Re: FLASH: Animated button, again.

[John Croteau]

Hi Sonia,


> I solved my problem using the tell target action instead of animating the

> button,  but I still don't know why I didn't get it to work the other way.

> - when assigning the button's states, I inserted a keyframe in all four of

> them, and in the over state I dropped the mc onto where I wanted it to play.

> - in the button's editing mode, I did not see the mc after dropping it, all I

> could see was a white square. But it was there, or so told me the inspector.

> - when I exported and tested the final movie, nothing happened.


I uploaded an FLA for a simple button with a dropin movie clip.

ftp://206.107.180.51/MCinButton/      MC_Sample.fla


Movie Clips used this way have to be free running and they will only

work when the state of the button they are in, is active.


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