Flash :: Moving Buttons?

Moving Buttons
should be an easy one for you guys, but i'm a bit of a moron!
I have a single colomn of 5 buttons. I want the button that is clicked (whichever one) to move to the bottom of the row and for the others to shift up to fill the space. I should know how to do this but i think imay have over done it on the festivities!
If i havn't explained myself well, you can see what i mean at http://www.nooflat.nu
I want the same effect as the menu bar on the right hand side.
Merry Christmas one and all.
cheers,
michael.

[Edited by Michaelhill on 12-26-2001 at 05:06 PM]

Moving Buttons?
is there an action for the buttons to make it move?

like say i have a couple buttons on the left side of the screen. press one and i see them move to the right side of the screen, press the other and they move back to the left.

and i'm not talking about instantanceous movement, i want to see the buttons "tween" over to whatever location.

is it possible to tween buttons? or is it only movie clips? or do i have to do some sneaky stuff like when i click the button, i replace it with a movie clip, move it, and then replace it again with a button.

please dont tell me i have to do that...

Moving Buttons
what is the easiest way to move button, after it has been released, to the defined location?

Moving A MC With Buttons
Hello.
I want to slide a MC left or right depending on what button I click. I have a MC with ten distinct points on it (picture thumbnails) and need it to slide to the correct image on the clicking of each of the ten buttons. I've tried applying my Director logic but have not succeeded as yet...
Please help if you can... Thanks, John

Moving Buttons
Hi I have created a flash movie at the following address http://www.indigoimagination.com/fi.swf

I am trying to make the moving balls work as buttons. Currently the balls are buttons within movieclips that are placed on the stage. The buttons won't work when I add an onRelease goto frame/scene action.
I can't figure out why and was hoping that someone might be able to help me, cheers, Jim

Moving Buttons...
I am trying to build these buttons that drop down onto the page. I figured how to get them to do that, now I want them to stay together as all of the frames run in the shockwave-flash file. The problem right now is twofold:

1. The bottom buttons zooms off to the right diagonally, then reappears back where it should. How can I fix that?

2. If I click the 'contact' button, the bottom button or the top 'home' button all of the buttons that descended from the top of the screen disappear and do not descend down from the top of the screen as they originally did. How can I get the buttons to just stay in the same place?

thanks,

Peter

Here is the link to problem buttons...

http://www.victormatthews.org/buttonmania1.html

Moving A MC Using Buttons.
Im trying to figure out how to make a movie clip move by hovering the mouse cursor over a button.

I Have a movie clip with 3 images in it (there all the same, a seamless background) and I want to make them scroll left and right when the mouse hovers over different buttons.

Any help would rock.

I tried everything I could think of.

I want it to move continously untill the mouse moves off of the button.

Thanks guys!

Moving Buttons
hello

does anyone know how to do the moving buttons thing on this site? wen you click a link the other buttons move out of the way to reveal some more menus. check out this link you will see what i mean.

http://www.englandagency.com/england.html

thanks a lot

Nik

Moving Buttons
Hi,
Im try to make some moving buttons but im having a problem.
I turn all the buttons into a Movie clip and then put this in for the movie clip

code:

onClipEvent (load) {
speed= -.1;
windowheight= 400
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._y += (_root._ymouse-windowheight/2)*speed;
if (_y<_height*-1+windowheight) {
_y=_height*-1+windowheight+1;
} else if (_y>0) {
_y=0;
}
}

But when I play it, the movie clip always starts in the middle of the screen and moves upwards and I cant get it to move down past the middle or start lower down on the screen.

How can I change this?

Thanx so much for your help

Moving Buttons
Hi,
I am trying to create a scrolling column of thumbnail buttons. I saw this effect on the Nelly.netwebsite under pictures. I am trying to do the same thing.

I have attached what I have so far.

I am having trouble placing the column so that it scrolls within the viewable area. I would like the thumbnails to scroll until the top pic is in view and then stop. The same on the bottom, as the bottom pics viewablity stops all the photos from scrolling any further.

If anybody can help me that would be amazing...

Thanx

Moving Buttons
hello,

here : http://dev01xy.free.fr/flash/
you can see five letters acting like buttons

I would like,
when you roll over one the five letters (for example the "s"),
to make the four others moving away (you still see them
on the screen)
and when you roll out the "s"
to make them moving back.

also, when you click the "s", (the four letters have moved),
you load a window(*.swf) and I would
like as long as the window is opened, not make
able the four letters to move back wherever your mouse
is on the screen.
only when you close the window, the four letters
are moving back.

I would like the same behaviour for each button

thank in advance if there is a tutorial
to help

Re: Moving Buttons
hi im kinda new to flash (i know about the basics but not that very good in coding) so was looking for some help
i have a freelance project that requires

the centre page to have 5 words floating about
but when u put the mouse over them , the other words
disappear leaving the main word with a definition

at the moment im think of making a movie with buttons contained it
but not sure

Moving Buttons
I have been looking around this forum and havent found what i need to know....

So, here goes.....I want to have a list of buttons on the side of my stage. These will always be the same,but i need them to move the stack below them down when they are clicked....or possible a mouse over. They will each show a scrolling dynamic text box. Any help will be appreciated

Moving Buttons
want to roll over a button, in this case, btnGarretO.

on the roll over i want a movie clip to appear (mcGarretO) and also move two buttons down (btnWestonLawson, btnBelame). the MC mcGarretO appears fine but the two buttons do not move. i have the linkage set but no difference.. someone please help?

PHP Code:

on (rollOver){
    mcGarretO._visible=true;
    mcGarretO._y=25;
    mcGarretO._x=-10;
    btnWestonLawsone._y=24.8;
    btnBelame._y=37.7;
}

see attached file, this code is in Members section inside mcTheUnion

Moving A Pic Using Buttons
I have a window with a large pic behind it and small thumbs that select different pics.

I want to use four small buttons with arrows to move the picture up, down, left and right.

The pics are on a layer in different frames that the small thumbs take you to.
Each button I want to move the pics with is on a seperate layer not sure if thats important.

Can anyone give me some ideals on how to make this work.

[F8] Moving Buttons
hi everybody!
i'd like to know how to make buttons move in the direction the mouse is moved.
like this site:
http://www.sydneyblu.com/

i was playing with this code, but still I do not obtain the wished effect:

import mx.transitions.Tween;
mc1.onRollOver=function(){
var tw1:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_x", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._x, this._x+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw2:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_y", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._y, this._y+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw3:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_rotation", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._rotation, this._rotation+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
}

i guess it isn't difficult, but i don't know so much actionsript.

thanx in advance, i hope you can help me...

cheers!

[CS3] Moving Buttons
hi guys

having a slight problem, in my site I want to have buttons that when clicked they move accross the screen to become the title of that particular bit off content (which is externally loaded). I then want to be able to click my other buttons and, firstly, have the previous button move back accross to it's original place and have the newly clicked button move accross to be the new title. Each are animated with an intro and outro and I've coded in for flash to detect which frame the head is on as to which to animate, the only thing is it's skipping out the middle bit of the code, I assume because its running everything at once, or something along those lines. Any help greatly appreciated, providing this makes sense of course.

this is the code for one of the buttons

contact_btn.onRelease = function(){
if(this._currentframe==15){
gotoAndPlay(42);
}else if (this._currentframe==28){
gotoAndPlay(56);
}else{
gotoAndPlay(69);
}
gotoAndPlay(29);
}

so, it selects the correct outro dependent on what frame the head is at then after that plays the correct animation for contact button '29', am i missing something?

Cheers guys

Moving Buttons
hi everybody!
i'd like to know how to make buttons move in the direction the mouse is moved.
like this site:
http://www.sydneyblu.com/

i was playing with this code, but still I do not obtain the wished effect:

import mx.transitions.Tween;
mc1.onRollOver=function(){
var tw1:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_x", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._x, this._x+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw2:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_y", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._y, this._y+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw3:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_rotation", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._rotation, this._rotation+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
}

i guess it isn't difficult, but i don't know so much actionsript.

thanx in advance, i hope you can help me...

cheers!

Moving Around The Buttons
Hi,

I have 3 buttons in my movie and description for each button in the right side box like in the diagram.

bt_about, bt_profile, bt_contact

Now when I click on about - the about button should move from the stage and profile and contact button should move to the first and second place with an easing movement.

Same in case I click on profile - the profile should move out of the stage and other 2 buttons should come to the first and second position with an easing movement.

I tried this with creating number of movie clips with each possibilities etc.. but it is not going to happen...

I think their is a way with actionscript.. If somebody knows please help me to do this..

Moving Buttons
Hi there,

I have a series of movieclips that I have added to the screen, they are all the same size (just rectangles) and lie in a horizontal line.

What I want to do is start a rollover countdown on any of the boxes which if the mouse hovers long enough over a box its width will expand. This is working, however what is not working is that when one box expands I need the others to move out of the way to allow for the expanded boxes new width.

All of the boxes belong to the same parent movie clip, I know how to make the boxes move out of the way, but only by adjusting each boxes x value individually. There has to be a more efficient way of doing this, the only way that springs to mind is to adjust the parent of all the boxes that need to move to the left. This would then allow me to move this clip which would in turn move all the boxes out of the way.

Any thoughts would be great,

Thanks.

Nathan

Moving Buttons
I'm pretty much an amateur with Flash, and I want to make a button in the shape of a tentacle that swishes when mouseover. I drew a tentacle as a movieclip, then separated it out into individual movie clips, and turned the whole thing into a button. So I've got a button made up of movie clips.

Ok, next I animated the individual pieces and I've got it how I want it. But when I test it, it only plays the first frame, and the second if I click. I want it to keep looping through the whole thing until it's clicked or the mouse is taken off it, but I have no idea how to do it.

Here's my terrible attempt:

http://www.nagrom.org.uk/rob/website borders.fla

Help With Moving Buttons
I am totally new with flash. I am using the following tutorial which I believe I followed correctly. http://www.flash-game-design.com/flash-tutorials/advWebsite-flash-tutorial.html
I have edited the site just a bit adding my own graphics and colors. The problem is that when you first view the site all the buttons stay in the up position. Once you click each one once, they function properly. Here is the script that I have.

stop()
content.gotoAndStop("home")
current = menu.home_button
setMove = true;
yMove = -10
menu.home_button.onPress = function(){
if(this != current){
current._y = 0
setMove = true
content.gotoAndStop("home")
current = this
}
}
menu.league_button.onPress = function(){
if(this != current){
current._y = 0
setMove = true
content.gotoAndStop("league")
current = this
}
}
menu.photos_button.onPress = function(){
if(this != current){
current._y = 0
setMove = true
content.gotoAndStop("photos")
current = this
}
}
menu.downloads_button.onPress = function(){
if(this != current){
current._y = 0
setMove = true
content.gotoAndStop("downloads")
current = this
}
}
menu.forum_button.onPress = function(){
if(this != current){
current._y = 0
setMove = true
content.gotoAndStop("forum")
current = this
}
}
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(setMove){
if(yMove < current._y){
current._y --

}else{
setMove = false
}
}

}

Also here is a link to the actual site that I have published. http://67.175.252.196/New%20Site/Test%20Website.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Moving Buttons
Hey

I've created a mc with some buttons in it. It's a MC that should move when you roll your mouse over it. It has all sorts of different buttons but when I roll over the mc it moves to the right. Some kind of rolling panel. So the panel rolls out and you are supposed to be able to click on the buttons on the panel. But when the panel rolls out you can't click the buttons anymore. The code I used to make the panels + buttons move:

ActionScript Code:
on (rollOver) { gotoAndPlay(2);}on (rollOut) { gotoAndPlay(16);}

So can anyone help me?

Moving Buttons...
Hi guys,

I came across the following website:

http://www.benji.hu/assive/

I really like the site in general, but particularly the navigation and transition between the various pages. I'm attempting to create something similar, but was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to how it was done? I can't figure out how each button knows where to relocate itself once another button has been clicked.

Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers, Chris

Moving Buttons?
Hm, say I have a "sidebar" that scrolls onto the Flash canvas from the right side using the following:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this._x = 681;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._x>521) {
this._x -= 5;
}
}
At the moment, it is an empty sidebar. Is there any way to create a "moving" button that moves onto the screen simultaneously with the sidebar?

Moving Buttons
hi everybody!
i'd like to know how to make buttons move in the direction the mouse is moved.
like this site:

http://www.sydneyblu.com/

i was playing with this code, but still I do not obtain the wished effect:

ActionScript Code:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
mc1.onRollOver=function(){
var tw1:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_x", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._x, this._x+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw2:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_y", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._y, this._y+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
var tw3:Tween = new Tween(mc1, "_rotation", mx.transitions.easing.Bounce.easeOut, this._rotation, this._rotation+30*Math.random(), 3, true);
}

i guess it isn't difficult, but i don't know so much actionsript.

thanx in advance, i hope you can help me...

cheers!

Moving Buttons
i had a previous post by the same name but i didnt get my problem solved so..., i need to make a menu like on www.fontsforflash.com exept i want it to tell movie clips to play rather than having the actuall buttons move with x and y commands, understand, i hope so

Moving Buttons
i am trying to make a navigation menu for the site im working on, i want it to have buttons that move when clicked on similar to the menu on fontsforflash.com but dont know much about actionscript further than i need it, if you know how to do this, please drop me a line, thanks

Layer Where Buttons Are Moving Under It
I am sure this is a quick fix.

I have made a site where I have some buttons in the middle of the page. Then I have made at news drop down which goes over the buttons in the middel. My problem is that I want to be able to move the cursor around inside my news drop down without the buttons underneath moving because the cursor is over them. I cant see the buttons when the drop down is on, but the cursor react anyway. What do I do?

I am sorry if this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it

Tx

Jan

Randomly Moving Buttons
can anyone tell me how to make objects move slowly and randomly around the screen. I want to use them as menu buttons.

thanks

BUTTONS WON'T STOP MOVING
ok I have some flash buttons on my site, but everytime someone enters the site they are supposd to fly in and set there. But instead when they fly in they start over and LOOP. So when you want them to stop you have to right click and click loop. How can I make them not automattically load in loop?
If you are confused on what i am talking about then go to: http://www.kingofshred.cjb.net

How To Control A Moving Mc With Buttons
I have a mc which is moving from right to left continuously by reducing _x value.

I want to control this moving mc with buttons. Like stopping, playing, move back, move forward.

If there is no action by user on buttons, the mc should continuously move from right to left.

any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

hkhyd

Moving Buttons (Flash 5)
Hi,

What im looking to be able to do is have buttons animating across the screen, which, when rolled over will stop and animate.

eg. picture little circles floating across the screen. When the user rolls over any one of them... that circle will just stop. There will then be a little animation while the mouse is over (i.e. a name of button appearing). Once the user rolls off the circle the animation closes and the circle continues on its floating path.

I hope this is explained well enough.

I have a rough idea how this may work, however i am wondering if anyone can point me to a tutorial they feel may help me. Or if anyone can help me.

regards
Spiderman

Buttons That Keep A MC Moving During OnPress?
Ok, I have a MC that I want to move back and forth with some buttons. But I want them to keep moving if you hold the button down and stop when you release. I can seem to think of how to do this..anyone got any ideas?

Code:
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
sliderbox1_mc.loadMovie("product cards/slider_test.swf");
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}

leftbtn_mc.onPress = function() {
sliderbox1_mc._x += 15;
}

rightbtn_mc.onPress = function() {
sliderbox1_mc._x -= 15;
}

Thanks,
Ward

MOVING IMAGES With Buttons
Hi.. I'm sure this question has probly been answered before but I was wondering how to make an image move to the left or to the right with a click of a button... for example if there was one long HORIZONTAL image... how could I make it so that once I clik a button the image will scroll from one side to the other...
IF ANYONE COULD HELP ME WITH THIS I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.

P.S: I know how to do this with Tweens.. I was wondering how to do it with actionscripting

I am going to be using this effect for the "ALBUMS" part of this website
COLD4LIFE RECORDS

Moving Buttons Around W/o Activating
I am a newbie -- Flash student that is having trouble remembering what I learned in Flash a few classes ago. I'll be posting a few VERY BASIC questions.

1st off, what am i doing that is making my buttons active when I try to move them in my flash file? I have another version of the file that allows me to select the buttons and move them around on the stage, but then this latest version I saved won't allow me to select and move becasue it's acting like the button is active.

A humble thanks to you.

Moving A Jpg With The Arrow Buttons?
Hey, I have this jpg of a map that's just too large to use as a whole, so I want to encorporate the use of the arrow buttons to navigate. Right now my actionscript is

on(keyPress "<Left>") {
_root.map_mc._x=+5;
}

Basically the same code for all 4 buttons with exception to x & y and + & -.
The image does move but only once in each direction. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

[MX] Creating Moving Buttons
Hello Everyone,
I'm beginning to learn actionscripting right now and I've been struggling to create the following animation. I have 5 large buttons in the middle of the screen. When I press the left-most button it should slide all the way to the left while the others will slide all the way to the right. How could I accomplish this? I attempted inserting the buttons into movie clips but even then it didnt work so well. Appreciate any help.

[CS3] Moving Movieclip With Buttons
Hi all

I'm using Adobe Flash CS3 / ActionScript 2 to develop a site, the relevant part of which can be seen at http://www.pcmt.org/hidden/testsite/test.html

The black boxes underneath the 2x4 grid of icons are placeholder graphics for left and right arrows which move the icons above to the left and right.

The left and right buttons work, after a fashion, but I'm having difficulty controlling the motion.

As each button is pressed, I want to reveal one more layer of icons, and have the scrolling stop when the end of the list is reached. At the moment, one can use the buttons to scroll the icons off the screen.

Secondly, if the left / right buttons are clicked in very quick succession, the icons above do not display correctly - they're no longer centred in the mask above. Is it possible to have the buttons 'ignore' any clicks whilst the icons above are moving, thus ensuring that the icons always display correctly?

Finally, is it possible to have the left/right button disappear as appropriate when the left/right hand end of the menu is reached?

Here's the code I've been using to control the motion:

shirt_graphics._x=247;
shirt_graphics.onEnterFrame=function(){
cX=this._x;
difX=cX-XPos;
setProperty(this, _x, cX-(difX/2));
}
left_arrow.onRelease=function(){
XPos=cX+86;
}
right_arrow.onRelease=function(){
XPos=cX-86;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Standard

Tooltips For Moving Buttons
Hi all, I am trying to add tooltips on mouse-over to moving buttons (the buttons are movie clips acting as buttons). It works at first, but when the movie clips enter the second motion tween they start blinking as the movie clips start to play all four frames that I have given to them (for highlighted and selected). It seems like my tooltip has cancelled out the stop part of goToAndStop()â€¦ If I click on a movie clip when it is blinking it stops blinking and goes back to the default state, but then nothing else work (i.e. highlighting, selecting).

Does anyone recognize this and have any tips on how to solve it? I have tried to solve this for days and Iâ€™m sure itâ€™s really simple but I am totally new to Actionscript and completely lostâ€¦ I would appreciate any kind of help :)

Moving A Movieclip With Buttons
Hi all

I'm using Adobe Flash CS3 / ActionScript 2 to develop a site, the relevant part of which can be seen at http://www.pcmt.org/hidden/testsite/test.html

The black boxes underneath the 2x4 grid of icons are placeholder graphics for left and right arrows which move the icons above to the left and right.

The left and right buttons work, after a fashion, but I'm having difficulty controlling the motion.

As each button is pressed, I want to reveal one more layer of icons, and have the scrolling stop when the end of the list is reached. At the moment, one can use the buttons to scroll the icons off the screen.

Secondly, if the left / right buttons are clicked in very quick succession, the icons above do not display correctly - they're no longer centred in the mask above. Is it possible to have the buttons 'ignore' any clicks whilst the icons above are moving, thus ensuring that the icons always display correctly?

Finally, is it possible to have the left/right button disappear as appropriate when the left/right hand end of the menu is reached?

Here's the code I've been using to control the motion:

shirt_graphics._x=247;
shirt_graphics.onEnterFrame=function(){
cX=this._x;
difX=cX-XPos;
setProperty(this, _x, cX-(difX/2));
}
left_arrow.onRelease=function(){
XPos=cX+86;
}
right_arrow.onRelease=function(){
XPos=cX-86;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Standard

Moving To Next Scene Without Buttons
can anyone help me.. i want to go from one scene to another without using buttons or any clicking...
i thought gotoAndPlay("scene 2",1); would work but that has to have a handler.. please help...

Buttons In A Moving Movieclip
Hi sorry to ask this as it is probably very easy.

I am trying to create a menu system for a web site in Flash MX 2004, it is going to be a series of coloured bars with a button on each which will take you to diiferent parts of the site.

Each bar is a movieclip, which has a button embed in it, this all works fine if the bars are left static, you can navigate ronud the site. However I would like the bars to slide in from the side of the screen. I can get the movement to work, but once I move the bars the buttons stop responding.

Any Ideas??

Moving Buttons?

hey peeps,How would I make a moving button stop moving when the mouse is over the button? I know this is sample I'm having a brain freeze...help please..ck

hey peeps,

How would I make a moving button stop moving when the mouse is over the button? I know this is sample I'm having a brain freeze...help please..ck