so that I would not have to make 10,20 or so buttons, one for each link. I think this can be done with using smart clips, but I have not ever used them before and would need some help. If smart clips are the route you suggest could you direct me to a good tutorial?

Thanks for your help

Making Buttons With Arrays?
The code below is used in conjunction with a movie clip instance (spoke) that looks a little like a lollypop. When run it creates a spinning collection of these lollypops which looks like a cross between a molecular diagram and a ferris wheel.

My question is how can I make each of the lollypops (spokes) in the array act like a button, so that when I click say Spoke4 I can activate another movie clip associated with that Spoke.

onClipEvent (load) {
maxSpokes = 7;
turnspeed = 1;
spoke = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i<maxSpokes; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip (originalSpoke, "spoke"+i, i);
spoke[i] = eval("spoke"+i);
spoke[i]._rotation = (360/maxSpokes)*i;
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
for (var i = 0; i<maxSpokes; i++) {
spoke[i]._rotation = spoke[i]._rotation+turnspeed;
originalSpoke._visible = false;

}
}

I have been able to trace each arrays name when I mouseOver it's intance using hitTest, but I want to be able to do it when I click on the instance.

Buttons And Making Them Invisible
here's one that is stumping me right now... I have two buttons overlaying eachother. I only need one visible at a time, and would like to hide the other
i.e. Play/Stop button.

how can I hide one of the two buttons?

Thanks bros and bro-ettes

Making Movies Into Buttons
Gidday, I'm fairly new to Flash and am using V5.

I have a question avter viewing a site at http://www.prodrive.com(Please Look). This site basically starts in one huge flash movie filling the whole browser. When the movie is finished, The user is presented with 4 static buttons. When you mouse over one of these buttons, it zooms in, the others zoom out, and the selected button starts animating.

How is this done considering that when I select my movie in flash, the Mouse Event action is dulled out? It only seems to appear when the symbol is a Button. Does anyone know good tutorials or book titles that would cover this?

Cheers
Aarynz